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Honeyflow Farm Newsletter
Spring Issue April - May - June 2007

In this issue

This Month's
Sale Items

At the Candle Shop

Beeswax Candle FAQ

At the Vineyard

Vineyard FAQ

At the Honey Farm

Honeyfarm FAQ

Candle Winner & Laugh of the Month


 

This Month's
Sale Items

Fr** 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.

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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.

 

 

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan

40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
The Quotations Page




Greetings from the Farm!

 

Honeyflow Farm, located in Dryden, Michigan, is:

  • a Vineyard that grows grapes for home winemakers,
  • a Honey Farm producing honey from Michigan flowers,
  • and a Beeswax Candle Shop that produces candles from Michigan beeswax

More background info on our farm ....


Although the U-Pick part of our farm is only open September to Mid October - our On-Line Web site is open all year!  

At our Candle Shop you can purchase candles, honey soap 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.


  • At the Candle Shop
  • Wicks

    Candles come in all shapes and sizes for almost any occasion imaginable.  You can easily appreciate the different designs and textures of every candle.  However, you may not know that different candles require different wicks.  In order to achieve a slow, clean burn, you must match the right wick with the right kind of wax.
    The rest of the story....

     


    Download the latest edition of our 35 page catalog with over 120 images.

    Candle CatalogIt 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 new Candle Catalog!
  • Beeswax Candle FAQ
  • Do you add chemicals to your beeswax candles?


    We add no chemicals to our beeswax. All of our wax is 100% natural and we do not filter the wax.
    The story........


    More Beeswax FAQ's
  • At the Vineyard
  • White Winemaking - The story continues!

    What does my Weight Watchers Mug and Niagara have in common?

    Home winemaking should always be fun, easy and practical. You may file this under "Do what I say, Not what I do!"
    More .....


    Want to propagate you own vines. Listen to the expert:

    Grape School

    The Grape School has all the answers to propagating and planting vines.

    * Quick tip for planting
    * Take the strain out of pruning
    * How to protect vines from late frosts
    * And much much more…

    Lon Rombough also sells grape cuttings for hundreds of varieties on his website bunchgrapes.com.

    If you want grape cuttings, you must check out his site!


    Pruning Crew

    Spring Pruning in the Vineyard

    A little reminiscing: We started planting this vineyard in 1983 and have done a lot of pruning and planting over the years. The story.....


    This Month's Grape Recipe - Papaya-Grape Sour Cream Mold
  • Vineyard FAQ
  • What is your favorite grape?

    We get this asked of us all the time. Which grape makes the best wine, best jelly, best juice, ect. This is very difficult to answer & also varies from season to season. Many of our customers have very different tastes than we do.

    My personal favorites as of April, 2007.....

    More Vineyard FAQ's
  • At the Honey Farm
  • Winter Loss & Making Increases

    After checking all of our colonies we found about a 50% loss which is fairly high. Before we had problems with mites the typical loss was 10 to 20%. More....

    This Month's Honey Recipe - Caribbean Honey-Spiced Chicken with Mango
  • Honeyfarm FAQ
  • Why do honeybees swarm?

    Honeybees usually swarm in the Spring.

    When the colony gets too crowded and not enough room inside or perhaps the bees decide that the queen is too old and not laying enough eggs, the honeybee colony will make preparations to swarm. The story.....

    More Honeyfarm FAQ's

    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:  

    Treating honeybees for mites  ••  Purchasing and picking up raw honey - "organic honey" ••  Shipping & candle size questions  ••  What would happen to the vines if they were not pruned?  ••  Source for honey bee packages  ••  Learning to make wine  ••  Thank you for shipping the honey  ••  Tried other candles and like yours better  ••  Do you offer tours of your facilities?  ••  Cool Pictures of Grapes and Berries at Different Stages  ••  Nice site!  ••   Candle making questions  ••  Purchasing honey locally  ••  What do you do to control mites  ••  A note from the mountains  ••  Vineyard in the Rocky Mountains  ••  Candle Catalog

    From our readers
  • Candle Winner & Laugh of the Month
  • Congratulations!

    Spring candle winner: alison.hornberger@nav

    Will this months w*nner,
    alison.hornberger 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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