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This Month's Special Priced Items
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Special
pricing through July & August
Complimentary
votive's with orders over $25
Monthly
Drawing
All
subscribers to our newsletter are eligible
to receive a pair free 9.5 inch beeswax
candles. We hold a drawing and then print
the person's name in every issue.
Watch
for your name - You may have already won!
If
you are on our picking updates list you
may also win a bushel of grapes. Four
bushels are given away each season.
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Candle
Dipping
at
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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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. |
| Don't
gamble; take all your savings and buy
some good stock and hold it till it goes
up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't
buy it.
"Will Rogers"
(1879 - 1935),
The
Quotations Page |
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out more....
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Greetings!
Our
Bi-Monthly newsletter will keep you up to
date on farm activities & candles sales
as they occur.
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| At
the Candle Shop |
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New
Candle Catalog is Completed.
We
recently revised our candle catalog and added
5 new pages to it. It has over 120 images and
35 pages showing everything that is sold on
our site. This 1 mg 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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| At
the Vineyard |
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Click
here to go directly to our Summer Vineyard Report.
Clean
Cultivation in the Vineyard, Replacing trunks,
Bloom, Sweetening & filtering wine, Preserving
grape leaves
This
year we purchased an new toy for our tractor
and started rototilling the row centers in the
vineyard. We do this instead of mowing
the grass that we previously had growing in
the row centers. Bare ground between the rows
can help with spring frosts slightly (the bare
ground gives off heat) and the lack of weed
competition will add vigour to the vines during
the growing season. Later in the season we will
let some of the grass grow back to make it easier
to walk on when you pick your grapes. More
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Bloom
in the Vineyard .....
Some
thoughts on sweetening and filtering wine.
I
like most of my white wines with a soft slightly
sweet finish and usually like my red wines quite
dry. Recently I had a red wine that I was not
really happy with and sweetened it (in the bottle)
slightly and it improved dramatically.
The
whole problem revolves around the fact that
any yeast in the wine will want to ferment out
all the sugar and make a naturally dry wine.
The
rest of the story .....
Preserving
Grape Leaves
We
have received questions in the past about
grape leaves. In early to mid-summer, when
the grape leaves on the vine are large, green,
and tender, they may be harvested for culinary
use. The
rest of the strory .....
Summer
Grape Recipe - Stuffed Grape Leaves
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Wine War! |
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A
wine war is pitting consumers -- who want wineries
to ship directly to them -- against wine wholesalers,
who are threatening consumers and wineries with
jail time if they bypass the middleman!
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here for the Wine War article! |
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| At
the Honey Farm |
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Checking
Colonies & Putting honey supers on, My dark
queens, Swarm Season, The Honey Feast
Click
here to go directly to our Summer Honey Farm
Report.
We
just finished up checking all of our colonies
to see how the splits and package bees that
were installed last month were doing. Most
of our split colonies were doing good - especially
the colonies with darker bees. The darker bees
mean that they had queens that we raised ourselves
from a darker race of bees, Russian/Carniolan,
which are more mite resistant. Extra honey supers
(boxes) were put on these colonies for the bees
to put honey into. More
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The
Honey Feast
The National Honey Board introduced an
e-mail recipe and meal-planning newsletter called
The Honey Feast. Subscribe today to receive
an entire recipe meal planner (every 3 weeks),
featuring outstanding recipes from our collection,
and all containing honey as an ingredient. www.honey.com/
New
Study Finds That Honey May Aid in Absorption
of Calcium
(from National Honey Board)
A study conducted at Purdue University showed
that consuming honey along with supplemental
calcium enhanced calcium absorption in rats.
National
Honey Board Press Release
Summer
Honey Recipe
Summer's
Here - Get Moving!
As
you suit up for your favorite activity, don't
forget to take along your honey - the world's
best known natural sweetener. Athletes of all
ages can benefit from consuming honey because
it provides the carbohydrates needed to fuel
their workout. Preliminary research sponsored
by the National Honey Board indicates that honey
is effective in replacing carbohydrates both
during and after exercise. Try (www.honey.com/)
some great tasting recipes featuring our favorite
sweetener.
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Specialty Soap Item! |
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Honeycomb
Complexion Bar
A
new item has been added to our line of honey
soaps. In addition to our Unscented,
Almond-Oatmeal, Muscato & Lavender, we now
offer a soap with comb honey in it.
Our
Honeycomb Complexion soap is exclusively made
for Honeyflow Farm, you will not find this unique
bar of soap anywhere else.
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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:
Nuisance
honeybees? ••
Votive burn time, ••
Growing grapes in England, ••
Karl Bailey info, ••
LBS of grapes for 5/50 gallons wine,
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Pruning grapes, ••
Selling tapers, ••
Grapes at wedding, ••
Purchasing queens, ••
Shipping grape juice, ••
Deer in his vineyard, ••
Stinky honey, ••
Grape growing classes, ••
Starter hive, ••
This month's candle winner, ••
Grape leaves.
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