This episode of Foggy Oak Scary Tales is not scary in a spooky sense, but is definitely scary if you are a pumpkin farmer! It is the true story of a rainstorm that hit at exactly the wrong time and washed all the pumpkins away from the neighboring farm..and onto everything downstream…including our farm. Join me to learn about that – hopefully – once in a lifetime flood. Thanks as always to sister-in-law extraordinaire Lee Knight for the fabulous intro and outro theme music during spooky...

Hi friends! For the month of October, Foggy Oak Fairy Tales transforms into Foggy Oak SCAAAAAAAAARY Tales, where I bring you kid-friendly scary or Halloween-related stories to celebrate the spoooookiest month of the year. If you’re not a fan of scary stories no worries! – we’ll be back with our normal Foggy Oak Fairy Tales in November, and you can join us then or listen to past episodes of the podcast instead. We’re beginning this year’s Foggy Oak Scary Tales with an adaptation of the G...

Hi friends, this month’s episode is an adaptation of the fairy tale “The Buried Moon”, gathered by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. In this story, the moon goes missing after saving a father and his daughter who are lost in a carr – or bogland. Can the villagers find and rescue her? If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & InstagramW...

Secret eggs, surprise chicks, and a mother hen who made her first chick raise her second chick...this month's episode is full of strange, true chicken stories from the farm. Don't we all adore the eternal weirdness of chickens? New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https:/...

Hi friends! This month’s episode is an adaptation of a fairy tale found in several cultures called “Why the Sea is Salt”. In this adaptation, a young woman trades for a magic quern (or hand mill) that can produce anything she requests. It’s a story where sharing and selflessness are rewarded and greed and selfishness reap what they have sown. Thank you so much for supporting this podcast – I hope you enjoy this twist on a classic tale! Send us a text New intro If you like our s...

Hi friends, this month’s episode is about a recent pig and goat escapade on Foggy Oak Farm where one of our pigs broke through a fence...and all the pigs and goats got out! And BOY were they ornery during their bid for free reign of the farmyard. Join us for a tale of hilarity and woe (at least if you're me, fixing a broken fence in 95 degree weather while trying to catch what felt like an army of loose farm animals). Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on y...

This episode is about pigs. Specifically, it is about three recent additions to Foggy Oak Farm – Pua, Petunia, and Peaches, who are Kunekune pigs and part of the many spring animal expansions we have done this season. Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: ht...

This month, I’m sharing stories from spring lambing at my childhood home, Mossy Dell Farm. Lambs are silly, playful, and adventurous, and it was always my favorite time of year! Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-f...

This week’s story is an adaptation of an Aesop’s fable called “The North Wind and the Sun”, where the North Wind challenges the Sun to a contest: the first to get a traveler to remove his cloak wins! A classic lesson in the power of persuasion over force, this tale from 2,000 years ago still holds up! Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Me...

Many fairy tales offer us the lesson “be careful what you wish for”. They teach us that sometimes getting what we want isn’t at all what we expected…and warn us about the dangers of making bargains we can’t control. “The Magic Flounder” story from several months ago is a good example of this – each time the fisherman wishes for more grand things he and his wife become less and less happy. This week’s story from Greek Mythology takes “be careful what you wish for” to a whole new le...

Hi friends! Last season we had a story about a fellow named Hans who was born on a leap year and believed he was the luckiest man alive…and interpreted every even that happened through that lens. This month’s episode features an old woman with a similar outlook on life, as well as a mischievous shapeshifter who really tries to test her sunny outlook. Like our recent story “Fairies in the Chimney”, this is an adaptation of a story collected and written by Joseph Jacobs in More English ...

This month’s episode is about my parents’ black lab Henry, who we discovered takes an unusual and vast delight in stealing and returning sleds. Not just any sleds, however, only those that he believes are not sleds at all...but actually giant frisbees that it is his very serious responsibility to catch and return to us...even if we’re the ones sitting on them! Let’s find out how we discovered his amusing habit, and enjoy a wintery trip to the past. Merry Christmas and Happy New ...

Hi friends! This month's episode is a funny adaptation of one of the oldest known fairy tales. A blacksmith makes a bargain with death, and then works to outwit him time and time again. Iterations of this story trace back 5 – 6,000 years and have been found in 35 different languages all across the world! If there was ever a classic fairy tale...this would be it. Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with...

Hi friends! This special Foggy Oak Scary Tale is about our cat, Idgie, who surprised us by coming trick or treating! It’s the final installment in this October’s Foggy Oak Scaaaary Tales! Thanks to sister-in-law extraordinaire Lee Knight for the fabulously spooky intro and outro music for these special episodes! Send us a text If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ So...

Hi friends! Foggy Oak Fairy Tales is back, and spooky season is upon us! That means it’s time for us to dim the lights, light a few candles, and settle in for a FOGGY OAK SCAAAAAARY Tale – a kid friendly scary story vetted by my daughters to make sure I never make it “too scary”. This one is based on a real life farm event from this very month, where a series of late night awakenings led to quite a surprise! Thanks to sister-in-law extraordinaire Lee Knight for the fabulously spooky in...

It seems this spring is one for stories of celestial events because just last weekend we were treated to the exceptionally rare experience of being able to see the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, here in southwest Virginia! Join me this week to learn about the Northern Lights and the unusual experience of seeing them in the southern sky. Big thanks to space.com for their outstanding articles and research on all of the topics covered in this episode! Send us a text New intro ...

Hi friends! This week’s story is about three hens with big personalities who recently rejoined us at Foggy Oak Farm...and the hijinks they have already gotten into. Flock additions are always interesting, but perhaps never quite so much as for these hens who had never seen a rooster, let alone an entire farm full of animals! Join me to find out how they are acclimating to their new life on the farm! Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on ...

Hi friends! This week’s episode is about my recent trip to Ohio to experience the totality of the 2024 solar eclipse – a fantastical celestial event that I hope everyone will have the chance to experience at least once in their lifetimes. Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com ...

Hi Friends! This week I’m continuing our goat theme with a farm story about our goat Sunshine…and her recent determination to make my daughter into a goat rider?! Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fairy-tales Feel l...

Hi Friends! This week’s story is an adaptation of one of my favorite fairy tales – The Three Billy Goats Gruff! Three goats are desperate to cross a bridge to get to a lush green pasture, but a fearsome terrible troll lives there and gobbles up anything that tries to cross! The goats have to figure out how to outwit the troll and get to the pasture.... Send us a text New intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the mo...