September at Honeyflow Farm
September candle winner: southnorthca@yahoo.ca	September, 2004 Vol 4 No 9

in this issue This Month's 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 This Month's Special Priced Items         Frog Prince Pillar List Price: $12.95 Special Price: $10.35 Hound Dog Pillar List Price: $11.50 Special Price: $ 9.20       *************     Special pricing through September & October 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 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 dips.   The finished product.             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.             "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004) 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. Our Fall Farm Weekend Market is now open! Click here for details....   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. This Month in the Candle Shop    From Flower to Flame Or How Beeswax Candles are made from Flowers - A pictorial explanation of how the honeybees create wax. ********************** 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. Download our Candle Catalog This Month in the Vineyard    Harvest season at the Vineyard, Are you receiving our Picking Updates? Make Red Wine the Easy Way! Our Trip to Swedish Hill Vineyards, Phenolic Measurement of Wine, September Grape Recipe Click here to go directly to our September Vineyard Report.   **********************   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 ...... Click here for our latest Picking Update....   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. Check the updates for your name.   Click here for a copy of the "Tattler" that we mail out each year with prices. The past two very cold winters have caused some trunk damage to some of the vines. Some varieities such as cayuga and baco noir have no crop at all. Most of the other types have from a small to a very large crop. Check our picking updates for information. ********************** 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 ..... See our "Year in the Vineyard" page to see more details of grape growing!   ********************** Pat and I went to two vineyards on our trip out east. Hunt Country Vineyard and Swedish Hill Vineyards.   This month we will tour the Swedish Hill Vineyard. We tasted a lot of their wines and brought many of them home. Some of our favorites were:   Viking White - A blend of Vidal, Pino Gris, Cayuga, Reisling & Vignoles Cayuga White - I really liked how they made their cayuga! Delaware - Their delaware was very soft and delicious. Svenska White - (Svenska means "Swedish") A good anytime wine made from Diamond, Golden Muscat, Delaware & Catawba. Marechal Foch - Foch is always one of my favorites. Viking Red - A great dry red wine made from Rougeon, Marechal Foch, Baco & Cabernet Franc. Svenska Red - (Svenska means "Swedish") A "grapey" semi-sweet red wine made from Concord, Delaware, Rougeon, Isabel, Diamond &Vincent. Click here for the rest of the story:   ********************** We just had another update about what Sandy Paetz is doing at the MSU Viticulture & Winemaking School - “Phenolic Measurement of Wine” Details .... More details about the MSU program .....   **********************   September Grape Recipe - Wine Cheese Spread Click here for the recipe ...... This Month in the Vineyard This Month at the Honey Farm    September at the Honey Farm - Bulk Honey Tank is Now Open, Raw & Unprocessed Honey? Unfiltered Honey? Pasteurized Honey? Whats the difference? September Honey Recipe. Click here to go directly to our September Honey Farm Report.   **********************   Farm opens Friday, September 3. Our honeybees colonies look very good this year and we expect a good crop of honey. The clovers and thistles have been growing rapidly and the rainy weather has caused the flowers to grow profusely. Bring your pails and jars & we will fill them. Honey prices have varied widely the last few years. Things have stabilized and our price have gone down to $1.50/lb. Observation Hive Tells Secrets … The magical world of the honeybee is now yours to see through our observation hive. Let your children find the queen, and see what’s happening in the honeybees unique home. Click here for our on line newsletter .....   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.   **********************   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 .....   ********************** September Honey Recipe - Peanut Butter Toasties from Honey.com 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. Visit the Readers Comments page to view all the content of these messages. Here are samples of this months e-mails:   Jelly Making,  ••  Foch grapes,  ••  Freezing Honey,  ••  Niagara grapes,  ••  Bev Art Brewer & Winemaker Supply,  ••  Concords,  ••  St.Pepin grapes,  ••  Friends from the Czech Republic,  ••  2gal Pails of Unprocessed Honey The "From our Readers" Page Candle W*nner & Laugh of the Month    Congratulations! September candle winner: southnorthca@yahoo.ca Will this months w*nner, southnorthca@yahoo.ca please contact us and so that I can ship your candles. Our list of previous candle w*nners.   Click below for something silly to end this newsletter with. See You Next Month! Laugh of the month: Optical Illusions

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