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| 2005 Weekly
Picking Updates |
Week
6 - Oct 7 to 9, 2005
Week 5 - Sept
30 to Oct 2, 2005
Week
4 - Sept
23 to Sept 25, 2005
Week 3
- Sept 16 to Sept 17, 2005
Week
2 - Sept 9 to Sept 11
Week
1 - Sept 2 to Sept 4
|
Harvest
2005 Newsletter |
Harvest
at the Vineyard
Prize
Winning Wine!
Vineyard
FAQ
Harvest
Grape Recipe |
Pick
up Candles at Vineyard
From
Flower to Flame
Beeswax
FAQ
Raw?
Pasteurized?
HoneyFarm
FAQ
Harvest
Honey Recipes |
| From
our Readers Bee Pollen?
•• Pectin in bulk, ••
Vignoles juice, •• Best grapes
for wine, •• Grapes in Chicago, ••
Newsletter - Freezer jam, •• Opening
earlier this year? •• Won a medal in
State Fair with his wine, •• What to
do with beeswax, •• Raw honey, ••
When to pick grapes, •• Wicks
for votives, •• Bulk honey price, ••
Frontenac grapes, •• Nuisance
bees, •• Jelly Bags, ••
Nice website, •• Tours? ••
Africanized bees, •• More nuisance
bees, •• White beeswax. |
| Summer
2005 Newsletter |
Clean
Cultivation in the Vineyard
Replacing
trunks, Bloom, New vines
A
wine war
Sweetening
and filtering wine.
Preserving
Grape Leaves Summer
Grape Recipe
Candle
W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
New
Candle Catalog is Completed
Beeswax
Candle FAQ
New
Comb Honey Complexion Soap
Checking
Colonies
Summer
Honey Recipes
Candle
W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
| From
our Readers Nuisance
honeybees? •• Votive burn time, ••
Growing grapes in England, ••
Karl Bailey info, •• LBS of grapes for
5/50 gallons wine, •• 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. |
Early
Spring
2005
Newsletter
|
Pruning
Season, New vines
Making
Red Wine at the Farm - (Continued)
Winemaking
Hq Website
Cato's
Grape Bread
Candle
W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
New
Candles Added
Checking
colonies, Raising Queens
Spring
Honey Recipes
Candle
W*nner & Laugh of the Month |
| From
our Readers Partylite Candles,
•• New beekeepers, ••
Wants to plant a few vines, ••
Light colored pillars, •• Keeping honey
from granulating, •• Growing grapes in
Gratiot County Michigan, •• Reducing
acidity, •• Dipping candles, ••
Making wine in Tennessee, •• Thanks
for the order, •• Where to get winemaking
supplies, •• from the Director Of The
Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum |
| Feb/March
2004 Newsletter |
Vineyard
Notes
Local Meaderies & Winemaking Shops
Must
Analysis
Feb/March
grape recipe
|
Changes
to our WebSite
March
at the Honey Farm
Honey,
Have You Considered Yoga?
March
Honey Recipe |
| From
our readers Moving
concord vines, •• making
beeswax candles for 10 years, ••
wanted to know it you used cotton, lead free wicks, ••
watch the beeswax candle dipping process, ••
your honey is wonderful, ••
in the process of developing our own site - I happened
to find yours and found it excellent. ••
revised total on our order, ••
make candles in the plastic molds you see every where,
•• I'm allergic to bee
stings and swell very badly when stung.Will I show any type of
reaction, if i smell of beeswax candles? ••
a bunch of great questions, ••
science project involving an experiment comparing beeswax
candles to paraffin candles. ••
Your products are very beautiful. Do you have a catalogue
you could send me, ••
What do you charge for picking grapes for home winemakers? ••
AS A POLISH TRADITION WE BURN BAYBERRY CANDLES EACH CHRISTMAS
EVE, •• Help Identify
grape picture on a cake. |
| December
2003 |
Christmas at Honeyflow Farm, Bloom
or No Bloom, The Christmas Stocking, Vineyard is closed for
season, High acid wines, New Magazine, December Grape Recipe,
Honey harvest completed, Free Book, Questions on what heat does
to honey, December Honey Recipe.
This months e-mails: Do the 6.5 tapers fit standard candle
stick holder? •• What
type of wicks do you use? ••
Moving grapevines ••
Growing grapes in Florida •• Is
your honey raw? •• Substituting
honey for sugar •• I
would like to purchase some of your exquisite candles for my
holiday list but I do not have a credit card. |
| Lapeer
County Concert Choir Christmas Concert |
Annual Christmas Concert. We will be
performing The Vivaldi Gloria on Saturday, December 6 at 7:00
p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Lapeer, Sunday, December
7 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Imlay City,
and Saturday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m.at North Branch Wesleyan
Church in North Branch. |
| November
2003 |
Flower to flame Pictorial
Have you ever wondered how beeswax is made? Vineyard is closed
for season, Winemaking Pictorial, Chateau Valerio, The "Winemakers"
Novel - A Great Read! November Grape Recipe. The Honey harvest
is almost completed , The Importance of Bees in Wartime Part
II, November honey recipe.
This months e-mails: Purchasing concord vines
•• Freezer
Grape Jam • •
Where can I purchase some Honey Mead? • •
Is it easy to make mead? •
• Using pictures on website
• • " fluffy
grape pie recipe" |
| September
Picking Up Date - Week 6 |
Ripening up-dates for the Last weekend
of Oct,
10,11 & 12, 2003 |
| October
2003 |
THE NATIONAL CANDLE ASSOCIATION,
The Grape crop was very small, but Grape Pails are popular,
New Booklet to Download, Do grapes need a frost to ripen? Interview,
Chemical in red wine may contribute to longer life, Northeastern
Vine Supply, Double A Vineyards, The Honey Harvest Continues,
Study shows why boy bees have no dads, The Importance of Bees
in Wartime, October honey recipe, Kalaj Family Winemaking Tradition,
This months e-mails: "MEHU-LIISA" pot ••
Raw honey, •• How
can i stop the fermentation process with niagara grape juice?
•• Ice Wine ••
Science fair project on candles ••
Making beeswax tapers ••
Did I lose my free grapes offer? ••
Damage of last winter on your vines? ••
Blocks of beeswax? ••
PDF catalog •• Winemaking
questions •• What is the
best way to store honey •• We
had a good time visiting your farm today! ••
Weekly drawing ••
Never received candles? |
| September
2003 |
Burning Candles Safely, Harvest
season at the Vineyard, Are you receiving our Picking Updates?
New Grape Pails (Bags), Protecting the grapes from the birds,
Tips from Winemaker Magazine, Our trip to Bully Hill winery
in New York, September grape recipe, The Honey harvest is starting,
Sept Honey Recipe, Raw & Unprocessed Honey? Unfiltered Honey?
Pasteurized Honey? Whats the difference? Mead Makers are preparing
for the fall honey harvest.
This months e-mails:
Won First Place with your Baco Noir, Second Place with your
Marechal Foch, and Fourth Place with your Cayuga/Horizon blend
at the 2003 Michigan State Fair •• Question
About Raw Uprocessed Honey and Regular Honey •• filtered
grape juice? •• Where
do you buy bird net? •• Did
you make your own crank for the bird netting? •• Love
your site - Questions •• Northeastern
Vine Supply •• Candle
winner! |
| July/August
2003 |
Shedding Light on the Candle's History,
New Candle Catalog, Bloom in the Vineyard, Vine size increases
dramatically, Some winter damage, Try rose wine this year, Bernard
Call is in Washington State working at Chateau St. Michele, New
products this fall, Understanding Grape Berry Development, July/August
grape recipe. Checking colonies, Comb honey supers, The Buzz About
Honey, July Honey Recipe •• Is it too early to place
an order for grape juice for the fall? ••
Recipe for whipped honey? ••
Do you sell grape leaves?? •• Looking
for a few Einset grape vines for my home garden. ••
I enjoyed your grape pictures. |
| June
2003 |
New Candle Catalog to Download and Print, New vines
& grow tubes, Grape buds are growing, MSU course in viticulture,
Interesting articles to check out. Checking colonies - Eric Fisher
helped this year, Pollination, June honey recipe, Readers comments:
Starting a hive in my backyard •• small
experimental vineyard in central Virginia ••
send me one of your catalogs ••
do you have to have a male and female grape plants ••
how much yeast to add to the starter for mead ••
where can I purchase a machine for making stuffed grapeleaves?
•• Do you carry the chocolate honey combs?
•• What materials do you use for your
wicks? •• Trying to identify the bottle
of rose wine. |
| May
2003 |
Beeswax candles heped in ice
storm, Pruning time in the vineyard, MSU course in viticulture,
New vines planted, May grape recipe, Spring colony checks, Package
bees, May honey recipe, Readers comments: How to prune grapes
•• I"m new at beekeeping - dead bees
•• Could you tell me what a bee repellent
is? •• Grease patties ••
How to make my own candles for home use ••
Orange-date muffin recipie •• Do you
make "pie candles"? •• My
son and i are getting ready to plant 700 chardonnay vines. |
| April
2003 |
Candle Care & Use. Useful tips from the National
Candle Association. We have added a link to a new "Gift
Card" page. Pruning time in the vineyard, MSU course
in viticulture, Interesting links, April grape recipe. Pruning
time in the vineyard, MSU course in viticulture, Interesting links,
April grape recipe. Winter Damage, April Honey Recipe - Puppy
Chow. Here are samples of this months e-mails: Great
Service!!!!! •• Can I pick up my order
at the farm •• A friend introduced me
to your farm •• Beeswax to finish my brick
floors •• Send your newsletter to an interested
person who does not have a computer?? ••
Info on comb honey is not clear •• Sell
your raw honey in the large buckets? •• Looking
for old fashioned pillar candles that WILL drip ••
Baco grapes here in Tasmania, Australia ••
Want to see your wines and get a lesson on wine making. |
| March
2003 |
Candle Making, Candle Decorating Styles, New Products, MSU course
in viticulture, Book Review - Northern Wineworks, Turkeys Eating
Grapes? Winebarrel Plus, March grape recipe. Checking Colonies,
Famous Beekeepers, Sweet & Spicy Dip. Restoring Afghanistan
Agriculture - Grape Culture - Fruit Grower Magazine. This months
comments: Starbucks, clover honey, red wine vinegar - apple cider
vinegar, zinc core votives, grapevine winter damage, Sterling
Hts winemaking. |
| February
2003 |
Beeswax Candlemaking, Candle Burning Tips, February at the Honey
Farm, What type of honey do we sell at our farm? Raw
& unprocessed? Wildflower? Pasteurized? New this year is a
5 lb decorative plastic honey container, February Honey Recipe,
February in the Vineyard, MSU course in viticulture, February
grape recipe, Two good articles on the Winemaker Magazine site,
February grape recipe, How Honeyflow Farm was started, This months
comments: Red wine vinegar, shipping to Honduras, black bear legislation,
honeybee science project, planting grapes in Illinois. |
| January
2003 |
Beeswax Candlemaking, January at the honey farm, wrapping honeybee
colonies, changes in honey prices, the wedding ritual, january
honey recipe, January in the vineyard, MSU course in viticulture,
january grape recipe, "Handel's Messiah" , This months
comments: Free votives, 2003 beekeeper calendars, growing grape
vines, fast service, burn times of candles, Thank you for making
this experience possible, My dad will love his Michigan honey,
January candle w*nner is, selzer@kermantel.net |
| December
2002 |
Make this a Beeswax Christmas!
December at the Honey Farm, Yellow Jackets, December in the Vineyard,
MSU Course in Viticulture & Enology, New Grape Growing Book,
December Grape Recipe, The Lapeer County Concert Choir, Melting
beeswax, Beekeeping supplies, Is the farm open to browse the items
or is it just orders from the Internet, Any stores in the West
Palm Beach? Yellow jackets, different qualities of 100% beeswax,
Wine via internet? December Candle W*nner is = da_ploy@zwallet.com
& Laugh of the Month |
Lapeer
County Concert Choir Christmas Concert
December 2002
|
Handel's Messiah |
| November
2002 |
November in the vineyard,
Clean up time, Netting removal, New style training system, November
Grape Recipe, The honey harvest! November Honey Recipe, New Candles
for the Holidays! Interested in grape farm, scented beeswax, white
beeswax, October candle winner, green grape jelly didn't thicken,
I can't believe that we missed your season, I am looking for a
place to get married, canadice wine problem, beeswax for making
skin moisturizing cremes, heat source using beeswax?
November candle winner is, ythigpen1@comcast.net |
| October
2002 |
October in the Vineyard,
Interview with John Bishop - winemaker! Chateau Valerio, October
Grape Recipe, The honey harvest! October Honey Recipe, final preparations
for our 11 piece Nativity Set, Winemaker Magazine, Michigan Wine
Facts, "From
our Readers"
October candle winner is, rosebud7188@cs.com. |
| September
2002 |
September
in the Vineyard, Preventing Bird Damage, Our Grape Pictorial
- They are Finaly Ripe! September Grape Recipe. The honey harvest
is just starting! Honey & Homebrewing, It's Mead Making
Time! September Honey recipe! Our Honey & Beekeeping Pictorial
is almost complete. Our Summer Winery Tours - Warner Winery
in Paw Paw Michigan, Augusta Winery & Mt. Pleasant Winery
in Augusta, Missouri.Sandra Silfven's Wine Website &
Winemaker Magazine Website, Wax
dolls, Baco
Noir juice, What
types do you have? Making
jelly and jam from purple grapes, More
Baco Noir juice , "honey
powder" , Bees
wax for leather and timber, Pick
and hold 700 lbs of Concord, More
grape jelly, Candle-making
classes? , Beeswax
to use making my lotions and creams, DeChanunac
and Cayuga White, I
am the august candle winner!!!! |
| August
2002 |
Vineyard and Honey
Road Side Market will be opening on Friday September 6, We have
changed our shipping method, Adding honey supers, Harvesting comb
honey, Quick Ways to Sweeten Every Meal, August honey recipe,
Weed mowing, Preparing for fall harvest, Pictures of vine &
grapes, August grape recipe, Our Summer Winery Tours - St. Julian's
& Blumenhof's Vineyards, E. C. Kraus, Sino Refractometers
& Wine Quality Consultants,Spring
Frosts, Large
Candles, Grape
Hull Jam?, Three
Rivers, MI , Meadery
in the Traverse City area?, 800
lbs. of grapes last year, Moulds
& Scents |
| July 2002 |
Honey supers on, Comb
Honey supers on, July Honey Recipe - Hard Honey Cookies, Bloom
in the Vineyard, Weed Control, Soap Bars for Deer Control, July
Grape Recipe - Seedless Grape Coffee Cake , New Red Wine Health
Benefits!!! Comments/Questions/Recipes from our readers - Field
of Flowers Nunnery -Beeswax Soap, Creamed Honey Crystals, Dried
Honey, 6 bushels of concord grapes, Beeswax Votive Scents |
| June 2002 |
Swarm Season, Spring Check, Raising
Queens & June honey recipe! Spring Frost! Major
Damage This Time! T-Corks! More Winemaking Contests! This is a
new section for Comments/Questions/Recipes from our readers -
Cylinders, farm improvements, Concords, Queen rearing, naturally
granulated honey |
| May 2002 |
New queens arrived, New honey pictorial
page, May is a big pollination month, May honey recipe, Spring
frost in vineyard, Winemaking contest, Grape picture project,
May grape recipe, Comments/Questions from our readers, I need
your help again! |
| April
2002 |
Pruning time, Our grape project -
watch grapes grow during the year, Grape gumdrops, Breeder queens
ordered, "I don't eat honey" |
| March 2002 |
How we got started in this business,
What's happening at the Honey Farm, March Honey Recipes, and Breakfast
Tips With Honey, Snow on our Cayuga vine |
| February
2002 |
Wax color, creamed honey, checking
colonies in late winter, Meet Cayuga, row 34 - You will see detailed
pictures of all the changes from pruning time to harvest time. |
| January
2002 |
Beeswax history & recipes, January
in the Honeyfarm, January in the Vineyard |
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