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Special
Pricing
through
February & March
See our
21 Day Sale
and Take
an Additional
5% Special Discount
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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.
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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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I don't know
the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody."
Bill
Cosby
(1937 - )
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Our Sponsors
MS Beacon Foundation
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| At the Candle Shop |
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2
New
Figurines!
2 new fiqurines have been
added to our candle store
collection.
The Honey
Pot (shown above) for $8.50
and the Tortoise
(below) for $5.95
New E-Commerce Program!
Our candle shop
and all the e-commerce pages have received a
"face lift and make over".
All the same products are there but the
program running the store has been up-graded
from a "cgi" to a "php"
style program. If I was a real computer geek
I could tell you the difference but all I can
say is it has more "bells and
whistles" and works better (although I
still have a few bugs to work out). If you
have an interest and would like some info, here is the
link to the quikstore.com website.
Program
improvements now or coming soon:
- Better cart visibility
- Customer order tracking and
history
- Coupon options
- Displays: "Customers who
bought the (product ordered) also
bought:"
- More "Local pickup
options"
Check
out our new Candle Search Page
21 Day Sale - 5% Special Discount!
Things have been a
little slow around here lately and just like
any other business or government entity we
are going to reduce prices to stimulate
economic activity. You can call this a Sale,
Price Cut, Tax Cut, Discount or anything you
want (It is all the same thing).
When you check out on
your next order, enter
"specialoffer" in the promotion
discount area and receive a 5% discount on
your order. Offer good through March 15, 2008
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| Beeswax Candle FAQ |
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How wide
are your
tapers and do they vary in size?
We guarantee that ALL OF OUR
TAPERS WILL VARY IN SIZE because they are all
hand made. The
story.....
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More Beeswax FAQ's |
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Winter
at the
vineyard!
The vines and ground are
still snow covered when writing
this. Not much will be done in the
vineyard until April when we prune the vines.
There has been a lot of snow this winter and
it is hard to estimate any winter damage - we
will wait until next month.
This year we are going to
purchase a "hand hedging" tool and
try to do a little hedging on some of the
heavy foliage rows such as concord and
delaware. I am goin to try to make a
horizontal cut about 2 feet below the top
wire. Hopefully this will assist the pruners
in making spurs on the top cordons. I will
let you know in the next newsletter.
White
Winemaking - The story continues!
More white winemaking notes
- We just finished bottling the rest of our
niagara. A lot of it was given to
our neighbor for plowing snow when our
tractor had some problems.
The St. Peppin has been sweetened
and is now ready to bottle, it is very nice.
Now all we have left to finias of our 2006
vintage is the Seyval and Cayuga.
The
rest of the story.....
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This Month's Grape Recipe - Grape Parfait Pie Recipe |
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| Vineyard FAQ |
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Do the vines
need the honeybees for pollination?
This question was prompted by an
interesting question sent to us:
Hi Honeyflow
farm,
I'm a beekeeping hobbyist in
South Carolina. This weekend I was
looking
in to the relationship between
vineyards and bees, wondering about
pollination. I never found
anything, but it looks as if y'all might
know.
Do wine grapes require the kind
of pollination that bees do? If so, has
anyone come up with the idea of
marketing honey associated with a
certain grape? I can just
see the Napa valley tasting shops selling
Cabernet Honey at $8/lb.
Also, do you grow your grapes organically and
if not, how do you protect the
bees from vineyard pesticides?
The
answer......
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| At the Honey Farm |
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Winter
2008 at the
Honey Farm
During Jan-Feb-March not a lot
happens with the honeybees. We will soon do a
"colony check" on all colonies to
see if they are alive and need feed. If
necessary we feed them some dry sugar or
honey.
We will probably order some package
bees that will be installed in April.
Click
here for early season beekeeping
pictures....
Did you
know that, like the pilgrims, honey bees also
made the journey across the
Atlantic?
European honey bees were brought over
to mainland North America in 1622. They
were shipped overseas from England to the
Colony of Virginia. From there on, the
population sharply increased in the New World.
From the “History
of Beekeeping in the United States” by
Everett Oertel (maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/HBBiology/history.htm)
Honey
Drop™
In January, Island Abbey Foods
Ltd. introduced the Honey Drop™, the
first 100% pure, solid honey product. The
Honey Drop™ is an individual serving of
dried honey without any additives or
binding agents, making it a neat and
convenient sweetener for hot beverages. The
story.....
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This Month's Honey Recipe - Broiled Fish with Tangy Sweet 'n Sour Sauce |
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| MS Beacon Foundation |
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MS
Beacon
Foundation - A Non-Profit Organization
Helping Real People with Real Needs
Recently I was contacted by a
neighbor of mine, Tony Rubino with his story
about how Multiple Sclerosis has changed his
life. He was no longer able to work so he
decided to help other people by establishing
the MS
Beacon Foundation.
Last fall Pat & I attended one
of his fund raisers - inspirational, great
music, a silent auction and lots more.
Please
go to the website at
www.msbeaconfoundation.org.....
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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:
Pruning vines in backyard
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Do you press grapes?
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Upper Michigan Winery wants some Foch
•• Do
you do bee presentations?
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beekeeper makes comments
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Likes our products
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Good vine pruning pictures
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Long conversation with another candlemaker
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Lots of beeswax
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Candlemaking & wick size questions
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Red Beeswax?
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Prompt service
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Neat beeswax fire starter
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