Honeyflow Farm Blog
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The Scent of Beeswax
Everyone loves the scent of beeswax. Magical and Mysterious. It cleans and freshens the air and it is made from the nectar of flowers.
In addition to the Warm Natural Scent we have many different scented beeswax candles at Honeyflow Farm.
We have candles scented with Essential Oils and also Fragrance Oils.
Pure Essential Oils are more natural and expensive but the scent is much stronger.
+ Niagara grape wine is one of my favorite white wines. It is easy to harvest (the clusters are big and juicy), and easy to make wine from. I Think of it as a Eastern version of Moscato. (AND WE HAVE A LOT OF IT AVAILABLE - 12 - 400ft rows - over 1 acre.) It has a very nice grapey flavor (think Welches white grape juice)...
Marechal Foch, Frontenac and DeChaunac are our main wine grapes - along with Concord for the Concord Wine lovers. + Marechal Foch - Small clusters of black, medium sized berries. Outstanding burgundy type red wine without blending . Very good quality red wines have been made from Foch at wineries in Michigan and elsewhere. This variety is ve...
Honeyflow Tattler - Our Fall 2018 Newsletter Toll Free Hotline Number - 1-888-372-3730 4939 Mill Road - Dryden, Michigan 48428 888-372-3730 (Message) 810-796-3253 (Residence) Vineyard & Honey Farm Opens August 31, 2018 Click here to view our "Timeline" and a "Farm Tour Slide Show"... Visit our Ripening up-Date for for lastest conditions... Clic...
LATE BREAKING NEWS! Honey Is On Sale UNTIL JUNE 30! OUR ANNUAL FALL HONEY SALE - IN JUNE? FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL HONEY PRODUCTS ARE ON SALE! No - the grapes are not ripe yet and vineyard is not open, but we thought we would put gallons of honey on sale on our website just like we do at our Sales Stand in September. (No quarts during this ...
American Foulbrood Treatments - New Info about Colony Collapse Disorder - New Carniolan Queens Installed
Spring is here. We just finished installing new honeybee colonies to replace winter loss. (Click on this link to see how we install package bees)
DO I NEED A VET FOR MY BEES?
When I was getting ready to check the bee yards I tried to order some Terramycin an antibiotic that beekeepers have used for the past 50 years to combat American and European Foulbrood. I found that you now need a prescription from a veterinarian to obtain it. At first I thought it was just more big brother interference in our lives - but it was to try to reduce antibiotics in our system.See: beeculture.com/do-i-need-a-vet-for-my-bees/
Mid to Late September is a great time to come to the vineyard for grapes, honey or beeswax candles. We are open only on Friday, Saturday & and Sundays until mid October this year. The season is short so take a ride to the farm this weekend. Annual Honey Sale Honey in quarts, gallons, pails or smaller containers are ready for you to pick...
Honeyflow Tattler - Our Fall 2017 Newsletter Toll Free Hotline Number - 1-888-372-3730 4939 Mill Road - Dryden, Michigan 48428 888-372-3730 (Message) 810-796-3253 (Residence) CLEANUP WEEKEND - LAST WEEKEND OPEN Late Season Update for the Weekend of Oct 20, 21 & 22 Lots of Concord and Niagara left! Pick up your Quarts & Gallons of Honey! Cli...
KEEPING BIRDS OUT OF THE VINEYARD Pat feeds the birds up at our house - we even have some nice new hummingbird feeders.We love to see birds, BUT NOT IN THE VINEYARD! The month before harvest starts is when we work on a lot of bird damage control endeavors. The birds like to peck on the grape clusters, and then wasps like to suck the juice out...
What is Ripe this Weekend? Grape Ripening Information - Find out what is ready to pick and what it will cost.
Ripening InformationClick here for the list...
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Marechal Foch, Frontenac and DeChaunac are our main wine grapes - along with Concord for the Concord Wine lovers. + Marechal Foch - Small clusters of black, medium sized berries. Outstanding burgundy type red wine without blending . Very good quality red wines have been made from Foch at wineries in Michigan and elsewhere. This variety is ve...
+ Niagara grape wine is one of my favorite white wines. It is easy to harvest (the clusters are big and juicy), and easy to make wine from. I Think of it as a Eastern version of Moscato. (AND WE HAVE A LOT OF IT AVAILABLE - 12 - 400ft rows - over 1 acre.) It has a very nice grapey flavor (think Welches white grape juice)...
The image above shows honeybee colonies with supers piled on top - continue the slide show using the arrows to see what is inside. When I start to see yellow sweet clover growing on the side of the road I know it is time to start adding honey supers to the bees. The colonies are starting to build up and the need space to put honey in. We put...
When the grapes are in bloom - It smells wonderful - a very gentle fragrance from all the blossoms. Bloom time varies a lot from Frontenac blooming earlier and the seedless grape seem to be about a week later. Scroll Through the above images . The slideshow starts with Marquis White Seedless grapes at the "Prebloom" stage - the images ad...
May in the Honeybee Yards Mid May is when we check all of our Honeybee yards. They are at various farms and orchards that also sell our honey when they are open in the fall. All the new packages that were installed are checked to see if the queen is laying eggs and usually another brood box is added for them to grow into. The wintered over colonies...
Check out these items in our Spring 2017 Newsletter A pruned grapevine ready for spring! +++ Spring Pruning in the Vineyard... +++ New program called "TimeLine" That shows what is happening every month of the year... +++ We have changed our Blog format... +++ Prices cut on gallons & pails! - IT'S FALL AT THE HONEY FARM - SA...
Beeswax Candles - Sizes Available from 3/4 inch to 6 inch in Diameter Within the past year we have increased the size options of our Beeswax Hand-Dipped Candle Series and recently added a 1 3/4 inch diameter candle for a customer. From our 6 inch tapers (3/4 inch wide) to our Beeswax Triple Wick Pillar Candles (6 inches wide), we will have somethin...
These are honeybees that we purchase to replace winter loss. Package bees were previously ordered and have just arrived in mid April to replace winter loss and add to our surviving colonies. Since we have permanent honeybee yards in various orchards, it is very important to have good colonies during bloom time in spring and summer. The image shows ...
We see when the high schools are off on Easter break and a few youths help us prune the vineyard. We had about 12+ youths available during April of 2017 to prune the vineyard. We try to prune so we have fruiting buds on the top wire. (See center image below) Click here to see more pruning images... Visit our "Year in the Vineyard" page to see vines...
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