Honeyflow Farm

Honey Supers

Honey Supers

Golden Rod

Star Thistle

http://www.honeyflowfarm.com/aboutourfarm.php 

Star Thistle (above two pictures) and Sweet Clover (below pictures) are some of the main summer honey crops in our area. They bloom all summer long. Golden Rod (pictures below) is one of the main Fall honey crops. The honeybees bring this sweet nectar back to the hives and concentrate it into honey

Putting honey supers on in July involves a lot of carrying boxes around. Adding the supers will give the honeybees a lot of room for them to store honey in. This is the last supering that I do before we start to harvest the honey in Mid August. The colonies can become quite tall at this time of the year, sometimes I need an extra box or two to stand on to reach the top. Occasionally they can become unstable and when I return in the fall I find some that the wind has blown over. Sometimes there is 200 to 300 lbs. of surplus honey on some of these large colonies. They are not always that strong, if I can average 100 lbs per colony I figure I am having a good year.

To read more go to www.honeyflowfarm.com/beeproject/beeproject.htm

 Honeyflow Farm owners, Bill and Pat Schnute, located in sunny lower Michigan. Bill is a beekeeper- and also has a vineyard, visit the following links for recipes  >Honey Recipes  - Honey and Homebrewing –  Mead Making  for beekeeping supplies > Beekeeping Supplies & Equipment  or just to educate yourself on honey > The Honey Project – A Pictorial Story of Honey Candle Burning Tips – From Flower to Flame  -  How a honeybee makes beeswax 

 Honeyflow Farm is one of the largest vineyard in Michigan!  They actually have 20  plus varieties of grapes for wine making. For recipes and information information on grapes, check out the following links > Grape Recipes  -  Jelly Making  – Home Winemaking  – Winemaking at Honeyflow Farm – Pictorial - The Grape Project – A Pictorial Story of a Grapevine Growing - Winemaking Supplies & Equipment - Winemaking Articles  - Sugar Conversion Chart  – Mead Making  -Brewers Corner  

This farms is so unique in that it is a vineyard, produces honey, makes mead, makes candles.. one of my favorite accounts that I make soap for. Soap ingredients include, rice bran oil, olive, coconut, palm, fair-trade unrefined shea butter, chamomile, honey– lots of honey… 

My dear friend and photographer, Teresa Archuleta-Sagel shot the  soap pictures below.

Thanks you TAS. Visit her beautiful website at www.tastouchsoaps.com

Wine and HoneyAlmond Oatmeal and Honey

Beekeepers Bar Lavender and Honey

Almond Oatmeal and Honey

Legends International at the Christkindl Market

Stop by Legends International for your handmade Celtic design soap and hand dipped beeswax candles. Select from honey almond, honey wine, honey and oat milk and lavender and honey soap.

Frohe Weihnachten!

Christmas Greetings to All  from the

10^th Annual Denver Christkindl Market

     Come one, Come All! We are now open!

 

  The Denver Christkindl Market opened on Friday at 11:00am on its Premiere Day. The first day proved to be the most successful opening day for the Christmas Market in years. The entire evening was absolutely full of visitors out trying to get the first pick of the wares fresh in from Europe. Again we have our European and Coloradan Vendors offering German and European Gift Items, Foods, Breads, freshly baked, Glühwein and assorted German beers, German Chocolates, Meads, Honeys, Candles and much, much more. The market has grown 30% over last years in and size and the number of visitors has already grown proportionally.

 The Market is located at Skyline Park South on the 16^th Street Mall at the crossing of Arapahoe St. and between 15^th and 16^th street. The Christmas Market moved to this location last year on invitation of the City of Denver and in close cooperation with the Denver Downtown Partnership.

Dates for the market are:

 November 27 – December 24^th (one day longer than last year).

 Opening Times are:

 Sunday thru Wednesday            11:00am to 7:00pm

            Thursday thru Saturday              11:00am to 9:00pm

 The Denver Christkindlmarket is hosted by the German American Chamber of Commerce of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region and presented by the German Cultural Foundation, both organisations of which are there to promote the German Cultural Heritage in Colorado and to keep Colorado and the Region on the global economic map!

 Come on down and experience true “Gemütlichkeit”

and the genuine atmosphere of Ol’ Germany!

Railyard Ale Beer Soap

Marty Jones and myself  have been hard at work to create an excellent soap using Railyard Ale as a key ingredient.  Our focus was to use the same ingredients in the soap as in the making of Railyard Ale.  The soap has a rich moisturizing creamy lather with lots of little bubbles and the best part the soap smells and looks good enough to eat!

Stay tuned for a picture of the beer soap naked and all wrapped up in it’s new soap label.

RAILYARD ALE SOAP FOR THE WYNKOOP BREWERY

My friend TAS (Teresa Archuleta-Sagel) did the labels for this soap! Check out here website at www.tastouchsoaps.com.

Railyard Ale soap article

Wynkoop Brewery
1634 18th Street,
Denver, CO 80202
http://wynkoop.com

Busy Making Soap

For the past few days I have been making beer soap and tea soaps.

Chai Tea

Chamomile and Honey

Peppermint

Sleepy Time (Spearmint)

The beer and pitch soap is very fragrant

Now for some Beer soap pictures

Beer and Pine Pitch Soap

Fall colors on our way to Milwaukee

It was time to go back to Colorado, on the way to the Milwaukee airport we saw a few spots that were pretty…

On the way to Milwaukee

Have no idea what these purple berries areLove the red leavesLove the red leaves

Love the red leaves

Favorite neighborhood in my home town

I love staying at my sisters house when I come home. The neighborhood is on the west side of Iron Mountain close to Pine Mountain. Besides looking at all the beautiful colored leaves I love looking at all the old homes.. here are some of my favorites

Backside of Jo’s house

Front side of Jo’s house (Fleshiem St)

Favorite little house- 2 doors down from Jo’s

Brown stucco with field stone house and carriage house

Brown stucco with field stone house (side view of house)

Brown stucco with field stone house

White house on the corner

Brown stucco with field stone house

White house on corner- side yard view

White house on corner

Unusaul style

Unusaul style- check out the windows

Beautiful house and yard

Beautiful house and yard

Fall in the UP

Upper Peninsula

I am taking a break from handmade soap making  to visit family, celebrate our anniversary and enjoy the lovely fall colors. Tim and I were married here on Oct 8th, 26 years ago. Anyways, the UP refers to the upper peninsula of Michigan (the pink color on the map indicates the UP)

The weather has been mostly cold and rainy with a little bit of sunshine here and there. Hopefully the trees will peak while I am here to see the beauty.

Here are some pictures of the leaves changing colors (will continue to add photos)

West side of Iron Mountain, Michigan

Breitung- Balsam Street

Breitung- Balsam Street

While enjoying the sites we noticed this house for sale, the price made us do a double take. Take a guess at the asking price.

Breitung- Balsam Street

West side of Iron Mountain

West side of Iron Mountain

West side of Iron Mountain

Upper Peninsula

The sign said $2000! It looks like it sits on a lot and half. Tim went up and read the sign and it said something about $2000 down and then in smaller print it said it was a land contract of $200 a month and something about $9000.

My Soap Shop Gets a New Look

Since the July hail storm our house has been under construction- new roof, new stucco, new windows, new garage door.. Instead of replacing my shop garage door it will be replaced with French doors.  It will be a treat to open the doors and get a nice breeze going through the soap shop and more natural light!

Tim and Ben have been working hard constructing the new opening, first they framed in the footer, next they poured the footer, framed in the opening to accommodate the door. Yesterday they  trimmed the roof so it is ready for the roofers.  Monday the electrician will install outdoor lighting. The door should be installed in about 3 weeks along with new house windows and stucco. Stay tuned.

Framing in the footer

New footer

Ben and Tim working on shop

Opening framed in

Sept 28, 2009- ready for electrical expection. That’s it till the middle of October.

Wilderness Soap Company @ Western Welcome Weetk in Littleton Colorado

Julie Godard of Wilderness Soap Company will be at Western Welcome Week this Saturday in Littleton, Colorado.

Come out and enjoy the fun, festivities and parade! Stop by Julie’s tent and check out her goods!

Western Welcome Week

Julie’s website is www.wildernesssoapcompany.com , email addy is julie@wildernesssoapcompany.com

Chefie G’s Food Recipes

My son, Grant did all the food for his grandfathers 80th birthday party. Many have asked me to post the recipes, so here they are. You will have to down size the recipes

Salads

Horseradish Slaw

5 qts shredded green cabbage

5 qts shredded red cabbage

2.5 qts shredded carrot

1 cup finely sliced green scallions

8 Granny Smith green apples- cubed 1/4″ tossed into 3 T lemon juice before mixing with slaw mix

 

Dressing

2 cups of apple cider vinegar

1 1/4 c of sugar

4 t black pepper

Mix the above ingredient until sugar is dissolved. Combine with slaw mix and let sit for 30 minutes

1 qt mayonnaise

1 c sour cream

1 1/2 c horseradish- grated

1/4 spicy ground mustard

Mix ingredient , thoroughly then mix in slaw and let sit for at least 1 hour

Salsa Bar

Black Bean Cumin Dip

2 pounds of cooked black beans

1 1/2 t chopped garlic

1 1/2 t toasted cumin seed, ground fine

1/4 cup cilantro leaves

1/4 cup sour cream

1/2 jalapeno, chopped

Salt and pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients in food processor till smooth

Grilled Corn Salsa

4 ears corn

2 jalapeno peppers

2 tomatoes, stemmed, seeded and cut into 1/2 cubes

1/2 cup diced red onion

1/2 t minced garlic

3 T minced cilantro leaves

1 T minced peppemint

1/4 c squeezed lime juice

2 T olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste

Peel corn and place on grill till cooked. Remove corn from cob. Grill japapenos for 5 minutes turning periodically and let cool. Stem and seed jalapenos then mince. Add all ingredients, stir to combine..

Will post more recipes as I get them from Grant.