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This Month's Special Priced Items
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Special pricing through November & December
Complimentary
votive's with orders over $25
| Monthly Drawing
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 - check for your name
each month)
Tell your friends about our farm.
All they have to do is to subscribe to our
monthly on-line newsletter to be elligible.
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
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Candle Dipping
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Honeyflow Farm
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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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| A few notes about our format:
Although our newsletter has a "overview"
of every article in the issue,
a 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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eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan, quoted
in Observer, March 29 1981
The
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Greetings!
Greetings from Honeyflow Farm. Our Bi-Monthly newsletter will
keep you up to date on farm activities as they occur.
This annual Holiday issue is
also being sent to our friends on the Lapeer County Concert
Choir mailing list. Check the Choir section below for
info on our Messiah Christmas Concert.
Our Fall Farm
Weekend Market is Closed for the Season
We would like to
thank everyone who visited us this season.
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.
In an effort to keep up the quality
of our newsletter we are going to publish Bi-Monthly rather
than Monthly from now on.
What we have planned for 2005 is a:
"Winter" Issue - for Jan/Feb
"Early Spring" Issue - for March/April
"Spring" Issue - for May/June
"Summer" Issue - for July/August
"Harvest" Issue - for September/October
"Holiday" Issue - for November/December
We also have a new Links
Page where you can visit our other Link Partners or
you may link your site to ours if you wish.
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At the Candle
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In the Candle Shop, Making
Hand-Dipped Candles, Bloom
We have been making beeswax candles for more that
20 years. Our hand-dipped style, sold in pairs,
are one of the most popular items sold on our site.
Beeswax candles are started by stringing
a frame with candle wicking. Each frame starts by holding
6 pairs of candles. The frames are dipped into 175 degrees
beeswax, cooled, and then the procedure is repeated. After
the candle is about 1/2 size, the frame is  split apart into two frames. The dipping procedure is continued until
the candle is finished. The pictures on the left sidebar
shows this process.
Click
here for a new 39 image pictorial showing exactly how we
dip these candles.
To
purchase our traditional hand-dipped candles.....
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Bloom
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, Chr
istmas Tree Ornaments and other Decorativ
e Pillars.
These decorative pillars and candles are sprayed
with a "candle luster" coating that
seals, protects and hardens the surface of the candle
to prevent dust and fingerprints and it
really brings out any detail on the candle.
To
see samples of this candl luster treatment.......
For most of our decorative pillars you have the
option of bloom or candle luster when you order them.
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Download our 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.
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11 Piece
Nativity Set
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Nativity Set, Hot Items this
Christmas Season!
The figurines in our hand crafted nativity set
vary from 2 inches to 6 inches tall. They are made from pure, natural scent beeswax and do
have a wick in all but the baby Jesus figure, although most
people will display them rather than burn them. They may
also be special ordered without the wicks.
To
Order.....
View
large images of all the Figurines......
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Hot Items this Christmas Season!
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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
(This pillar is On Sale this season
for $32.25)
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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.
Fire
place scene = $14.95
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4 of our large Christmas ornaments for $12.60! These pure beeswax ornaments will look perfect hanging
on your Christmas tree or wall. The average in weight
of these is 1 1/2 to 2 oz and sizes range from 2 to
3 inchs wide x 3 to 4 1/2 inchs tall and 7/16 to 1
1/4 inches thick. This is the larger set of our Christmas
Ornaments. They can also be purchased separately.
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This is the smaller size set of our Christmas Ornments. The gold cord makes it very easy to hang
on a Christmas Tree. The average size is 3 inches
tall x 1/4 inches thick. They are also the ideal Holiday
gift!
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Clic
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At the Vineyard
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Winemaking Options for New
Winemakers, This Month's Grape Recipe.
Click
here to go directly to our Holiday Vineyard Report.
How do you get started in winemaking?
The best option is to come to our farm and pick
fresh grapes. Here you can mix and match and experiment
with over 20 varieties.
If you do not want grape wine try Honey Wine or
Mead.
If you missed the grape season and cannot wait
until next fall you can always make fruit wines,
sometimes called "Country Wines." Try apple cider,
strawberry, blueberry, elderberry, there are many to choose
from.
Many people also try grape concentrates
that are available all year at most winemaking shops.
Our
winemaking resource page.....
If you do not want to do all the messy part of
winemaking, there are also wine shops were you can make
the wine at their location from concentrates and
come back in a few months and bottle it.
Vintners Cellar is one of these options.
We have one of these shops close to us in Lapeer:
Vinters Cellar of Lapeer
128 West Nepessing
1-810-245-9348
theown ers@vclapeerwinery.net
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At the Honey
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Nov/Dec at the Honey Farm, Harvesting Honey, Holiday Issue
Honey Recipe.
Click
here to go directly to our Holiday Issue Honey Farm Report.
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The Retail Honey Farm is closed now
but the seasons work is notcompletely finished yet.
At the time this article is written we have
not finished removing and extracting all of our honey. We
like to have this completed by Thanksgiving.
The picture shows beehives that have honey
supers on them and hopefully the bees have filled them with
honey. The bees will live in the bottom 2 or 3 boxes over
winter and any boxes above that with honey in them may be
harvested.
The
rest of the article.......
Holiday Issue Honey Recipe -Holiday
Honey Wings
From Honey.com
The
recipe.....
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Our Grandson
has Severe Allergies
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Our grandson, William, was born almost a year ago
(last December). When I first saw him, about a
month old, he had bad rashes all over his body, and his
mother had already taken him to the hospital because of
a bad asthma attack.
We foundout that he has severe allergies to all
kinds of foods and scents. All of our clothes had
to be washed in vinegar and NOTHING WITH AN ARTIFICIAL SCENT,
such as fabric softners, soaps, etc could be used if we
wanted to be near him.
After experimenting with many products our daughter,
Andrea, found that the natural Mellaluca products that use
a lot of "tea tree oil" work extremely well in
our housholds. We use 100% of these products with
natural essential oils rather than harsh detergents.
To make a long story short, Andrea has become a
distributor of these household products and if
you would like more information please go visit her site:
TeaT
reeOilOnLine
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Healthy
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New Line
of Leaded Glass Products
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One of the local Orchard/Farm Markets where we
sell honey in the fall also carries a line of hand crafted
leaded glass decorations made by a local artist.
Pat fell in love the one shown here and we decided
to include it on our site. This one is available
for $23.95. Click
here to purchase one.....
We will have additional leaded glass items in the
near future, all with a Vineyard, Honey or Candle theme.
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Lapeer County
Concert Choir Annual Christmas Concert
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The Messiah, Handel's most successful and best
known oratorio, was composed in the fall of the year 1741
in 24 days. It was first performed at a concert
given for charitable purposes at Dublin, Ireland on April
13, 1742 with Handel conducting the performance in person.
This Christmas we are performing the Messiah for
the centerpiece of our 37th Christmas season.
Mark your Calendars for:
Saturday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.
Country Christian Church
North Branch, MI
Sunday, December 5, 5:00 p.m.
Christian Reformed Church
Imlay City, MI
Saturday, December 11, 7:00 p.m.
Dryden Wesleyan Church, MI
Sunday Dec 12, 3:00 p.m.
United Methodist Church
Lexington, MI
Click
here for information...
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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:
Raw honey for allergies, ••
Honey vinegar, ••
5th grade project, ••
Are you still picking grapes? ••
More allergy questions
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