The Tattler "Tales from the Farm"
June Candle Winner is mpkilbourn@yahoo.com	June, 2002  Vol. 2,  No.6

in this issue Sale on our 9 inch Cylinder Pillar and our Large Ball Candle!! Swarm Season, Spring Check, Raising Queens & June honey recipe! Spring Frost!   Major Damage This Time! T-Corks! More Winemaking Contests! Comments/Questions/Recipes From Our Readers June candle winner is = mpkilbourn@yahoo.com Sale on our 9 inch Cylinder Pillar and our Large Ball Candle!! 9 inch Cylinder Pillar List Price: $23.50 Sale Price: $18.80 Large Ball Candle List Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $12.75 ************* On Sale through May & June Free Votives with orders over $25 - click for information! *************** WIN A FREE PAIR OF 9 INCH HAND DIPPED BEESWAX CANDLES! Every month we have a drawing from our e-mail list and then mail out a free pair of candles to the lucky winner. ABSOLUTELY FREE!! (If you are receiving this message you are on our list and may soon win 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 free bushel of grapes if you also subscribe to our September Weekly Picking Update. Tell your friends to SUBSCRIBE NOW and have a chance to WIN!! 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.   Find out more....

Greetings Honey, Candles & Grape Enthusiasts! 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. This is not Walmart - This is a family farm! This is the June 2002 issue of our monthly newsletter. Through our web site you can purchase candles and honey products throughout the year. To view past issues of our newsletter, please visit our Newsletter Archive. If you do not wish to receive our monthly newsletter please visit the "edit subscription link" at the bottom of the page to be removed from our mailing list.   Swarm Season, Spring Check, Raising Queens & June honey recipe!    It is the swarm season. Here is a picture of a nice swarm that landed very high up in an apple tree near my honey house. It was too high to capture so I hope that it moves into one of my empty storage supers nearby. Our spring colony check is a very important part of the bee year. Weak colonies are made stronger by taking frames of brood from strong colonies & given to the weaker ones. The rest of the story ..... June honey recipes - Honey Bread Try this - its great ..... Spring Frost!   Major Damage This Time! T-Corks! More Winemaking Contests!    A cold and late spring has reduced our crop and will cause it to ripens slightly later, although the vine still goes on. Here is a picture of a DeChaunac flower cluster. The rest of the story .......... Recent Experience with "T- Corks"    I have been bottling wine for quite a while with "T-Corks". They are cheap, easy to install & remove. I started using them because I was real busy and I could persuade my daughters to bottle wine for me. The rest of the story ..... Enter your wine in winemaking contests.  I have additional information regarding winemaking contests. Many of our customers have won in the past.   Details ..... More pictures of Cayuga and her friends DeChaunac & Delaware Grape Recipe for June - Grape and Green Tomato Chutney    Click here for recipe ..... Comments/Questions/Recipes From Our Readers    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? Click here to send me a message. Cylinders, farm improvements, Concords, Queen rearing, naturally granulated honey. Click here to visit our "From our Readers" Page June candle winner is = mpkilbourn@yahoo.com    Congratulations! June candle winner is  = mpkilbourn@yahoo.com Click here for the full list of winners!

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