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vineyard overview - links to grapepages
end row names pictures
links to newsletters pdf, reg tattler - resources
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Welcome to our Farm! The first thing you see when turning in is our sign. You may notice that our computer has added the "W" to Honeyflow Farm. This sign was a product of an earlier email address that has long since sense changed. If we have a really good crop this year maybe we can afford a new sign. We are open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only from September to Mid-October. Click here for directions |
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| We do not have a fancy parking lot, people just park on the side of the drive. Please do not block the drive and watch for children. |
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Most people come to our rustice sales stand first for information. The two people shown above are the owners, Bill & Pat Schnute. (Pat is the good looking one on the right!) We may not always be down at the stand, but we are usually availabe for questions about winemaking, beekeeping and candlemaking. |
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Many groups of people come out to visit us in the fall. We do not offer tours, but people bring friends, have picnics and fun. We only specialize in three kinds of products, Grapes, Honey and Beeswax Candles. Click here if you want to fast forward to the Honey and Candles section |
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Most people come to the sales stand first for information. Sometimes they have already printed out a grape ripening update sheet from our website and brought it with them. Click here for ripening info. Customers will bring all sorts of bushels, baskets, pails, garbage cans (clean) to pick their grapes into. Pruning shears work well for picking grapes. We have 1/2 bushel bags and grape harvest knives available at the vineyard. |
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We grow more than 20 varieties of grapes.
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| All the rows have a sign and row number on the end to identify them. |
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This picture shows our vineyard from above. It happens to show where the "Concord" vines are located in the vineyard. Every varieity has a map and an information page. Click here tofor details about every grape.
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After picking up information from our sale stand it is time to head out into the vineyard. Some people wander all over the place and some go right to the rows they want and get to work You pick the grapes in the vineyard and then bring them to the sales stand to get them weighed and check out. |
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| Some customers like to bring home a large sampling of table grapes. |
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| Some winemakers are very sophisticated and use a refractometer to measure the sugar levels. Most people ask us which are ripe and then taste them themselves. We always say, taste them first & if you don't like them, don't pick them. |
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| We no longer have frozen winemaking juice available, however we do have a crushing facility ready for you to use and mesh strainer bags available. You can pick and pay for your grapes and then use our crusher-destemmer to process your grapes. Make sure you bring enough pails to bring your must home in. A 5 gallon pail will hold about a 40 lb bushel of crushed grapes. |
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| Our customers will bring all sorts of bushels, baskets, plastic lug, pails, garbage cans (clean) to pick their grapes into and load in their vehicles. Make sure they are not to heavy to carry when filled (large 30+ gallon cans hold hundreds of pounds of grapes) since you must be able to bring them to the scale at our stand to be weighed. |
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No - We do not sell wine! However since most of our customers are home winemakers we always appreciate it when they bring in samples of their craft for us to taste. All of these wines are from grapes grown in our vineyard and processed by homewinemakers. Join us in this exciting and fruitful craft. |
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| We also sell bulk honey at our farm, harvested from our honeybees located at farms and orchards in the surrounding counties. |
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| Our customers bring in all sizes of containers that we fill from our bulk honey tank. We also have pre-packaged honey in different size jars. We sell comb honey, creamed (raw) honey, and cinnamon creamed honey. |
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| This is a 5 gallon pail that we filled for someone. That may last their whole season or they may be using it for Mead (Honey Wine). We have 2 gallon pails available that hold 24 lbs - a convenient size. |
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We set up a Observation Hive every year. You can safely watch the honeybees at work. Try to find the queen! Some people have asked us if this hive produces all the honey. This is just a very small miniature hive that is just for viewing. Click here for more beekeeping pictures. |
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We sell hundreds of styles of pure beeswax candles. This picture show just a few of the tapers we have available. We usually have our taper, some votives, tea lites and a few popular sizes of pillars at our small sales stand. Please go to our on line Candleshop to see everything available. If you want to order something just email us and we will make sure it is made and ready for you to pick up when you come out for grapes and honey. Or you can just order on line and we will ship it to you. |
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