Winter Garden Raw Honey

09/05/2026

Phia's Bee Farm (father & daughter) In Australia - need a Translator

09/04/2026

🌺 The Great Hummingbird Migration Is Underway! 🐦

Every fall, these tiny travelers embark on an incredible journey, flying hundreds—and sometimes thousands—of miles from their summer breeding grounds toward warmer winter homes in Mexico and Central America.

Some Ruby-throated Hummingbirds even make the remarkable nonstop flight across the Gulf of Mexico.

And if your hummingbirds seem to have disappeared, don’t take your feeders down just yet! Late migrants may still be passing through and can use the extra fuel along their journey.

📍 Are you still seeing hummingbirds where you live? Tell us your state or province in the comments!

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

A pinecone keeps working long after it falls from the tree. Her scales exist to hold the seeds until conditions are right to let them go, and the best time to release a seed is in dry moving air, when it can travel farthest.

So the cone responds to humidity. In dry conditions the scales curl back and open. When the air grows damp, the woody scales absorb moisture, swell along one edge, and bend closed again.

There's nothing living involved. The cone is dead tissue. This is simple material physics, wood flexing as it takes on water.

🌿 That makes her a rough humidity gauge. An open cone means the air is dry. A tightly closed one means moisture is building, which often happens before rain arrives and before the sky shows much.

Set one on a windowsill and watch it over a week against the weather that follows 🌱

09/04/2026

🤓 HEARTLAND ACADEMY ..... 🤎 'Gopher Tortoise Burrows' are KEYSTONE STRUCTURES that support over 350 species, creating stable microhabitats and enhancing biodiversity in southeastern U.S. ecosystems. 🐢

🦖 The critically endangered Gopher Tortoise is a moderate-sized (up to 12"), terrestrial turtle that can live 40 to 60 years in the wild, though captive tortoises may live 90+ years. 🐢 And they do NOT swim❗️ 🤎 https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/reptiles/gopher-tortoise