Sale on our 3 inch Cylinder Pillar & 6 Pack of Natural Votives!!!!
6 Pack Natural Votives
List Price: $10.25
Sale Price: $ 8.20
3 Inch Cylindar Pillar
List Price: $10.95
Sale Price: $8.75
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On
Sale through
September & October
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.
"Picking
Update" Alert - If you subscribed to and want the weekly
picking conditions update you should soon be getting them (Only
about 4 - 5 of them) and you could also win a bushel of grapes
if you are on the list. To
subscribe go to our Communications page.
Find
out more....
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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 September 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.
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The
U-Pick Vineyard and Honey Farm is now open .Our normal
hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday - Saturday
- and Sundays only. (NO MON-TUES-WED- THURS) Click
here for details ......
New
faces at our roadside market sales stand. After many
years Barbara Wright, the smiling face at our sales stand
has finally retired (again).
I
would like to introduce 2 new people.
 Sandy Paetz will be with us on Fridays. This picture
shows him with his family and grapes that he picked last
year. Sandy is a very good winemaker and can answer many
winemaking questions on Fridays.
 Jacquelin Judd will be with us on Saturdays & Sundays.
Jacquelin may not know as much about winemaking, but
she did work in the vineyard pruning vines many years ago.
She is very active in our local Lutheran Church here in
Dryden, Michigan.
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September
in the Vineyard, Preventing Bird Damage, Our Grape Pictorial
- They are Finaly Ripe! September Grape Recipe
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"Picking
Update" Alert - If you subscribed to and want the weekly
picking conditions update you should soon be getting them
(Only about 4 - 5 of them) and you could also win a bushel
of grapes if you are on the list. To subscribe go to our Communications page.
It
is harvest time and the vineyard is now open starting Friday,
September 6.
Two years of spring frosts have created shortages of certain
varieties of grapes throughout Michigan. All corners of
the state are reporting various levels of crop damage. Although
our concord style grapes will be in great demand this year,
the french hybrid wine varieties did slightly better. Our
Season is very short and we may close early so please check
back frequently - or better yet, subscribe to our “Picking Updates” for e-mail notification. More
details ...
Birds
are a problem every year at harvest time at our vineyard.
There is no such thing as "planting a little extra
for the birds." When the birds are in the vineyard
feeding on the grapes they will peck every cluster making
them undesireable to most people, and sometimes will cause
100% crop damage. The rest
of the story .....
View
the latest pictures of our Cayuga, Delaware and DeChaunac
vines. We have been following them all season and their
grapes are almost full size now and starting to change color.
The Picture
Story.......
S eptember Grape Recipe - Red
Wine Raspberry Sorbet - Serving size 6
(Recipe is re-printed with permission from St. Julian's Website)
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The
honey harvest is just starting! Honey & Homebrewing, It's
Mead Making Time! September Honey recipe! Our Honey & Beekeeping
Pictorial is almost complete.
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The
Harvest is just starting and the Honey crop this year looks
very good! The hot weather with just enough water made
the clovers and thistles grow very good and the bees made
good use of the warm days. Bring your pails and jars &
we will fill them up.
In
September we start to take part of the honey crop off.
Usually I am busy just keeping up with honey sales at our
roadside sales stand and our wholesale outlets. After the
vineyard closes in mid October I will return to the bee
yards to take the rest of the crop off. The honey is removed
much like we harvest comb honey, with a bee blower and my
trailer. See comb honey harvest pictures ......
Our
Honey & Beekeeping Pictorial is almost complete.
See Pictures of how honey is made and harvested.
Honey
and Homebrewing - A Sweet History - From
the National Honey Board
Want to brew your own Honey Beer - Click here for details ......
If
you don't want homebrewing - Try Making Mead with Honey
- Check this site for a great recipe
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September
Honey Recipe - Kashi Carob Balls
click here
for the recipe.....
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Our
Summer Winery Tours - Warner Winery in Paw Paw Michigan,
Augusta Winery & Mt. Pleasant Winery in Augusta, Missouri.
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Pat
& I were very impressed with the wines from Warner Vineyards.
As I write this I am sipping an award winning "Solera
Cream Sherry". It is smooth and nutty tasting. Then
we tried a "Michigan Cherry" which was heavier
bodied than other Cherry wines and was almost like a red
wine (we had it with speghetti).
Three generations have made sparkling, table and dessert
wines at this Paw Paw winery, housed in a state-designated
historical structure built in 1898. See the old
world champagne-making process and then taste the wide range
of wines and champagnes. Self-guided tours include a video
and a view of the champagne aging caves. A great place to
learn more about wines and how they are made. Click here for the rest of the story ......
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Augusta Winery, located in the scenic town of Augusta
on the bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley,
is surrounded by vineyards which, since the 1800s, have
been recognized for superior wine grapes. This was the first
winery that we visited in Missouri and we brought many samples
home from this winery. The town was founded in 1836 by Leonard
Harold, one of Daniel Boone's followers to St. Charles County,
and became settled by predominantly German homesteaders.
The rest of the story ....
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Mount Pleasant Winery in August Missouri, is
a very large winery that any tourist in the area will enjoy
visiting. It is America's first designated wine
district. Augusta was awarded this honor three years
before Napa Valley (Napa Valley is number two). In order
to label a wine as Augusta wine, 85% of the grapes used
for production must have been grown within the boundaries
of the Augusta wine district. Today, Mount Pleasant is the
dominant grower of grapes in the Augusta Appellation with
over 51,000 vines. Click here for more details .....
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Sandra
Silfven's Wine Website & Winemaker Magazine Website
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Here
are some great articles from Sandra Silfven's Wine Website
at the Detroit News:
A guide to the main grape varieties grown in Michigan
Want
to learn more about winemaking as a career in Michigan?
Take a look at this: Michigan State University's 2-year wine program is
the first of its kind in the eastern U.S.
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I
also found some very usefull articles on the Winemaker Magazine
website. They are very applicable to winemaking at this
time of the year:
How Sweet It Is: Chaptalization - Winemaker Magazine by Jeff Chorniak - Is
your wine missing something in the mouth? Does it need more
body? If so, it may be that your wine's alcohol level is
too low -- and one way to correct that problem is to add
some sugar to your must or juice before fermentation. The
practice is called chaptalization, and from France to the
United States and beyond, it's more common than you might
think!
Malo-lactic fermentation and its impact on acidity for red wines? - Winemaker
Magazine
Wine Makers Log Chart - Download this usefull chart from Winemaker Magazine
to record winemaking information.
Measuring Residual Sugar: Techniques - Winemaker Magazine - by Daniel
Pambianchi - Apr, 2002 - How to measure the residual sugar
content of your wine.
Honey in a Glass - Brew Your Won Magazine
- March, 2002 - by Joe O'Neal - How to make a batch
of mead, a classic fermented beverage that's been around
- and been enjoyed - for at least six thousand years. With
simple recipes, step-by-step instructions and a guide to
different kinds of honey, from clover to orange blossom
and tupelo.
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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? Click here to send me a message.
Wax
dolls, Baco Noir juice, What types do you have?
Making jelly and jam from purple grapes, "honey
powder" , Bees wax for leather
and timber, Pick and hold 700lbs of concord,
More grape jelly, Beeswax
to use making my lotions and creams, DeChanunac
and Cayuga White, I am the august candle
winner!!!!
Click here to visit
our "From our Readers" Page
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September
candle winner is = dennisschaaf@home.com
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Congratulations!
September candle winner is = dennisschaaf@home.com
Click
here for the full list of winners!
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