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June Candle W*nner: stacey@getconn.com	June, 2003 Vol 3, No. 6

in this issue Monthly Special Priced Items New Candle Catalog to Download and Print This Month in the Vineyard This Month at the Honey Farm From our readers Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month Monthly Special Priced Items Special price this month on our 6 pack of Rose Votives and our Hound Dog Pillar Hound Dog Pillar List Price: $11.50 Special Price: $9.20 6 Pack of Rose Votives List Price: $10.25 Special Price: $ 8.20   ************* Special pricing through March & April 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   Candle Dipping at Honeyflow Farm Wicks for 6 pairs of candles are on a frame and dipped into hot wax.   6 pairs of candles half finished. The frame is split in half & only 3 pairs are now dipped.   The candles are hanging in a rack to cool between dipps.   The finished product.   5 lb Un-processed Honey - $13.00 Have one shipped to you.   "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln The Quotations Page Visit our Candle Shop

Greetings! Greetings from Honeyflow Farm. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up to date on farm activities as they occur. Although the U-Pick part of our farm is only open September to Mid October - our website is open all year!   At our Candle Shop you can purchase candles and honey products any time you wish. 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, winemaking or about our farm. Click here to view past issues of our newsletter. Click here to view last years June 2002 Newsletter.   A few notes about this newsletter: 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. New Candle Catalog to Download and Print    Many people have asked us to send them a catalog and in the past we did not have one. We have now created a 30 page catalog with over 90 images. It has every item sold on our site. This pdf file can be downloaded to your computer. You can now 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 This Month in the Vineyard    New vines & grow tubes, Grape buds are growing, MSU course in viticulture, Interesting articles to check out. As we mentioned last month we were busy planting new vines (about 3/4 acre.) Two new red varieties Chambourcin (a late ripening vine) and Frontenac (mid season), along with a few new rows of concord have been added. More Vignoles for white wine was also planted. Many of the vines that we planted a few years ago are now in full crop - Baco Noir, St. Peppin, Niagara, Delaware and more DeChaunac. Pat is shown in this picture installing grow tubes on the newly planted vines. The tubes allow light in but keep the deer and the weed control chemicals away from the vines. Without the grow tubes the deer will eat all of the new shoots on the plants - they like the young growth, it is very fragile like celery. We even put the plants in nice rows to make it easy for the deer to find them. More grow tube pictures ... It looks like we have missed most of the major frosts that were so devastating last year. Last years June newsletter shows the major damage we had in 2002. The buds are beginning to grow on the vines and are starting to develop leaves. You can see the tiny grape clusters developing in the picture. During June the vines will bloom, next month we will have lots of bloom pictures. Take a look at our Grape Pictorial for images of what will happen in the vineyard this year. ********************** MSU course in viticulture - this months posting: Wine Judging Part V - November 4, 2002 / W.C. Paetz " What is the world standard of special occasion wines? I think most people might agree that truly momentous events are celebrated with the magic of Champagne including the sound of poping corks and bursting bubbles. Some of these bubbles come from Champagne and some from sparkling wines. The focus of this paper is to explore and contrast the differences between these two wine styles, specifically from France and California. The rest of the story ..... ********************** Interesting articles to check out From Small Oak Website in South Africa: All Those Empty Barrels - A good article on barrels. Filtration article Acid conversion table    Try: GrapeSeek - It is s a good website for any kind of grapegrower **********************   June grape recipe - Carmalized Grapes The recipe ..... This Month in the Vineyard This Month at the Honey Farm    Checking colonies - Eric Fisher helped this year, Pollination, June honey recipe Making splits in the spring is one of our most important times of the year in the bee yard. We take frames of brood (un-hatched baby bees) from the stronger colonies and use them to make new colonies. This past year we lost more than 60% of our honeybees due to varroa mites and the long winter. Most beekeepers in the area had very heavy winter losses. Even after making splits and installing new package bees, our colony count is down 30%. There may not be as large of a honey crop this fall in our area. You will not see many swarms this year. Most colonies in the wild have died out and beekeepers have split their colonies heavily, which will reduce the overcrowding and helps to prevent swarming. Honeybee colonies swarm when they too strong in the spring time - it is nature's way to make new colonies. This year I had a helper with me in the bee yards. Eric Fisher (a local youth who also helped prune vines) joined me for a few days checking the colonies. More pictures & details ........ ********************** Pollination Month May & June are big pollination months for fruit growers. It is very important that they get proper pollination for their crops. Download a copy of "The Story of Pollination" - An 8 page report with lots of pictures - from the National Honey Board. ********************** Pollen Collection Helps Plot the Past Archaeologists seeking clues about the life of settlers in early America are the latest experts to make use of an Agricultural Research Service special collection of more than 8,000 types of pollen. ARS scientist Gretchen D. Jones's collection of glass slides and light and scanning electron micrographs (SEMs)--a type of highly detailed photograph--of various pollen species will be featured on a Public Broadcasting Service science special. The study of pollen is called palynology. The rest of the story ......   ********************** June Honey Recipe Orange Cream Spread The recipe ..... This Month at the Honey Farm From our readers    This is a section for comments/questions/recipes from our readers. Please read the comments & feel free to put your 2 cents worth in. Please send me your comments ...... Visit the Readers Comments page to view all the content of these messages. Here are samples of this months e-mails:   Starting a hive in my backyard  ••  small experimental vineyard in central Virginia  ••   send me one of your catalogs  ••   do you have to have a male and female grape plants  ••   how much yeast to add to the starter for mead  ••   where can I purchase a machine for making stuffed grapeleaves?  ••   Do you carry the chocolate honey combs?  ••   What materials do you use for your wicks?  ••   Trying to identify the bottle of rose wine.   The "From our Readers" Page Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month    Congratulations! June candle w*nner is: stacey@getconn.com Will this months w*nner, stacey@getconn.com, please contact us and send your address so that I can ship your candles.   Our list of previous candle w*nners.   Click below for something to end this newsletter with. See You Next Month! Laugh of the month: The System is Down

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