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Holiday
Pricing
through
November & December
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Pair of Candles
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!
If you
are on our picking updates
list you may also win a
bushel of grapes. Four bushels are given away
each
season.
SUBSCRIBE
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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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"The
government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases: If it
moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate
it. And if it stops moving, subsidize
it."
Ronald
Reagan
(1911 - 2004)
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Our Sponsors
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| At the Candle Shop |
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Complimentary
Holiday Candles!
Every order this Holiday Season
will have complimentary votive's and tealites
added to it.
THIS IS OUR GIFT TO YOU!
For every $25 of product
purchased we will add 1 votive +2 tealites. A
$100 order will receive 4 votive's + 8
tealites.
This is a Holiday extension of our
year round policy of adding free votive's to
every order. Good through the end of
December.
There will be
more holiday specials to come - watch for the
newsletter!
2 New apothecary
candles
A large round and a
large square glass apothecary have recently
added to our candle shop.
The
large round is priced at $19.95
and the large
square is ON SALE FOR $15.75
(regular price = $18.25)
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| Beeswax Candle FAQ |
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Why do cracks
sometimes form on the top of my candles after
burning?
Burning a candle for extended
periods of time will result in a large pool
of melted
wax. As beeswax cools, it
shrinks slightly which can sometimes cause
cracking.
Many times cracks can occur in the
wax pool in apothecary & glass candles.
Since beeswax is a harder wax and burns at a
higher temperature it will tend to shrink and
also pull away from the glass container. Most
of the cheaper, softer waxes made from
petroleum will not do this.
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More Beeswax FAQ's |
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| At the Vineyard |
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We met lots of
interesting people at the vineyard this year.
Pat & I wish to thank all of the
visitors we had at our farm this year. We
have finally updated our pictures archive -
click here to view them.....
Adam Kolodziejski picked
some grapes for Rose
Valley Winery. His winery is in
Rose Valley near West Branch, Michigan. Visit
his web site at www.rosevalleywinery.net.
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A
group of retired engineers that were in a
fraternity together from Wayne State
University picked some foch and came out for
a party. |
They were having lots of fun -
they brought and we tasted a nice Foch wine -
very slightly sweetened that was very
pleasant. They filtered out the yeast cells
which makes it easy to control the residual
sugar levels. This group is typical of many
of our customers.
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Check out their
chief
winemaker's
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One of our grape winners was
Laurie Wylin. She won a bushel of
grapes in our weekly contest. All you need to
be eligible to win is to be on our harvest
updates mailing list.
Laurie, in the center,
picked her 40 lb of juice grapes and ran them
through our grape crusher. She took
her crushed grapes home in a 5 gallon pail.
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This Month's Grape Recipe - Great Grape Pie Recipe |
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| At the Honey Farm |
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Honey Harvest
2007
After the vineyard closes in
mid-October we will complete our honey
harvest. All of the honey is removed from the
colonies and we prepare them for winter, such
as a fall thymol treatment (yes, thyme - the
same as in your kitchen) and some insulation
on the top. The honey is taken to our red
barn, extracted and put in pails or barrels
for storage.
Click
here for extracting pictures....
Bee Movie: In Theaters in
November!
 Bee
Movie will be in movie
theaters this month! Bee
Movie is a production of DreamWorks,
which produced Shrek and other
popular animated movies. Bee Movie
was written by comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who
also provides the voice of the movie’s
main character, Barry Bee. Other famous
stars lending their voices include Renee
Zellweger, Kathy Bates, Chris Rock and John
Goodman.
The movie is expected to generate
positive publicity about beekeeping and
highlight the important role bee pollination
plays in plant production. For more
information, visit www.beemovie.com.
How the Experts Use
Honey
The National Honey Board has
produced a one-page tip sheet which describes
the different forms in which honey comes, as
well as how best to store and cook with
honey.
Get
the tip sheet ....
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This Month's Honey Recipe - Honey Cake & Texas Roadhouse Honey Butter |
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| Honeyfarm FAQ |
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What is the
National Honey Board?
NHB began in the 1980s when honey
producers and other industry representatives
got together to discuss a powerful new idea:
What would happen if they pooled their
resources to spread the word about honey? By
working together, the industry could
advertise, conduct research and promote honey
in ways that were simply too costly without a
cooperative effort. The
story.....
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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.
Send
me your comments/questions/recipes!
Visit the Readers
Comments page to view all the content of
these messages. Here
are samples of this month's e-mails:
Storing Honey
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White mold or scum on surface of wine
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Can I purchase beeswax candles at the
vineyard ••
Grape varieties available
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Concord juice
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Cleaning beeswax
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What is ripe this weekend
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you ship concords
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Great Grape pie recipe
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How long will you be selling bulk honey?
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Cabernet franc grapes?
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