PHS Plattekill Grange Restoration Project

PHS Plattekill Grange Restoration Project Plattekill Grange Restoration Project

Here at the Grange, we love learning something new every day! 🌾✨Nature is full of wild, mind-boggling facts! Look throug...
08/21/2026

Here at the Grange, we love learning something new every day! 🌾✨

Nature is full of wild, mind-boggling facts! Look through the image below to discover everything from pink hippo sweat to face-recognizing honeybees! 🐝

​👇 Which fact blew your mind the most? Let us know in the comments, and share this post to brighten up someone else's feed with a little extra curiosity today! ☀️

Ag Term of the Week: Crop RotationCrop rotation is the practice of planting different crops in the same field from year ...
08/18/2026

Ag Term of the Week: Crop Rotation

Crop rotation is the practice of planting different crops in the same field from year to year. Rotating crops helps improve soil health, reduce pests and diseases, and make the most of nutrients naturally found in the soil.

Healthy soil means healthier crops! 🌱

This month's Grange Heirloom:“Cultivation of the mind... destroys error and keeps our thoughts quickened and ready to re...
08/16/2026

This month's Grange Heirloom:

“Cultivation of the mind... destroys error and keeps our thoughts quickened and ready to receive and apply new facts as they appear, thus promoting the growth of knowledge and wisdom.” – President, Second Degree

This means that by continually engaging your brain, you replace false beliefs with truth and stay mentally sharp enough to easily process and use new information.

We would like to introduce one of our Board Members to the Community! Aislinn Smith is an expert in Care for the aging m...
08/13/2026

We would like to introduce one of our Board Members to the Community! Aislinn Smith is an expert in Care for the aging members of your family. Not everyone knows what to do at a certain point and having this type of support is crucial. Know you are not alone...

Aislinn is also a member of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce. Please share her information with anyone you feel may need some individualized support with aging services.

Tonight, somewhere between the tomatoes and the fence line, a sparkle will assemble itself.That's the actual term — a gr...
08/07/2026

Tonight, somewhere between the tomatoes and the fence line, a sparkle will assemble itself.

That's the actual term — a group of fireflies is called a sparkle, and it might be the most honest collective noun in the English language. They're not flies at all, but beetles, running the most efficient light show on Earth: nearly 100% of the energy in that glow becomes light, almost none of it heat. A lightbulb should be so lucky.

Every blinking pattern you see is a conversation — each species flashes its own code, males signaling from the air, females answering from the grass.

August is their grand finale, so the show outside your window is worth the price of standing still for five minutes.

Agriculture has its own language, and we're here to help translate it! 🌾 Swipe through to learn the meaning behind a few...
08/06/2026

Agriculture has its own language, and we're here to help translate it! 🌾
Swipe through to learn the meaning behind a few common ag acronyms you might hear.
The more you know, the more connected you'll be to the people and practices that keep our food system running. 🚜🌱

Which acronym was new to you? Let us know in the comments! 👇

On a hot night like tonight, the crickets are running fast — and they're doing math for you. A cricket's chirp is driven...
08/02/2026

On a hot night like tonight, the crickets are running fast — and they're doing math for you. A cricket's chirp is driven by muscle chemistry that speeds up and slows down with the air temperature, so precisely that in 1897 a physicist named Amos Dolbear published a formula for it, and "the cricket as a thermometer" has been in farmers' almanacs ever since. The backyard version couldn't be simpler: count one cricket's chirps for fourteen seconds, add forty, and you've got the temperature in Fahrenheit, usually within a degree or two. The snowy tree cricket — the soft, steady chirper in the hedges — is the most accurate of the lot; the field crickets run a little hot and loose. Step out before bed, pick out one steady voice, and check it against the porch thermometer. On a night this warm, you won't be counting slowly.

Going to try it tonight?

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