If you've been following along recently, you'll know it's been a very busy week here at Guinea Gourmet Treats!
Between making fresh batches, packing orders, creating new products and looking after customers, life has also taken a big turn behind the scenes...
Both Taylor and Ty are now home educated.
It's a huge change for all of us, but honestly... it's probably one of the best decisions we've ever made.
One thing I've realised very quickly is that learning doesn't just happen at a desk.
It happens whilst we're walking through woodlands identifying trees, comparing restaurant prices, discussing why dragonflies fly the way they do, or standing in a field wondering why one mushroom "smokes" when you touch it.
Curiosity has become our classroom.
Interestingly, that curiosity spills straight back into Guinea Gourmet Treats.
The kids have been helping choose product names, discussing ingredients, asking questions about plants and wildlife, and even helping pack products. Taylor even named one of our newest forage blends herself!
Those little moments remind me exactly why I started this business in the first place.
It was never about simply selling treats.
It was about understanding animal behaviour, enrichment, nutrition and creating products that genuinely improve lives.
🌸 New products have arrived!
This week I've been busy making fresh batches of several favourites, including:
🌼 Botanical Bloom Flower Forage
🍪 Botanical Cookies (which have nearly sold out already!)
🌿 Fresh forage blends and enrichment products
Seeing the response has honestly blown me away.
Some products have sold much quicker than I expected, which is always a lovely problem to have!
💚 Our community continues to amaze me
One of my favourite parts of Guinea Gourmet Treats has always been the rewards and rescue donation scheme.
This week alone I've been able to send out rewards to customers while watching rescue donation funds continue to grow.
Watching customers choose to support rescues through their own orders never gets old.
It's such a simple idea, but together it slowly builds into something that genuinely helps the rescues caring for guinea pigs every single day.
That community spirit is something I'm incredibly proud of.
📦 Small business reality
Not everything goes perfectly.
This week I also had a supplier delay which meant a couple of orders took longer than I'd hoped.
Whenever that happens, I always try to make it right.
Whether that's adding extra rewards, including little freebies, or simply keeping customers updated, I believe people deserve honesty more than excuses.
Small businesses aren't perfect...
…but they can be personal.
🌿 Looking ahead
There's something really exciting happening behind the scenes at the moment.
As the children continue their home education journey, they're becoming more involved in Guinea Gourmet Treats too.
Not because they have to...
...because they're genuinely interested.
They're asking questions about plants.
Helping me think of ideas.
Learning how a business works.
Watching products go from an idea... to something arriving through somebody's letterbox.
And honestly, that's a pretty amazing lesson in itself.
So over the coming weeks you'll probably see even more behind-the-scenes content, more nature, more learning and, of course, plenty of new forage.
Thank you, as always, for supporting not just a small business, but our little family's journey too.
Every order, every comment and every message genuinely means the world.
💚 Tara
I actually think this is a stronger direction for your blog than purely product updates. It turns GGT into an ongoing story that customers can follow. They get to know the people behind the business, see how nature, rescue, education and family all feed into what you create, and that makes the brand much harder to forget.
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