Monthly Special Priced Items
Special price this month on our
Embossed Forest Pillar and our
10 Inch Hexagonal Dinner Candles!
Embossed Forest Pillar
List Price: $12.95
Special Price: $10.35
10 Inch Hexagonal Dinner Candles
List Price: $7.95
Special Price: $ 6.35
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Special pricing through
September & October
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
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Candle Dipping
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Wicks for 6 pairs of candles are on a frame and dipped into hot
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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 dipps.
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Greetings!
Greetings from Honeyflow Farm. 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, winemaking or about our farm.
Click here to view past issues of our newsletter.
Click here to view last year's September
2002 Newsletter.
A few notes about this issue:
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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This Month in the Candle Shop |
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Burning Candles Safely
Candles are a safe product and only become
a hazard when used improperly. The
majority of fires involving candles are not caused by
the candles, but by people
using them in an unsafe manner. The National Candle Association
recommends the
following safety tips when burning candles:
-- Candles should be placed at least three inches
apart so they don't melt one another.
-- The best way to extinguish a candle is to use
a special candle snuffer or candle quencher to prevent
hot wax from spattering.
-- Do not extinguish candles with water.
The water can cause the hot wax to spatter and some
candle containers to break. More tips ...
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 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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Harvest season at the Vineyard,
Are you receiving our Picking Updates? New Grape Pails (Bags),
Protecting the grapes from the birds, Tips from Winemaker
Magazine, Our trip to Bully Hill winery in New York, September
grape recipe
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 ......
If you did not receive your emailed picking update and would like
to receive them (there is about 4 or 5
of them), click on the "Update Your Profile"
link at the bottom of this newsletter.
Every week during the grape picking
season we hold a drawing and someone wins a bushel
of grapes.
Click here for a copy of the "Tattler" that we mail
out each year with prices.
The long, cold winter has caused some winter
damage on the vines and there may be shortages of
a few varieties of table grapes and white winemaking
grapes.
There is a very good crop of concord types
and red wine grapes. This is a very good
year to try a “blush” wine.
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Make Red Wine the Easy
Way!
Grape pails are a plastic pail, with a nylon stainer
bag in it, tied with a loose knot, filled with crushed
and de-stemmend grapes and quickly frozen. These grape
bags may be added to grape juice to add color and
body resulting in a red wine, or just used by themselves.
They are very handy when you do not have a press -
just squeeze them by hand or let them drain - And
the strainer bags are re-useable!
More juice & "Grape Pail" info
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Preventing Bird Damage
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.
At our vineyard we use many tools to keep
the birds away. The only thing that is 100% effective is
bird netting, but it is expensive and labor intensive.
We apply bird netting to only the most sensitive grapes.
The nets are 17 feet wide by 400 feet long and are stored
in rolls that are rolled over the top of the rows and pulled
down over the sides of each row. When you pick grapes from
a netted row you just lift the nets up over your head, removing
a staple if necessary. They are
not to keep you out (I occasionally hear this.) More .....
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Tips from Winemaker Magazine
This is just a collection of interesting articles from
Winemaker Magazine:
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Our visit to Bully Hill Winery August, 2003
 Bully Hill Winery was a place that I have wanted to visit for many
years. When Pat & I first became interested
in winemaking and viticulture Walter S. Taylor was one of
the first winemakers to use Hybrid grapes. We could go to
the wine shop and purchase wine made from grapes such as
Seyval Blanc, Foch and Baco Noir. Today they still grow
and produce wines from these same grapes.
The theme for many of the wine labels
always has something to do with a goat.
As the story goes, there was a lawsuit
between Walter S. Taylor and his family the Taylor Wine
Co. and Walter S. Taylor lost the priviledge of putting
his
own name on his wine.
Therefore the theme:
"They have taken away my heritage. But they have
not taken my Goat."
Signed: Walter S. ######
See the rest of our tour ............
Did You Know?
Christian Monks dominated winemaking for hundreds of years.
The process of
fermentation was thought to be magical in ancient times,
and drinking was thought to be a mystical bond with the
Gods.
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September grape recipe - Country
Grape Sherbet
The recipe .....
This
Month in the Vineyard
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This Month at the Honey Farm |
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The Honey harvest
is starting, Sept Honey Recipe
September is the month that we begin to take
our honey crop off. Most of what is harvested now goes directly
to our sales stand or to road side markets. In October and
November the rest of the crop is harvested and stored in
barrels. The picture shows frames of honey going into our
extractor. Click here for more extracting pictures.
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Raw & Unprocessed Honey?
Unfiltered Honey? Pasteurized Honey?
Whats the difference?
These questions were from a really good email that was
sent us from Barbara in Michigan.
Q. Your label just states honey yet you claim to have raw
and unprocessed
honey. How come you do not label it raw?
A. Raw & unprocessed honey is available at our sales
stand in the fall when we fill your own containers from
our bulk tank. We fill this barrel with honey directly
from our extracting barn and it is raw & unprocessed.
The wildflower/clover mix table grade honey that has
been put in containers for wholesale or retail sales is
not filtered or pasteurized! We warm our honey only to
130 to 135 degrees, cooler than most residential hot water
tanks. This will retard granulation, a natural condition
of honey for a short period of time. This low temperature
warming allows us to lightly “strain” the
honey through cheesecloth and pack it into containers.
Any occasional honey crystals that may appear due to this
more natural treatment may be melted by putting the jar
of honey into hot water.
This unfiltered honey is not completely "raw"
because it has been warmed slightly and therefore should
not be labeled as such.
Click here for the rest of the questions .....
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September Honey Recipe
- Rose Oil & Honey Facial Mask
Rejuvenate and replenish your skin.
Sweet almond oil, which is light and easily absorbed, softens
and nourishes skin. Honey as natural humectant, moisturizes,
leaving even tired skin incredibly smooth. The recipe .....
This
Month at the Honey Farm
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Mead Making |
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Mead Makers are preparing
for the fall honey harvest.
I have just heard from Rex Halfpenny at Michigan
Beer Guide and he is planning to do an article
on mead making in his next issue. (Watch the cover - some
of the pictures are from our website.)
His website is at www.michiganbeerguide.com
Rex Halfpenny
Michigan Beer Guide
PO Box 648
Leonard, MI 48367
248-628-6584
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Plan to Attend the International Mead Festival
Savor the largest collection of commercial meads for tasting
ever available at the Meadfest (www.meadfest.com) in Boulder, Colorado,
October 24 and 25, 2003.
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New Book on Mead Making Available
The Association of Brewers
announced the release of its newest book, The Compleat Meadmaker.
Authored by master meadmaker Ken Schramm of Troy, Mich,
the book features photos from the National
Honey Board
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Other good mead sites:
The Honeyflow Farm mead page
Honeywine.com
AboutMead.com
GotMead.com
The Mead Hall
The Mead Maker's Page
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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:
Won First Place with your Baco Noir, Second Place with
your Marechal Foch, and Fourth Place with your Cayuga/Horizon
blend at the 2003 Michigan State Fair ••
Question About Raw Uprocessed Honey and Regular
Honey •• filtered
grape juice? ••
Where do you buy bird net? ••
Did you make your own crank for the bird netting?
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your site - Questions ••
Northeastern Vine Supply ••
Candle winner!
The
"From our Readers" Page
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Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
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Congratulations! September candle w*nner is:
jerchiro@aol.com
Will this months w*nner,
jerchiro@aol.com
please contact us and
so that I can ship your candles.
Our list of previous candle w*nners.
Click below for something to
end this newsletter with.
Laugh
of the month: I Don't Do Mornings
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