S- so what, what kinds of plants and creatures are you harvesting and/or growing? Uh, like, what are your, some of your bestsellers?

Oh my gosh, um, we do sell a lot of seaweed. And ever since, uh, COVID came on, uh, you know, people were scared and holed up in their apartments and houses and freaking out, uh, were they going to survive? And so a lot of people, uh, came to us looking for things like Irish moss to make sea moss gels, and bladder wrack and kelp. So that's certainly one of our, our mainstays, our seaweeds for human consumption. But the business started really on scientific specimens. And, you know, it could be a teacher in Ohio that's got a, um, elementary class, and she would just like some, some real live starfish, um, to share with her students. So we put them in a box with some water, some oxygen, and FedEx or UPS overnight. Um, so a lot of marine organisms. They could be hermit crabs. They might be, uh, sea urchins. Uh, we go out and net up plankton, you know, the stuff that whales and filter feeders eat. And we sell that by the gallon. Um, one of our biggest and probably the hottest selling item right now are our fishing worms and our, our marine baits, specifically blood worms. Um, and we- we're shipping these DTC all around the country. Great big worms, as thick as a Sharpie, and 12 inches, 16 inches long, um, sometimes.

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The, um... We have so many categories of, of products, you know, bait and fertilizer and food and, and science and research and... Um, that it, it just makes for a really fun day, because each morning I, I get on my laptop and I look at my orders and I go, "Oh, geez, I got to go, you know, pick, um, five pounds of moss and they need to run over here and pull these traps to get 12 hermit crabs. And then I'm gonna run to this other, uh, dock and get some sea anemones." So it's really... You know, uh, in terms of what we've created with Gulf of Maine, it's, it's just like a... Every day is a holiday. It's always fun. It's always exciting. Um, and then we're able to populate our Instagram, um, with all kinds of amazing content every day. It's always fresh. It could be a dead seal washed up on the beach. It could be, you know, some bald eagles fighting over a dead eel, uh, on the rock weed. It's just so much variety. Um, and you know, we hunt, we fish.... uh, we forage, we eat mushrooms, we eat seaweeds. We... You know, it's really kind of a fun, uh, way to raise our kids and to, um, uh, just go about each and every day. And we're, we're making really good money. I mean, it's amazing how this stuff that's just lying around here in this bay. You know, this is our virtual warehouse, if you will, and every day, whether it's 20 below zero or it's 70 degrees out, I gotta be out here picking and collecting and, and sorta, um, sending these, these boxes out all across mostly North America but sometimes into Europe. Um-