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Read our latest newsletter at the bottom of this page!

Read our latest newsletter at the bottom of this page!

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Honeyflow Farm Newsletter Summer Issue July - August 2008 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 From our readers Candle Winner & Laugh of the Month   This Month's Sale Items   ON SALE All 2 Inch Diameter (Small Size) Pillars 3 Inch Tall List Price: $7.25 Special Price: $ 5.80 6 Inch Tall List Price: $9.25 Special Price: $7.40 9 Inch Tall List Price: $11.25 Special Price: $9.00       *************   Special Pricing through July & August       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. SUBSCRIBE NOW     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.   The finished product. View our New Pictorial On How We Make These Candles.     "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas (1884-1968) (US Socialist Politician) The Quotations Page   Our Sponsors   Candleshop Creations Richmond Worthogs   MS Beacon Foundation   "MS Beacon Foundation has an unwavering passion and commitment to help those stricken with Multiple Sclerosis."    Quick Links... Our Main Page The Vineyard The Honey Farm The Candle Shop The Golden Honey Soap Shop The Stained Glass Factory     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. At the Candle Shop   Candle Wicks Most consumers usually think of a candle's shape, color or fragrance as its most important element. Most candle manufacturers, though, would probably say it's the wick that makes the candle. More ......         This is a good time to order our Small Size (2 inch diameter) pillars. On Sale 20% Off!    Details........         Beeswax Candle FAQ   Where does the beeswax come from? Our beeswax is from our own Michigan honeybees and other local beekeepers. The honeybees make the wax is from the nectar of clovers, thistles and other wildflowers native to our area. The wax is not filtered, only lightly strained.   More Beeswax FAQ's At the Vineyard   Summer 2008 in the Vineyard Two frost events this spring seriously damaged this years crop. Freezing temperatures in late April damaged a lot of buds but it was mainly a "thinning" event. The second freeze was around Memorial Day weekend (click on any image to enlarge it) when the vines were pushing a lot of buds and grape clusters were visible. The damage was very light up near the top of the hill by our sales stand, but was much worse down the hill on the East end of the vineyard. Damage varied from 10% to 75% loss, some varieties were hit harder than others and even different areas in the rows. The pictures show shoots next to each other in the same row - some damaged & some fine. On the good side, since we have many different varieties we will still have lots of grapes to pick. Even the ones with less crop may ripen earlier and be sweeter. We will have more updates in the fall.   May and June are very busy months and we had a lot of rain in June. We are busy now controlling molds weeds caused by the weather. At least the rain made the rows easier to cultivate. In July and August there is more cultivating, mowing and preparing for our harvest in September. Our "Year in the Vineyard" is one of the most viewed pages on our site and we recently did a "makeover" on it. Check out our new page...... White Wine With the Benefits of Red Breaking story from Newsmax.com Lovers of white wine may soon be able to get the same cardiovascular benefits as those who drink red wine. Red wine has been shown to be rich in antioxidants that fight heart disease. It lowers the risk of a heart attack, and if you are unlucky enough to have one, it may lower your risk of having another. Studies have shown red wine can also raise your levels of HDL (good cholesterol) and lower LDL (bad cholesterol). Story continues on the Newsmax.com website........ This Month's Grape Recipe - Pasta Salad with Grapes - A cool summer recipe! Vineyard FAQ   How can I get the vinegar smell out of pails and barrels? It is extremely difficult to get vinegar bacteria out of containers. Someone recently told me that they picked some nice grapes at our vineyard and used pickle pails that were available. The wine they made tasted like vinegar. More ...... More Vineyard FAQ's At the Honey Farm   Summer 2008 at the Honey Farm During early May all of our colonies were checked and split into 2 if they were strong enough. Click here for pictures on spring beekeeping........ 30 new colonies were created by installing "Package Bees" - These are packages of 2lbs of bees and a queen. These packages came from California. Click here for pictures of package bee installation..... Colony Collapse Disorder Most beekeepers in our area lost a lot of colonies over the winter. Many people are now thinking these losses may be to a new strain of "Nosema" disease. This affects the digestive system of honey bees and gives them dissentary. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), formerly called Fall Dwindle Disease, refers to the unexplained disappearance and dying off of many honey bee colonies being observed across the United States. For more information on CCD, click on these links: * The Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium (MAAREC) * Bee-Alert Technology's National Bee Loss Survey May & June is the swarm season and we always get a few calls to pick up swarms. Honeybees swarm when they get too crowded and then they leave with most of the bees and the old queen. Queen cells are left in the old location and the colony will continue on. This is how nature replaces itself. We recently picked up a local swarm and brought it home in a cardboard box. I dumped them in an empty hive body and every thing looked fine - To me, anyway. The next day I checked them and the bees were gone - they decided they wanted to live somewhere else. Click here for info about a swarm that landed in the vineyard a few years ago....... Link to: Why do honeybees swarm?..... In July the colonies will be checked again and more honey supers will be added. Although we will start removing some comb honey during the summer, most of our crop will be harvested in the fall. Honey as a cough suppressant for children over 12 months old. Honey has been used as a home remedy for centuries to help alleviate some of the symptoms associated with a common cold. Researchers from Penn State College of Medicine have recently published a study comparing honey to over-the-counter medicines for relief of upper respiratory infection symptoms, such as cough. To read the full story, click here...... Storing Honey Storing honey is easy. Simply keep it in a cool, dry, location away from direct sunlight in a tightly covered container. Honey tends to absorb moisture, which can lower its quality. It is not necessary to refrigerate honey. In fact, it's much easier to handle if you don't.  More... This Month's Honey Recipe - Honey-Butternut Squash Soup Honeyfarm FAQ   How long can honey be stored and still safely eaten? Apparently, honey can last forever, if stored well. The ancient Egyptians left honey, among other assorted luxuries, in burial chambers to make the dead happy. Some of it, unearthed in modern times, is still edible! More Honeyfarm FAQ's From our readers   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:   Candle Making problems  ••   Local pickup of honey  ••   Where can I get grape plants  ••   I love my candles  ••   Cinnamon Creamed Honey  ••   Translating parts of our site into German & Varroa Mite problems  ••   Where do you get your Bird scare eye ballons  ••   Melting point of beeswax  ••   Candle wick problems  ••   More raw honey and wick questions From our readers Candle Winner & Laugh of the Month   Congratulations! Summer candle winner: paolucci5611 Will this months w*nner, paolucci5611 please contact us and send your address 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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