Happy Tonics, Inc.
Who We Are
To promote organic gardening and open pollination for biodiversity. The organization is dedicated to teaching about the risks of invasive species and their impact on the environment, other species, indigenous and native crops, and health.
What We Do
Mission: Sanctuary for the Monarch Butterfly. We promote organic gardening, plant native host plants for butterflies, native grasses and wildflowers for biodiversity for pollinators. The nonprofit needs others to help plant pollinator corridors where they live. In 2014-2015 a national pollinator corridor needs to be planted for the monarch butterfly. Otherwise we will lose the monarch international migration. Help save the Monarch Butterfly.
The organization was spearheaded by Mary Ellen Ryall in 1999 in Lusby, MD, at that time Happy Tonics was an online herbal educational entity. In December 2000, as retirees Ryall and her husband moved to WI. Ryall commuted 70 miles a day to Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Community College where she studied ethnobotany, natural resources and graduated as an elder from the Woodland Wisdom Nutrition Project. In 2008, Ryall spearheaded a Monarch Butterfly Habitat on city land in Shell Lake, WI.
The organization became a nonprofit 501(c)(3) environmental education organization in 2008. The nonprofit maintains the habitat, has a medicinal and native crop garden at Lac Courte Oreilles Oreilles Reservation tribal farm, and maintains a close relationship with the tribal college, where Ryall was awarded an Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010.
In 2012, another corporate mission commenced for Ryall in Fitchburg, MA, where she taught environmental education at Gateway Park, Natural Pollinator Habitat in season in 2013-2014. In 2015, John Collins and Kathryn Swantee will be teaching pollinator classes. In Fitchburg to Celebrate 250 years, Happy Tonics started the Great Sunflower Project in 2013. This project is still ongoing in 2015.
In 2014, Happy Tonics once again migrated and this time to Saratoga Springs, New York. From Upstate New York Ryall operates the nonprofit in three states. Volunteers are our leaders in Environmental Education. They offer talks, and teach classes right out in nature.
Our volunteers are dedicated to helping pollinators and teaching about the importance of native bees, European honey bee, butterflies and other pollinators. Join us at Gateway Park, Natural Pollinator Habitat, in summer for classes.
