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09/06/2025

September means the start of “Tea Season”!!! 🫖 We have a lot of stores that carry our products, but here’s a shout out to our Lewis County stores!!! Visit these wonderful small businesses and you’ll find a lot of great products!! ❤️

09/06/2025

Our teas are now available in Lowville at Divine Juice and Eatery. Stop in and enjoy some great food at this wonderful place!

09/05/2025

08/28/2025

This little duck-billed platypus will grow up to be the only venomous egg-laying mammal on the planet.

The duck-billed platypus is one of the most fascinating and unique creatures on Earth a true evolutionary marvel. Native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, this semi-aquatic mammal looks like a mashup of several animals: it has the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the webbed feet of an otter, and it lays eggs like a reptile, yet it's undeniably a mammal.

Belonging to a rare group called monotremes (egg-laying mammals), the platypus is one of only five surviving species in this group the others being echidnas. Female platypuses lay one to three leathery eggs and keep them warm by curling around them until they hatch. Once born, the mother nurses her young, but here's another twist: she doesn't have n!pples. Instead, milk is secreted through pores in the skin and pools on grooves in her abdomen for the babies to lap up.

The platypus's duck-like bill isn't just for show it's a highly sensitive organ packed with electroreceptors, allowing the animal to detect the electric fields of prey underwater, such as insects, larvae, small crustaceans, and worms. This sensory ability is so advanced that the platypus hunts with its eyes, ears, and nostrils closed, relying entirely on this sixth sense while diving.

Despite its adorable appearance, the male platypus has a venomous spur on its hind legs.
During the breeding season, this spur can deliver a painful, though non-lethal, sting to rivals or threats a rare trait among mammals.

Measuring about 30-45 cm (12-18 inches) in body length, with a flat, paddle-like tail, and weighing between 1 to 2.5 kg (2-5.5 lbs), the platypus is perfectly adapted to its aquatic lifestyle. It spends much of its time in freshwater rivers, streams, and lakes, where it swims gracefully using its front webbed feet and steers with the back ones.

Currently, the duck-billed platypus is listed as Near Threatened, primarily due to habitat loss, water pollution, and the impacts of climate change. Conservation efforts are underway to protect its river ecosystems and ensure this bizarre and beloved animal continues to thrive.

In every way, the platypus challenges what we think we know about mammals it's weird, wonderful, and wonderfully weird. 💯💭😬

[Credit: Animal World]

08/24/2025

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08/17/2025

⚡️🍁 FALL 'FUEL-UP' MIGRATION 🍁⚡️NEWS FLASH! (8.16)
HUMMERS INCREASING IN: NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, OHIO, WISCONSIN, ALABAMA, ARIZONA & SoCAL.

Hummingbirds need to double their body weight for the Epic Migration South. Thanks for keeping your Feeders Full!

🍁HELP TRACK HUMMERS!
Let us know when New Migrating Hummers arrive & when yours Depart. Add your Report to the Comments below.
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✨Sparkles✨

08/11/2025

Monarchs take about a month to develop from egg to adult, meaning people who see eggs or larvae now could be seeing what will become the super generation of monarchs!

Monarchs that emerge in late summer enter reproductive diapause (do not reproduce) and begin to migrate, navigating to overwintering grounds that they've never been to before, sometimes over 2,000 miles away. East of the Rocky Mountains, that's typically the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico, while western monarchs head to sites along the California coast.

Then, after waiting out the winter, they're the ones that start the migration next year. They can live for up to nine months, much longer than the period of several weeks that the typical summer monarch will live.