Sale on our Pilgrim set & 12 Inch Deluxe Tapers
Pilgrim Boy & Girl Set
List Price: $13.95
Sale Price: $ 11.15
One Pair of 12 inch Hand-dipped Tapers
List Price: $7.50
Sale Price: $6.00
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Special
Pricing through
November & December
Complimentary Votives with orders over $25
One
Pair of 9 Inch Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles are Mailed out
Each Month to someone on our Mailing List.
(If
you are receiving this message you are on our list and may
soon receive a pair of candles) Tell your friends about our
farm. All they have to do is to subscribe to our monthly on-line
newsletter. In addition, every week in September we will also
be giving away a bushel of grapes if you also subscribe to
our September Weekly Picking Update.
Tell
your friends to SUBSCRIBE NOW!
We
also encourage you to send this page to other friends by clicking
here and resending a copy of this newsletter from our newsletter
archive.
Send these gift boxes to your Christmas List.
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Decorate
your Tree
with Beeswax this year!
Set of 4 larger ornaments $12.60
Set of 6 smaller ornaments $7.85
Find
out more....
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Greetings!
Direct
from the farm!
(click here for printer
friendly page)
That
is the theme at Honeyflow Farm. In September, if
you visit our farm roadside market, you can pick from
more than 20 varieties of grapes! You can fill
your containers with honey from a 55 gallon barrel!
You can purchase candles made from pure beeswax!
If you come to our farm & happen to see some
guy standing around with a camera talking about bees, grapes, winemaking & candles - this would be
me. If you purchase candles or honey from our website you will know that this is not like
doing business with an impersonal major retailer.
We are a family farm!
Our
farm is only open September to Mid October -- but our
website is open all year! At our Candle
Shop you can purchase candles and honey products
any time you wish.
To
view past issues of our newsletter, please visit
our Newsletter Archive.
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Make
this a Beeswax Christmas!
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The
holiday candle season is just around the corner and
we have some new things this year. A new 11 piece
beeswax nativity set that can be ordered as one complete
set, individually or in groups. More details....
Our
gift boxes shown on the left can be mailed directly
to your Christmas list if you desire along with a custom
printed card. Just send us your gift list & we do
all the rest. Details ......
We
have created a new "Custom Shipping Page" on our site that allows us to do more things that were not easily
done on the "automated" part of our Candle
Catalog. If you do not see combinations of candles or
gift boxes that you would like, let us know & we
can put one together. This page makes it easy for us
to ship parts of your order to your residence and various
other people. Do all your Christmas shopping form your
computer this year!
Our Baby Bear candle (shown above) is an
ideal stocking stuffer.
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December
at the Honey Farm, Yellow Jackets
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We
finally finished removing and extracting our honey crop.
I really like to get the job all done by Thanksgiving
so that we can keep up with our Christmas Candle orders.
I
am always getting questions from people about yellow
jackets. Quite often they confuse yellow jackets
(wasps) with honeybees. We are often asked if all the
"bees" in the vineyard produce our honey &
I remind them that they are not honeybees at all but
yellow jackets. I tell them that they are as different
as dogs & cats. Here is some information
on yellow jackets ......
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December
Honey recipe - Honey Bread for Christmas
click here for
the recipe.....
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December
in the Vineyard, MSU Course in Viticulture & Enology,
New Grape Growing Book, December Grape Recipe
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Not
much happening in the vineyard in December. The
leaves are completely off the vines and they are ready
for winter. Due to a light crop load this year and everything
getting picked well before we had a hard freeze, the
vines should have matured properly and be ready for
winter.
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MSU
Course in Viticulture & Enology
Our
interest in this program was started last year when
one of the MSU students, Bernard Call, who is taking
this program purchased some grapes at our farm and was
measuring the brix of the grapes with a refractometer.
The following year he returned to our farm after being
in the program for one year and he was very enthusiastic,
interesting and knowledgeable.
Sandy
Paetz who graciously decided to help us sell grapes
one day a week had also started the MSU course in Enology.
There were some very interesting discussions between
the three of us about what they are studying at MSU.
These conversations convinced me that this is a very
worthwhile program and these two gentleman have been
very helpfull in giving us an insiders view of this
course.
The
studies will prepare the student to work in a commercial
vineyard or winery dealing with grapes grown in
cooler climates such as in Michigan.
Our
farm has a slightly different focus than a typical commercial
vineyard that grows grapes for a winery. My interest
has always been in home winemaking, selling grapes to
home winemakers and not being a commercial winery. Our
20 plus varieties of grapes gives our winemaking customers
lots of room for experimentation - and thats what makes
winemaking a craft. The rest of the story .....
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This
looks like an interesting site and the book may make
a nice Christmas present:
Announcing
"The Grape Grower".
Written from a combination of nearly 40 years of personal
experience, university training, and information from
growers worldwide, this is a long-overdue book on grape
growing that is thorough, hands-on, with an organic
approach, and covering more practical information than
any other on the market today. Details ........
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December
Grape Recipe - Apricot Sorbet - Eva Braganini -
Serving size 4
(Recipe is re-printed with permission from St. Julian's Website)
The recipe .......
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The
Lapeer County Concert Choir
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The
Concert Choir is another project that Honeyflow Farm
supports. If you live in Michigan you will have
a fantastic oportunity to hear some great music.
This
Christmas we are performing selected choruses from the
Messiah for the centerpiece of our 35th Christmas season.
We will have concerts on December 7, 8 and 14. Additional
selections such as “Go Tell It On The Mountain”,
“The Birthday of a King” and “O Holy
Night” arranged by John Rutter will also be performed.
Please
go to the choir website at www.orgsites.com/mi/concert- choir
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Comments/Questions/Recipes
From Our Readers
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This
is a new section for Comments/Questions/Recipes from our
readers. Please read the comments & feel free
to put your 2 cents worth in. We had some questions on
wine & honey vinegar - are there any vinegar makers
reading this? Please send me your comments..
Melting
beeswax, Beekeeping supplies, Is the farm open to browse
the items or is it just orders from the Internet, Any
stores in the West Palm Beach? Yellow jackets, different
qualities of 100% beeswax, Wine via internet?
Visit our "From
our Readers" Page
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December
Candle W*nner is = da_ploy@zwallet.com & Laugh of the
Month
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Congratulations!
December candle w*nner is, da_ploy@zwallet.com
Please send us your address so that I can ship
your candles.
Laugh of the Month: Buggin You! - Just a silly
thing to end this newsletter with.
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