Second Nature Herb Farm & Horticultural Services

07/14/2026

Good video of the division process that can be done now, as soon as it cools down…

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

Round the sun again…it’s grow time!☺️💚🌱🌱🌱

05/06/2026

It’s beginning… we’ll have lots of vegetable starts ready in a few weeks!🥦🍆🍅🌶️🫑

04/25/2026

Five caterpillars most gardeners remove on sight. Every one becomes a butterfly or moth worth more alive than the leaf it's eating.

The same organism appears in two books — beauty and pest — and most gardeners never make the connection.

- Tomato hornworm — becomes the five-lined sphinx moth, a hummingbird-sized pollinator that works the night shift. If it's covered in tiny white cocoons, leave it — those are parasitic wasps that handle next year's population for you
- Parsley worm — the green-black-yellow caterpillar on your dill and fennel is a black swallowtail. One parsley plant yields five to eight adult butterflies. The parsley costs two dollars
- Eastern tent caterpillar — the silk web tents in cherry and apple trees feed over 60 species of songbirds during the exact window when they're raising nestlings
- Gulf fritillary — bright orange with spines that look dangerous but are soft and harmless. Strips passionflower vine to bare stems. The vine regrows in a week
- Woolly bear — the fuzzy one crossing roads in October. Eats weeds. Threatens nothing you planted. Survives winter by freezing solid

The garden that protects the larva gets the butterfly. The one that removes it gets neither.

04/25/2026

Thank you, New York!❤️

You don't see it. That's the point.
Most corn, soy, and wheat seeds get coated in a neonicotinoid insecticide before they ever hit the ground. It's invisible. It's routine. And it's been wiping out pollinators, birds, and soil life for years.
New York just became the first state to ban neonic-treated seeds for corn, soy, and wheat. The Birds and Bees Protection Act phases out what scientists call the most ecologically destructive pesticide since DDT.
Here's why this matters. A seed treatment doesn't stay in the seed. It washes into the soil. It bleeds into field margins. It shows up in the pollen and nectar that bees collect. A single treated corn kernel can carry enough active ingredient to kill a songbird.
Native bumble bees have been crashing partly because every field around them is toxic. New York drew the line. Farmers will have to find other ways to manage pests. And the bees, birds, and butterflies in New York fields just got something they haven't had in years — clean ground.
The rest of the country is watching. Because if the nation's third-largest agricultural state can do this, the question isn't whether other states will follow.