Act Natural Health & Wellness

03/01/2026

We keep thinking the same thing…..

03/01/2026

The most effective pest control in gardening costs $4 and takes 30 seconds to install. It's a broken terracotta pot. In the shade. That's it.

🐸 What one toad does for your garden

American Toads eat about 100 insects per night. Every night from April through October — roughly 200 nights per season. One toad removes around 20,000 insects per year. A pair handles 40,000.

Those insects include slugs, cutworms, beetles, earwigs, ants, sow bugs, mosquitoes, and aphids — the exact species that damage vegetable gardens, flower beds, and lawns. No chemical residue. No application schedule. No harm to pollinators.

🏠 The build — 30 seconds

One terracotta pot, 6 to 8 inches in diameter. About $4 new, or free from your garage.

- Option A — chip or break a 3-inch notch in the rim for a doorway, turn it upside down on bare soil in shade
- Option B — prop the pot on its side at a slight angle using a flat stone, opening facing away from afternoon sun
- Option C — buy a cracked pot for a dollar from a garden center's discount pile. The crack is the door

📍 Placement — this is where most people fail

- In shade — toads dehydrate rapidly in direct sun. Morning shade is essential
- On bare moist soil — not mulch, not gravel. Toads absorb water through their skin by pressing against damp earth. They don't drink through their mouths
- Near water — within 20 to 30 feet of a birdbath, rain garden, or any standing water source. Toads breed in water but live on land
- Near the garden — within 15 feet of your vegetable or flower beds. Toads don't travel far from home base

⏰ When to install

Now. Toads emerge from underground burrows when soil temperatures reach about 50°F. In most of the US, that's 3 to 6 weeks away. If the house is already in place when they emerge, they'll move in immediately. And American Toads are habitat-loyal — once they claim a shelter, they return to it for multiple seasons.

💰 The comparison

- Chemical slug bait — $12 to $18 per application, toxic to dogs and cats and birds, needs reapplying after rain, kills beneficial insects too
- Diatomaceous earth — $8 to $15, works on slugs but also kills beneficial ground beetles, loses effectiveness when wet
- Toad house — $4 one time. Eats slugs and everything else on the pest list. Self-sustaining. Gets more effective over time as the toad establishes territory

One more thing — a toad in your garden attracts garter snakes, which also eat slugs and pest insects, and provides food for owls and hawks. A single $4 pot creates a small food web that amplifies pest control at every level.

100 pests per night. 20,000 per season. One pot in the shade. 🐸

02/28/2026

Look what arrived at Act Natural Health & Wellness, 131 Main Street in Thomaston Almotti Gluten Free Italian baked goods.

Gluten Free!!

Italian Bread, Focaccia aaaaaand

Italian Cookies!!

Stop by today and expore our new Gluten Free Bakery items!!

Custom cakes and pastries to order!

Now.....that's Italian!!

My mother and grandmothers would be so proud!

Mangia!!!

Act Natural Health & Wellness, 131 Main Street in Thomaston

860-482-8477

02/24/2026

Looking for local grains and fresh milled flour?

You can find what you need for your bread baking "kneads" at Act Natural Health & Wellness, 131 Main Street in Thomaston.

Let us know what you"knead" - wheat berries, rye berries, einkorn flour, 00 bread flour and we can rise it up for you!!!

Need a 25 pound bag or a 5 pound bag or a 1 pound box just let us know!!

Give us a call 860-482-8477

And if you are an Act Natural Food Buy Club Member you save 30% off of retail prices when you order 25 pounds!!! Split it with a friend and save!!

Wild Hive Grain Project is located in Clinton Crossing, NY.

Heriloom & Ancient Grains Regionall Grown and Always Freshly Stone Milled!

If you are buyring your flour from a big box store it's full of chemicals and most like is rancid. Yes, flour goes rancid!!

Stop buying CRAP (Commercially Reproduced Awful Products) and get bread baking with the best! You and your family are worth it!!

Join the Act Natural Food Buy Club and save 30% off of retail bulk grain and flour prices on 25 lbs.

Save our farms! Save our food!

Wild Hive Grain Project is PPA (Pam Pinto Approved)!

If we won't eat it, we won't sell it!

860-482-8477

02/24/2026

02/22/2026

Act Natural Health & Wellness ANNOUNCES the OPENING of our Gluten Free Bakery partnership with Almotti Gluten Free Italian Delicacies.

Gluten Free Italian Bread, Foccocia and a variety of delicious cookies!!

Chef Carlo uses his family's traditional Italian bread and cookie recipes made without the gluten!

Arriving the end of this week just in time for the weekend!

We are so excited to offer a traditional Italian Bread without the belly pain!! Get the dipping oil ready! We have that too!!

Act Natural Health & Wellness, 131 Main Street in Thomaston

860-482-8477

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02/22/2026

Ready to schedule a Nutrition Consultation?

Ready to work with our founder and resident nutritionist, Pam Pinto, AADP?

She's ready to help!

Schedule your Nutrition Consultation today!

860-482-8477

As a followup to yesterday's post about the newly-branded T3 (and disappointment that all these companies are putting a gut-messing sugar alcohol in so many products), here is something really good from thyroid patient Patricia Bannon!

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LIST OF T3 MEDS & their inactive ingredients

There are also approx 15 "Repackaged Label" T3 meds which means they use either SigmaPharm or Zydus Pharma & sell under their company. 11 repackaged are SigmaPharm, 4 from Zydus.

See link for all the info here: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/search.cfm?labeltype=all&query=LIOTHYRONINE%20SODIUM&pagesize=50&page=1

1) CYTOMEL
Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate, corn starch, gelatin, stearic acid, sucrose and talc.
Biocon Pharma

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate dihydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, corn starch, gelatin, stearic acid, sucrose and talc.

2) DR REDDY'S (but ask patients about their experience with it.) wDr Reddy’s bought Mayne Pharma’s US Generic Scripts - 2023

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate, microcrystalline cellulose, hypromellose, talc, and colloidal silicon dioxide.

3) NORTHSTAR RX LLC

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate dihydrate, corn starch, gelatin, stearic acid, sucrose and talc.

4) SIGMAPHARM LABORATORIES, LLC – Now LIOMNY

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate dihydrate, corn starch, gelatin, magnesium stearate and mannitol.

5) SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, INC **Does Not Contain Calcium**

Inactive ingredients consist of corn starch, croscarmellose sodium, gelatin type B, magnesium stearate, mannitol, and microcrystalline cellulose.

6) TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA . **Does Not Contain Calcium**

Inactive ingredients consist of corn starch (pregelatinized), edetate disodium, magnesium stearate, and microcrystalline cellulose.

7) ZYDUS LIFESCIENCES LTD formerly known as Cadila Healthcare Limited, is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company.

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate dihydrate, corn starch, gelatin, stearic acid, sucrose and talc.

Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. - Zydus USA is the US generics division of Zydus Lifesciences Limited

Inactive ingredients consist of calcium sulfate dihydrate, corn starch, gelatin, stearic acid, sucrose and talc.

02/22/2026

🐝 I Am the Last to Leave the Hive

Hello, my human friend,

This morning, I was the last to leave the hive.

The others are gone.
Some lost.
Some never returned.

It’s quieter now.
Too quiet.

I am a bee.

The world may call me small, but I carry forests on my feet.
Not alone—others help, too—but my work matters.
With every flower I touch, seeds are set, fruit is formed, and life continues.

I carry hope in my hum.
I carry the future in small, unseen ways.

And I am afraid.

When flowers disappear, we struggle.
When fields turn silent and seasons fall out of rhythm, we fade.

Not every plant depends on me.
But many do.
Wildflowers. Orchards. Gardens. The food you eat without thinking twice.

What happens when blooms grow scarce?

What happens when pollinators vanish, one by one?

Who helps the trees bear fruit?
Who keeps the meadows alive?

You do.

You are not separate from this.
Your choices shape the land I fly through.
Your yards, balconies, roadsides, and farms can be places of refuge—or absence.

Scatter seeds like you’re sowing stars.
Let native flowers return.
Leave space for wild things.
Let the Earth breathe again.

I may be small.
But the work I do is not.

Don’t let silence be the answer.

Please—
don’t let me be the last.

02/01/2026

01/30/2026

MTHFR Variation? Do methylataed B Vitamins adversly affect you?

You may have the MTHR varient where your body's methylation is fast so adding a "methy donor" will actually aggrevate your mental health and/or physical health.

Do you suffer with depression, anxiety, insomnia? Have hives or rashes or itchy skin? Bloat or gassy after eatng certain foods?

Eggs are one man's/woman
s medicine and another man's/woman's poison.

Can't get ride of that chronic candida or SIBO?

The foods you choose to eat and the supplements you choose to use matter!

There is not a one size fits all protocol. No two people are created the same so each food, remedy or supplement will interact with your body unique for you.

Want to learn more? Schedule a Nutrition Consultation with our founder and resident nutritionist, Pam Pinto, AADP and she can help coach you on a new educational journey!!

860-482-8477