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Bi-Monthly Drawing
All subscribers to our newsletter are eligible to receive
a pair of 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!
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win a bushel of grapes. Four bushels are given
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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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- A positive attitude may not solve
all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm
Albright
(1876 - 1944)
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At the
Candle Shop
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Burning Pillars
"Hugging" the pillar is the term
we use for gently squeezing the wax in towards the center
while the pillar is warm. This will allow all
the wax in the candle to be consumed and keep the candle
from "tunneling", where the sides do not completely
burn. More
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Beeswax Pillars and Vines
make a great wedding table centerpiece.
Our daughter, Elizabeth will be married in August
this year. She is making preparations for the tables at
her reception. More
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New High Speed Internet Connection
 We finally gave up our dial-up internet connection with something
with more speed. The local cable company wanted $2500
to run their service from the road to our farm so we
decided to go with a HughesNet
(used to be DirecWay) dish.
This will speed up our response to our customers and
free up our farm telephone line.
We also set our computer up to sing "Hallelujah
Chorus" whenever we receive a candle order from
you. So -- Please feel free to make our computer sing!
Download the latest
edition of our 35 page catalog with over 120 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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Beeswax
Candle FAQ
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What are "Rolled
Candles"?
Rolled candles are made from sheets of wax,
either beeswax or parraffin. Sometimes the
sheets are embossed with the hexagonal cells that honeybees
create. I have seen some candleshops that make pillars
with a completely smooth sheet of wax. More
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Vineyard
FAQ
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What do grape blossoms smell
like?
Walking through the vineyard when it is in
full bloom is a unique experience. The scent
is slightly more subtle than other fruits. More
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At the
Honey Farm
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Spring in the Beeyards
As this newsletter is being prepared, we are
starting to check all our colonies, raising new queens,
and making splits to replace bees that we have lost
over winter.
May is the best time in our area for making splits
and checking hives. It usually is nice weather,
fruit trees are in bloom and the bees are busy in the
trees and on the dandelions and IT SMELLS WONDERFULL.
The
rest of the story .....
NHB Showcased New Honey
Product Concepts
at the 2006 Food Marketing Institute Show!
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Healing Honey: The Sweet Evidence
Revealed
Substantial evidence demonstrates that honey, one of
the oldest healing remedies known to medicine, produces
effective results when used as a wound dressing. The
article ....
Doubts Cast over Value
of Low-Calorie Sweeteners
Info
from the National Honey Board .....
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This
Month's Honey Recipe - Honey Raisin Pie |
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Honeyfarm
FAQ
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What is the difference between
Creamed and Raw honey?
Not very much. Creamed
honey sometimes has finely granulated crystals of honey
blended in to insure a very fine texture. Raw honey
is straight from the extractor. Most of our creamed
honey is completely raw.
More
info on raw honey ....
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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 month's e-mails:
Raw Honey ••
Honeybees need water ••
Grape vine pruning wounds are bleeding ••
Votive questions ••
Using pictures on our site ••
Ordering package bees ••
Essential oil scents ••
Purchasing beeswax ••
Honey & allergies ••
Nice pruning pictures ••
No store hours ••
Wants to join pruning crew ••
Price grapes ••
Honeybees medications ••
Honey bread recipe problems ••
Making votives
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Candle
Winner & Laugh of the Month
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Congratulations!
Spring candle winner:tomnissy@attbi
Will this months w*nner,
tomnissy@attbi please contact us and
so that I can ship your pair of candles.
Our
list of previous candle w*nners.
Click below for something silly to end this
newsletter with.
See You Next Issue!
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