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03/03/2026

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02/21/2026

🌕 A Night the Moon Turns Crimson 🌕

Total Lunar Eclipse — March 3, 2026 | Blood Moon

On March 3, 2026, the Moon will glide fully into Earth’s deepest shadow and emerge transformed — glowing in rich tones of red and copper. This striking Blood Moon happens as sunlight bends through Earth’s atmosphere, filtering out blues and casting warm hues across the lunar surface. It’s rare, dramatic, and impossible to forget.

⏰ Eclipse Schedule (UTC) • Penumbral eclipse begins: 08:44
• Partial eclipse begins: 09:50
• Total eclipse begins: 11:04
• Maximum eclipse: 11:33
• Total eclipse ends: 12:02
• Partial eclipse ends: 13:17
• Penumbral eclipse ends: 14:22

The Moon will sit completely within Earth’s umbra for nearly 58 minutes, while the deep red tones may linger for up to 82 minutes during the most intense stages.

🌍 What Makes This Eclipse Remarkable ✨ Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue light, letting reds reach the Moon
✨ Air quality and weather can change the Moon’s shade — no two are ever alike
✨ Visible across much of the globe, making it one of 2026’s most accessible lunar events

🔭 Viewing Tips No filters, no protection needed — it’s perfectly safe to watch with the naked eye. Binoculars or a telescope will reveal subtle color shifts and surface details.

A quiet, powerful alignment of Sun, Earth, and Moon — playing out slowly overhead. When the sky puts on a show like this, it’s worth looking up.

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02/11/2026

02/09/2026

The Quilt Patchers of the Adirondack Foothills, New York, 1935
The harsh winters of the Adirondack foothills in 1935 left many families with threadbare blankets and shivering children. The mountains offered little mercy.
Thirteen-year-old Margaret “Maggie” O’Connell gathered the girls and boys into the Quilt Patchers. They collected every scrap of wool, flannel, and feed sack, sewing them into heavy patchwork quilts by firelight. Each quilt was carried through the snow to homes where the cold pressed hardest: the trapper’s cabin with no man left, the widow’s house with thin walls, the family whose stove had gone out.
They draped the quilts over beds and shoulders with gentle hands. In return, families shared what little warmth they had—hot cider, stories, or a place by the fire. The mountains grew quieter in their gratitude.
When spring finally thawed the valleys, the needles were put away, but the Adirondacks still hold the warmth: when the cold tried to break them, the children stitched the community back together.

02/07/2026

Do you know your cones?

In New York State, you can find several native and non-native tree species that grow cones (AKA “conifers”) and we’ve included an example of just a selection of some of them here.

But there are a lot of mis-cone-ceptions about conifers! Check out the facts below and file them away to impress your pals on your next woods walk:
🌲 Not all cones are pinecones. Pinecones only come from pine trees, but there are also spruces, firs, hemlocks, and other trees that grow cones.
🌲 And not all conifers are evergreens. In New York, we have the tamarack—a tree with cones that drops all its needles each year.
🌲 Some cones, like those of the jack pine, are "serotinus." This means they have a resin coating and require wildfire to release their seeds.
🌲 A cone holds seeds, but it is not a fruit. Conifers are gymnosperms, a group of seed-producing plants that don’t make fruit. The word gymnosperm comes from Greek roots and means “naked seed.”

02/05/2026

Giving the Thoughtful Gardeners a huge shout out again this year. Thank you for all that you do!

02/02/2026

01/29/2026

Don't forget our products are available locally at The Bloom Bar in Lowville and Autumn Ridge Goat Farm in Turin, as well as our website www.gardenthymeherbshop.net ! 🤓

Here at the Garden Thyme Herb Shop we have been living with, and relying on Mother Nature and her herbs for over 25 years. It is our hope that you will join us in our journey and try to live life as simply and naturally as possible.