Holiday Special Priced Items
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Pilgrim Boy & Girl set
List Price: $13.95
Special Price: $11.15
New 12.5 inch Cylinder Pillar
List Price: $29.30
Special Price: $ 23.50
Lords Supper Candle
List Price: $24.95
Special Price: $19.95
11 Piece Nativity Set
List Price: $74.95
Special Price: $67.50
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Special pricing through
November & December
Complimentary votive's 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 |
| A few notes about our format:
Although our newsletter has a "overview"
of every article in the issue,
a recent survey has shown us that we have two distinct
and separate interest groups, a grape and winemaking
group and a honey and candle group.
Many of the articles in this newsletter have
all the text included but sometimes, due to the length,
we need to continue the article on a separate page on
our website.
We have developed our
"Vineyard Report"
and our
"Candle/Honeyfarm Report"
to conform to the specific interests of our readers.
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Candle Dipping
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Wicks for 6 pairs of candles are on a frame and dipped into hot
wax.
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6 pairs of candles half finished.
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The frame is split in half & only 3 pairs are now dipped.
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The candles are hanging in a rack to cool between dips.
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| "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself
a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become
unstable without knowing it."
Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
The Quotations Page |
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Greetings!
Happy Holidays
from Honeyflow Farm.
This is
our Holiday issue of our newsletter that is sent to
our regular readers and doe this month only, our Lapeer
County Concert Choir Readers.
Our monthly newsletter
will keep you up to date on farm activities as they
occur.
In answering questions and in
preparing this newsletter our newsletter archive has become a valuable source
of material. It may answer many of the questions
you have about honey, candles, wine making or about
our farm.
Click here to view past issues of our newsletter.
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This Month in the Candle Shop |
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Christmas at Honeyflow Farm, Bloom or No Bloom, The Christmas
Stocking
5 New Items
this Christmas Season!
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| These Huge Triple Wick Cylinders are 6 inches
wide by 3 or 6 inches tall. These are very large candles - the biggest
on our site - the 6 inch one has 5.25 lbs of beeswax!
Small Triple Wick = $22.95
Large Triple Wick = $37.95
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These are 2 new Christmas Ball Scene Candles - one with a Fireplace scene and one with a Cabin on
the Road scene. They have 1.75 lbs of beeswax
in them. About the size of our Large Ball Candles.
Fireplace scene = $14.95
Cabin on Road scene = $14.95 |
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This 3.5 inch wide x 12.5 inch tall pillar is one of the
largest of our cylinder pillars.
Our cylinder pillars are wider than pillars on other sites (most are only 3 inches wide) and are hand made with old
fashioned style metal molds rather than the newer
3 inch plastic molds. It takes at least 24 hours
of pouring, cooling & manipulation to create
just one of these candles. A larger square braided
wick is used in our cylinder pillars allowing the
proper amount of wax to be fed to the flame. With
this process we end up with a larger and longer
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Click here for our Holiday Catalog
Click here for our Complete Catalog
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Bloom or No Bloom
We have been having a lot of discussion in our family
this year regarding the bloom on our candles.
Bloom is the dusty looking substance
that grows on the surface of beeswax candles. It is
a naturally occuring substance that appears after they
have been aged for a period of time. It
is desired by many people as it gives the candle a very
"antique" look and only beeswax will develop it.
If desired, it may be rubbed off with a soft cloth or
removed by the gentle heat of a hair dryer.
At Honeyflow Farm we usually let the bloom
grow naturally, except for our Nativity figurines and our Christmas Tree ornaments.
On our Nativity sets and Christmas tree
ornaments the candles are dipped in a "candle luster"
solution that seals, protects and hardens the surface
of the candle to prevent dust, fingerprints and it
really brings out any detail on the candle.
(click on image for a larger view)
The above picture shows two different candles with
and without the candle luster.
However, many people prefer the more natural look
with the bloom.
I would prefer to dip any candle that has a decorative
picture on it in the waterbase
sealer and let the tapers and pillars have the natural
bloom on it, but the rest of my family disagrees -
So we would like your input.
What do you think?
Please click on our very quick survey:
The Christmas Stocking
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with
care in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be
there."
There was a kindly nobleman whose wife had died
of an illness leaving the nobleman and his three
daughters in despair. After losing all his money
in useless and bad inventions the family had to
move into a peasants cottage, where the daughters
did their own cooking, sewing and cleaning.
When it came time for the daughters to marry,
the father became even more depressed as his daughters
could not marry without dowries, money and property
given to the new husband's family.
One night after the daughters had washed out their
clothing they hung their stockings over the fireplace
to dry. That night Saint Nicholas, knowing the despair
of the father, stopped by the nobleman's house.
Looking in the window Saint Nicholas saw that the
family had gone to bed, He also noticed the daughters
stockings. Inspiration struck Saint Nicholas and
he took three small bags of gold from his pouch
and threw them one by one down the chimney and they
landed in the stockings.
The next morning when the daughters awoke they
found their stockings contained enough gold for
them to get married. The nobleman was able to see
his three daughters marry and he lived a long and
happy life.
Children all over the world continue the tradition
of hanging Christmas stockings. In some countries
children have similar customs, in France the children
place their shoes by the fireplace, a tradition
dating back to when children wore wooden peasant
shoes.
In Holland the children fill their shoes with
hay and a carrot for the horse of Sintirklass. In
Hungary children shine their shoes before putting
them near the door or a window sill.
Italian children leave their shoes out the night
before Epiphany, January 5, for La Befana the good
witch. And in Puerto Rico children put greens and
flowers in small boxes and place them under their
beds for the camels of the Three Kings.
You can still download
our new 30
page catalog with over 90 images.
It has every item sold on our site. This pdf file
can be saved on your computer. You can print the catalog
and order through the US Mail if you wish, although
it is still much easier to do it on line.
Download
the New Candle Catalog
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This Month in the Vineyard |
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Vineyard is closed for
season, High acid wines, New Magazine, 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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Reduction of Acidity with Calcium or Potassium Carbonate
We have had some questions lately about high
acid wines. This season in the vineyard was very late
and we had some problems with higher acidity musts.
This is some information from Presque Isle Wine Cellars
that is included in the package when you purchase
acid reducing chemicals.
1) Musts with total acidity (expressed as tartaric
acid) above 1.2% may produce wines too high in acidity
for most people to enjoy. Such musts will benefit from
either the addition of water to dilute the acidity (added
as a 20% sugar solution before fermentation) or by chemical
reduction of acidity with calcium carbonate or potassium
bicarbonate (or potassium carbonate). Amelioration with
sugar and water is preferred where you have high flavor
intensity (especially with eastern varieties such as
Concord, Catawba, Niagara and Delaware), but are not
concerned with body. The amount of reduction will be
approximately the percent of volume increase (ie. 1
gallon added to 9 gallons juice = 1/9 or .11% reduction).
The rest of the article .....
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New Magazine that might
be of interest:
Uncorked! Magazine
Uncorked! Magazine is published monthly, and marketed
to a national audience. Regular features include Epistles
From the Vineyard (reviews of wine books and cookbooks),
Life as It Should Be Lived (reviews of restaurants around
the U.S.), Life As It Is (wine in the supermarket),
Ask The Sommelier (readers write in with etiquette questions),
Out Of The Frying Pan (recipes and food-and-wine pairing),
along with comprehensive coverage of the world of wine.
Initial issues have included tasting notes and ratings
on California, Spain, Bordeaux 2000 and Australia.
Uncorked! Magazine
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December grape recipe - Breast Of Pheasant With Grapes & Pine
Nuts
The recipe .....
This
Month in the Vineyard
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This Month at the Honey Farm |
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Honey harvest
completed, Free Book, Questions on what heat does to honey, December Honey Recipe
Honey harvest completed -
Yields down, Prices up and our
honey is a little darker this year.
We finally finished extracting all the crop for this
year and we find that the supply in our area is somewhat
short this year. I like to have it all finished by Thanksgiving
and with the help of a local youth, Eric Fisher, we
finished it.
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Merry Christmas From Honeyflow Farm - Free copy
of "101 Things to do with Honey" by Elizabeth
Cole to the first 10 people that request it - email me here and request one.
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We still
have had more questions on what heat does to honey
so we added to the information we had in a past article.
What honey do we sell at our farm?
Raw & unprocessed? Unfiltered Wildflower?
Pasteurized ?
The complete article .....
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December Honey Recipe -
Honey Bread
Richard C. Bloom, Grand Blanc Michigan
This recipe was given to my parents by a Belgian
couple (Truck gardeners who lived near Selfrigde Field)
in the Mid 1930's. We make at least one batch in time
to be ready to eat at Christmas and often will make
another later.
It is a good way to use up left-over coffee, but it
can be made with strong instant coffee also. It is very
important that you follow the instructions about the
lining in the pan and the ripening of the bread after
the baking. The pans are bread loaf size. We use the
smaller size as this gives more top sides.
The recipe .......
This
Month at the Honey Farm
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Lapeer County Concert Choir Annual Christmas Concert |
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Lapeer County Concert
Choir Annual Christmas Concert
(Why is this here? - I also sing in this choir
- it's great - come hear us if you are in town.)
Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi (1678- 1741),
was an Italian music composer who lived during
a period of art commonly known as the Baroque era. Vivaldi
was trained for the priesthood and ordained in 1703
but soon after his ordination ceased to say Mass. He
lived in Venice and taught music at an all-girls orphanage
for most of his life.
We will be performing The Vivaldi
Gloria on Saturday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. at Trinity
United Methodist Church in Lapeer, Sunday, December
7 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in
Imlay City, and Saturday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m.at
North Branch Wesleyan Church in North Branch.
A portion of the program will include more traditional
selections such as The Little Drummer Boy and Silent
Night.
Lapeer
County Concert Choir
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From our readers |
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This
is a section for comments/questions/recipes from our
readers. Please read the comments & feel
free to put your 2 cents worth in.
Visit the Readers Comments page to view all the content of these
messages. Here are samples of this months e-mails:
Do the 6.5 tapers fit standard candle stick holder?
•• What
type of wicks do you use? ••
Moving grapevines ••
Growing grapes in Florida •• Is
your honey raw? •• Substituting
honey for sugar ••
I would like to purchase some of your exquisite
candles for my holiday list but I do not have a credit
card.
The
"From our Readers" Page
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Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
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Congratulations! December candle w*nner is:
yankee6161@yahoo.com
Will this months w*nner,
yankee6161@yahoo.com
please contact us and
so that I can ship your candles.
Our list of previous candle w*nners.
Click below for something
silly to end this newsletter with.
See You Next Month!
Laugh
of the month: A new take on an old song.
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