Honeyflow Farm "Tales from the Farm"
4939 Mill Rd.    PO Box 275 - Dryden, Michigan 48428 - (810) 796-2344 (Phone & Fax)

Week 4 -  Sept 23 to Sept 25, 2005
Open Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays only - 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

COMMODITY PRICES
U-Pick Grapes
1-19 lbs. .80/lb.
½ bu (20 lbs.) or more .60/lb.
5 bu (200 lbs.) or more .54/lb.
10 bu. (400 lbs.) or more .46/lb.

(An average person can pick from 1 to 3 bu/hr - bring lots of friends)

1 1/2 bushel (60lb)
makes 5 gal wine

 (*** Means easy picking this weekend)

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Juice and Jelly Grapes (With Seeds)
Price (Black) - Rows 6 & 7 - Our ripest blue grape - still some left.
Seneca (White)- Rows 8 & 9 - Our best white seeded table grape - still some left.
Buffalo (Black)- Rows 3, 4 & 47 - Ready this weekend
Delaware (Red) - Rows 68 to 70 - Ready this weekend - good crop
NY Muscat - Rows 10 & 50 - Mostly gone
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Ready this weekend - good crop
*** Concord (Black)- Rows 1, 2, 48 & 49 - Ready this weekend - excellent crop
Steuben (Black)- Row 5 - Needs 1 more week - good crop
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Seedless Table Grapes - Still some left
Canadice - Rows 16 to - 19 - Ripe now - good crop
Reliance - Rows 13 & 14 - Very Ripe now - good crop
Einset - Rows 27, 28 % 36 - Mostly gone.
Suffolk Red - Rows 22 to 26 - Still some left
Himrod - Rows 20 & 21 - Mostly gone.
Lakemont - Rows 11 & 12 - Mostly gone.
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Red Wine Grapes
Marechal Foch - Rows 42 to 46 - Ripe Now - still some left
 DeChaunac - Rows 51 to 54, 64 to 67 - Ripe this week
Baco Noir - No Baco this year - They did not survive the winter.
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White Wine Grapes
Horizon - Rows 35 & 41- Mostly gone
St. Pepin - Rows 61 to 63 - Ripe Now- good crop
Seyval Blanc - Rows 31 & 32 - Small amount left
Delaware - Rows 68 to 70 - Ripe now - good crop
GW-5 - Row 15 - Ripe Now - small amount left
Cayuga White - Rows 33 & 34 - Ripe Now - small amount left
Niagara - Rows 71 & 72 - Ripe Now - good crop
Vignoles - Rows 38 & 39 - Week 2 or 3 - Gone
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