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Special
Pricing
through
October
Complimentary
votive's
with orders over $25
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
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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
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"The man that really
counts in the world is the doer, not the mere
critic"
Theodore Roosevelt
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Our Sponsors
MS Beacon Foundation
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Greetings from the
Farm!
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.
 New Sign
Our old Farm sign needed a little
work and I sort of made a joke of it (see old picture....). One of
our customers, Rick Waldchen of Image Projections,
emailed us that he could help make us a new sign
and he did. I thank him very much. If you need any
other sign or promotion work visit his
website at .....
Rick also make a fantastic
sweet-spicy mustard. Sorry readers, I tried to
convince him to give us the recipe but he wants to
market it himself. (I don't blame him - the stuff is
fantastic!!)
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At the Candle Shop
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Pick up your
candle order at the vineyard.
We do not stock every candle
we make at our small sales stand. You may want to email us with an order and we
will have it ready when
you arrive at the vineyard on the
weekends.
Go
to our candle search
page to make a selection....
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10 reasons to
choose
beeswax instead of
paraffin!
- Beeswax candles contain
none of the harmful chemicals sometimes
found in paraffin candles.
- Beeswax candles burn
significantly longer than paraffin
candles. The
rest of the story....
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More Beeswax FAQ's |
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Vineyard FAQ
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How is our vineyard
different than others?
I do not know any other
vineyard that has more than 20 varieties of
grapes and sells 100% U-PICK! Since
we are not a winery we do not keep the
premium grapes for ourselves and sell what is
left to local customers. The
story.......
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More Vineyard FAQ's |
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At the Honey Farm
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Honey Harvest
2008
We have been busy extracting this
years honey crop. The farm will be open
another 2 weekends until October 12. Bring in your
containers and fill them up.
Raw
& Unprocessed Honey? Unfiltered Honey?
Pasteurized Honey?
What's the difference?
This article was prompted by a lot of
questions we get - here are the answers.....
NOTES ON OTHER
BEES FROM THE MICHIGAN STATE APIARIST
MICHAEL HANSEN
The article......
Our website has been
translated into German and on a German
website.
Recently we have been contacted by Holger
Grimme from Germany. He wished to translate parts
of our site regarding honeybees and copy it. He has a
lot of very interesting information about German
beekeepers.
Click here for the
letter.....
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This Month's Honey Recipe - Caribbean Burgers with Honey Pineapple Chutney |
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Honeyfarm FAQ
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Why does the honey from
the sales stand vary from year to year.
The honeybees make honey from the
nectar of the flowers that bloom over the
summer, and this is influenced greatly by the
weather - dry, wet, etc.
Some years the honey is darker or
lighter than other years - the beekeeper does
always not have a lot of control in this.
The
story.....
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More Honeyfarm FAQ's |
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Soap Sales Strong
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Our Golden Honey
Soap was very popular at the
vineyard last year.
Our
Unscented Golden Honey soap, our Honey Almond
Oatmeal, our Lavender
(with soothing Lavender essential oils), our Sweet
Muscato, a
fragrance popular with winemakers, and our Hyacinth
scented Honey soap have been very popular this
year.
All of our soap is made according to our own
special formula, using the highest quality ingredients
by our expert soapmaker Laurie Teason in Colorado.
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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:
Need a source for grapevines, ••
Shipping bulk honey, ••
Nice website, ••
Had a great time at the vineyard, ••
Preserving fruit with honey, ••
Warm greetings from Germany! ••
Natural candles, ••
Questions about the disappearing Bee
phenomena in America. •• 3
hour power outage - uses beeswax candles for
light & heat, ••
Chris wants to become a beekeeper, ••
I'm getting grapes on my Concord grapes turn
purple and fall off. •• My
wife learned winemaking in China - when are
the grapes ripe?
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