Monthly Sales Items
On sale this
month is our 6 pack of Lilac Votives and our Kitten Pillar
Kitten Pillar
List Price: $8.95
Sale Price: $7.20
6 Pack of Lilac Votives
List Price: $10.25
Sale Price: $ 8.20
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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.
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Candle Dipping
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6 pairs of candles half
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The frame is split in half
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The candles are hanging
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| Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies
and getting dollars back.
Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate
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Beeswax Candlemaking |
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Candle Making, Candle
Decorating Styles, New Products.
We did a lot of candle making in January &
February and just finished up making hundreds of hand-dipped
tapers. (Left sidebar)
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CLEAN AND CLASSIC, “IN” ANY SEASON
With Decorating Styles Constantly Changing, Take Comfort
in Knowing That Less is More. The story .......
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New Products
 Brand new this year is our 6 pack of tea lite candles.
Burn time is about 3 - 4 hrs. List Price: $6.75
Also available in our bulk pack of 24 for
$21.50.
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 Frog Prince Pillar List
Price: $12.95
There are many people that are very serious frog collectors.
This is the perfect addition to their collection!
(4 1/2 inches wide x 5 1/2 inches tall)
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 Pint Size Container Candle
List Price: $9.95
And old style container candle in a 4 inch tall, pint
size tapered jar.
Burn time is about 30 hrs. Comes complete with a metal
lid for storage.
Our
Candle Catalog!
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March in the Vineyard |
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MSU course
in viticulture, Book Review - Northern Wineworks, Turkeys
Eating Grapes? Winebarrel Plus, March grape recipe.
MSU course in viticulture - this
months posting:
W.C. Paetz / HRT333 / Wine Judging / September 16, 2002
Varieties - NY Muscat, Concord, St. Peppin, Sangiovese
To continue this story ........
More details about the MSU program and additional articles .....
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Book Review - Northern Wineworks
Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Cold
Climates
by Tom Plocher and Bob Parke
I recently received a copy Northern
Wineworks and I highly recomend it for anyone interested
in growing grapes and making wine in cool climates.
It is geared towards small vineyards and homewinemakers
with a lot of detail on the varieties to choose, cool
climate areas, wine making, wine blending and wine tasting.
The rest of the story .....
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Cornell University also has some
very good information on Dealing with Winter Cold Injury
to Grapevine Canes and Trunks
Cane and trunk anatomy in relation
to cold injury
Types of cold injury to canes and trunks
Role of bud survival and recovery from cold injury
Deciding what to do when trunks are injured
Strategies to avoid trunk injury
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Are Turkeys eating your Grapes?
Find out .....
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Pat & I just delivered a load
of honey to the Winebarrel Plus store (for
their meadmaking and brewing customers) and we had a
nice discussion and tour of the store from Mark George.
If you are ever in the Livonia, Michigan area I highly
recomend that you stop in. You can also purchase most
of what he has available at his on line store and website.
Here are a few of the useful features on
his site ......
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March grape recipe -
DELICIOUS GRAPES
The recipe .....
This
Month in the Vineyard
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March at the Honey Farm |
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Checking Colonies, Famous Beekeepers, Sweet & Spicy Dip.
In March we will continue checking
the colonies for winter survival and also to
see if they need any feeding. (pictures of how we emergency feed the honeybees if necessary)
I have checked most of our colonies by now and have
found varying amounts of winter die-off (from 70% to
5%.) This is most likely because of queens not resistant
to varroa mites and the cold winter.
Sometimes when it is real cold
for long periods the honeybees cannot move
their cluster even if there is honey one inch away.
A few warm spells really helps a lot.
Our preliminary estimate of winter
loss this year look pretty substantial but we are also
seeing better winter survival in some yards due to varroa
mite resistant queens. The last few years we
have been raising new queen cells with newly developed
resistant queens. (pictures from last year) We just ordered 2 of them. ($75 each)
I call them my expensive bugs.
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Who are some of the World's Famous
Beekeepers?
With about 100,000 beekeepers
in the USA and Canada today, and several million
beekeepers throughout the world, one would hope that
at least a tiny percentage of these folks have distinguished
themselves in other fields as well! The story .......
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March Honey Recipe - SWEET & SPICY DIP
The recipe .....
This
Month at the Honey Farm
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Afghanistan Agriculture |
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Restoring Afghanistan
Agriculture - Grape Culture - Fruit Grower Magazine
A University of California-Davis pomologist
will lead a team of faculty members who will travel
to Afghanistan this spring as part of an international
effort to revitalize that country's agriculture system
after two decades of war. "Renewing Afghanistan's
agriculture touches the lives of the majority of the
population in that country and gives hope for the future,"
says Patrick Brown, who also is director of International
Programs in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences at UC-Davis.
From March through August, UC- Davis faculty
will carry out a market survey and prepare
to hold workshops in Afghanistan to train Afghanistan-native
agricultural specialists on issues such as orchard management
and tree crops, postharvest technology, agricultural
business management, and analyzing farming systems.
The idea is to provide the university system
and government in Afghanistan with the know-how
to rebuild their crop system and assist farmers in growing
crops such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, and grapes.
All of this activity is a direct result of
the United States restoring Freedom and Stability to
a country.
Fruit
Grower Magazine
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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.
Please send me
your comments ......
This months comments: Starbucks, clover honey, red wine vinegar - apple cider vinegar,
zinc core votives, grapevine winter damage, Sterling
Hts winemaking
The
"From our Readers" Page
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Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
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Congratulations! February
candle w*nner is:
affordableweddingplanning@yahoo.com
Please send us your address so that I can ship
your candles.
Our list of previous candle winners.
Click below for a silly thing
to end this newsletter with.
See You Next Month!
Laugh
of the month: The Ground Hog's Late Winter Check!
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