Fall Honey Harvest Continues
November candle winner: akersamos@hotmail.com	November, 2003 Vol 3, No. 11

in this issue Holiday Special Priced Items This Month in the Candle Shop This Month in the Vineyard This Month at the Honey Farm From our readers Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month Holiday Special Priced Items Special price this month on 4 Holiday Candles: Pilgrim Boy & Girl set New 12.5 inch Cylinder Pillar Lords Supper Candle 11 Piece Nativity Set 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   ************* 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.           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 dips.   The finished product.   5 lb Un- processed Honey - $13.00 Have one shipped to you.   "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) 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, wine making or about our farm. Click here to view past issues of our newsletter. Click here to view last year's November 2002 Newsletter. This Month in the Candle Shop    Flower to Flame Pictorial Have you ever wondered how beeswax is made? Not from sludge from an oil refinery but from fragrant flowers grwoing in your backyard. Click here for a short pictorial .......... 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 This Month in the Vineyard    Vineyard is closed for season, Winemaking Pictorial, Chateau Valerio, The "Winemakers" Novel - A Great Read! November Grape Recipe The vineyard season is over for this year, all the grapes are sold and most likely fermented by now. We have all the bird repelling balloons and alarms packed away for another year. Many years we are so busy, and the grapes are sold so quickly we tend to take whatever is left for our own wine. This year I decided that I wanted some Baco-Foch red wine so I had some picked before our customers picked them first. We took some pictures and made a winemaking pictorial that I thought would be interesting.     To continue .....   Our daughter, Mary, just visited Varerio Poliuto at Chateau Valerio. They are a local winery in Clinton Township (Southeastern) Michigan. They make wine from California grapes. She brought back some excellent Zinfandel, Cabernet, White Zinfandel and a very interesting Salsa Wine. Mary really enjoyed the tours and wine tasting. Visit their site at: Chateau Valerio ********************** We would like to thank one of our customers, Mr & Mrs George Karas for sending us a copy of the "The WineMakers" by Jack Bickham. I encourage every winemaker to read it - you will really enjoy it. There are not too many novels that center the story around the wine industry. A good story involving romance, treachery, family problems and stock ownership - all climaxing in the fall winemaking season. Quick and easy reading! ********************** November grape recipe - Venison Tenderloin Whether you join the army of hunters for deer season, or acquire your venison another way, here is an easy recipe for a typically Michigan treat. You can substitute a tender cut of beef for the venison.    The recipe ..... This Month in the Vineyard This Month at the Honey Farm    The Honey harvest is almost completed, The Importance of Bees in Wartime Part II, November honey recipe The Honey harvest is almost completed. In November we will have finished rmoving the surplus honey from the bees and have it extracted and stored in barrels. Soon we will be wrapping the colonies with black plastic and insulation to help them through the winter months. The picture shows frames of honey going into our extractor. Click here for more extracting pictures.   **********************   THE IMPORTANCE OF BEES IN WAR TIME by Roger Sutherland - SouthEastern Michigan Beekeepers Association (Part II of a two part series) BEES AT SEA From a later era comes another story (of questionable truth) about bees and pirates. According to the story, a 17th- century-merchant ship, bound for Cuba and Mexico, sailed from Barcelona carrying bees which had established a hive under the upper deck near the bow. The crew took the presence of the beehive as a good omen, and let it alone. Their belief seem justified by fair winds and a quick trip through the Atlantic Ocean chill, which kept the bees quiet. In the warmer waters near the Caribbean, the bees continued to cooperate and merely sortied from their hive for short distances.    The rest of the story ..... **********************   November Honey Recipe - Barbecued Wings We recently had our chimney cleaned and Mark from Oxford All Seasons Chimney Service gave us this recipe: Whip together 1/2 honey and 1/2 maple syrup. Put raw wings in open pan in oven and bake, drizzling honey & syrup mixture on them during baking. 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. Visit the Readers Comments page to view all the content of these messages. Here are samples of this months e-mails:   Purchasing concord vines   ••    Freezer Grape Jam    • •    Where can I purchase some Honey Mead?   • •     Is it easy to make mead?   • •    Using pictures on website     • •    " fluffy grape pie recipe"   The "From our Readers" Page Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month    Congratulations! November candle w*nner is: akersamos@hotmail.com Will this months w*nner, akersamos@hotmail.com please contact us and so that I can ship your candles. Our list of previous candle w*nners. Laugh of the month: Why is that policeman wearing a diaper?

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