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Foggy Oak Fairy TalesWinter on the Farm ☃️Hi friends! It’s been a cold and snowy December here at Foggy Oak Farm, and for this month's episode I thought you might enjoy learning about some farm mechanics we haven’t talked about before – dealing with winter. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and see you in 2026! 🎉 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 like r...
2025-12-2416 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Seven Ravens 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛👧For this month’s episode, we have an adaptation of a classic, but less well known, fairy tale called “The Seven Ravens”. A version can be found in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, but there are many variants from across the world. Seven brothers are transformed into ravens when their father curses them for laziness, and their youngest sister sets off on a quest to find and rescue them. It offers a moral to “be careful what you wish for” (a moral we often explore on the podcast), but it also speaks to the love and devotion of siblings, and...
2025-11-1924 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Great Pumpkin Flood 🌊🎃🎃🎃(Foggy Oak Scary Tales)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 season!If you like our show, please subscribe on yo...
2025-10-1511 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesDeath's Godson 🕯️💀🕯️(Foggy Oak Scary Tales)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 Grimm’s Fairy Tale “Godfather Death”, published in 1812 in the first edition...
2025-10-0125 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Vanished Moon 🌜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 & InstagramWebsite: foggyoakfairytales.comMerchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fai...
2025-09-1017 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Chick Mother and Other Adventures🐤🐤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? 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ruth...
2025-08-1310 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesWhy the Sea is Salt 🌊🧂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! If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and...
2025-07-1621 min
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal PodcastMemories of "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast!" w/ Dara Gottfried, Gino Salomone and Alan ZweibelIn the premiere episode of Fun for All Ages with Frank Santopadre, Frank kicks off this new adventure with a heartfelt and hilarious tribute to "Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast!" Joining Frank for an hour of stories, memories and laughs are GGACP producing partner Dara Gottfried, entertainment reporter Gino Salomone, and comedy legend Alan Zweibel. Also in this episode: Bob Costas almost tanks his career, Gino runs afoul of Robert Wagner, Dara shares a priceless voicemail from Bill Macy, and everyone recalls their favorite Gilbert moments. PLUS: Dick Cavett saves the day! Gino remembers Ruth Buzzi! Alan reports fr...
2025-07-151h 25Foggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Great Escape: Pigs and Goats on the Loose! 🐖🐐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). If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and...
2025-06-2714 min
Silent Hill RadioRuthSilent Hill🌕LatenightThe Piper Ep. 1"Ruth" A series selected for Latenight by Robert Scott
2025-06-0828 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesThree Little Pigs Join Foggy Oak Farm 🐷🐖🐽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. 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ruth on the Roo...
2025-05-2815 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesSpring Lambs! 🐑🐑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! 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ruth on the Roof", a picture book about Foggy O...
2025-04-1614 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe North Wind vs. The Sun 🌬️☀️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! 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: foggyoakfair...
2025-03-1206 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesBe Careful What You Wish For! (King Midas and the Golden Touch)🫵👑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 level with the tale of King Midas and t...
2025-02-1217 min
A Tip From GilbertRebroadcast A Tip From Gilbert Ep. 135 Special Guest Dr. Ruth Cummings Author & Community ActivistRebroadcast A Tip From Gilbert Ep. 135 Special Guest Dr. Ruth Cummings Author & Community Activist
2025-02-0549 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Hedley Kow 👵🏻🪙🪨🐉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 Fairy Tales from 1894, and I appreciate the light...
2025-01-2211 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesHenry the Sled Stealing Dog 🐕🛷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 Year! If you like our show...
2024-12-2512 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Blacksmith who Outwitted Death⚒️ 💀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. 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...
2024-11-2719 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Trick or Treating Cat 😺🎃🍬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!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...
2024-10-2314 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Clangs, Bangs, and SHRIEKS! 😱 👻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 intro and outro music for...
2024-10-1610 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesSouthern Northern Lights 🌠 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! If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and sh...
2024-05-2214 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThree New Hens 🐔🐔🐔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! If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with o...
2024-05-0818 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesTotal Eclipse on a Farm 🌕🌓🌑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. 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's...
2024-04-2409 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesGoat Rides at Foggy Oak Farm 🐐🐎🌳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?! 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ruth on the Roof", a picture book about Foggy Oak Farm...
2024-04-1010 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Three Billy Goats Gruff 🐐🐐🐐🧌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.... 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...
2024-03-2709 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFairies in the Chimney!🧚🏽🔥Hi friends! This week’s story is an adaptation of the English Fairy Tale “My Own Self”, collected and edited in the volume “More English Fairy Tales” by Joseph Jacobs in 1922. In this story, a young boy finds out that his wish of meeting a fairy might come true…but might not be wise to repeat! 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: http...
2024-03-1308 min
Anchor Church Gilbert SermonsAnchor Conversations - Ruth 4Are you ready to take a deeper dive into the stories of Mr. So-and-So, Rachel and Leah, and Perez and Tamar? Join us as we continue the conversation from this Sunday's sermon. Jason and Tyler discuss the sermon, answer questions, and expound on Ruth 4 and its implications for us as followers of King Jesus.
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2024-03-0639 min
Anchor Church Gilbert Sermons"What's In A Name?" - Ruth 4Jason Hansen finishes our series in Ruth.
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2024-03-0341 min
Anchor Church Gilbert SermonsAnchor Conversations - Ruth 3Is it possible to use hesed selfishly? How does hesed connect the Old and New Testaments? Join us as we continue the conversation from this Sunday's sermon. Jason and Tyler discuss the sermon, answer questions, and expound on Ruth 3 and its implications for us as followers of King Jesus.
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2024-02-2839 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesBear the Bully and the Bundle of Sticks 🐻🪵This week’s story is based on an Aesop’s Fable called “The Bundle of Sticks”, which teaches us the age old lesson that “unity is strength”. The forest animals are tired of being bossed around by the bullying Bear, who threatens to GOBBLE THEM UP if anyone tries to disagree with him. Can they find a way to work together and get bear to correct his bad behavior? Let’s find out! If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most import...
2024-02-2814 minAnchor Church Gilbert Sermons"Normalizing Hesed" - Ruth 3Tyler Jenner continues our series in Ruth.
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2024-02-2550 min
Anchor Church Gilbert SermonsAnchor Conversations - Ruth 2Could Naomi still have been confident in God's kindness is Boaz hadn't stepped in to protect and provide? How can we remember and rest in God's hesed? Join us as we continue the conversation from this Sunday's sermon. Jason and Tyler discuss the sermon, answer questions, and expound on Ruth 2 and its implications for us as followers of King Jesus.
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2024-02-2140 minAnchor Church Gilbert Sermons"When Kindness is Remembered" - Ruth 2Jason Hansen continues our series in Ruth.
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2024-02-1842 min
Anchor Church Gilbert SermonsAnchor Conversations - Ruth 1:6-22What are some ways that we can zoom out from the pixels to see a fuller picture of God's plan? Join us as we continue the conversation from this Sunday's sermon. Jason and Tyler discuss the sermon, answer questions, and expound on Ruth 1:6-22 and its implications for us as followers of King Jesus.
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2024-02-1440 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesShannon and the Sticky Sheep 🪄🐑Hi friends! We are happy to be back with Season 3 of Foggy Oak Fairy Tales! This week we have a story about magic, sheep, and laughter. Shannon is a wonderful shepherd with the happiest, healthiest flock in all of Ireland. But she’s worried that someone might try to steal her lamb, whose wool feels like the softest fleece and shines like moonlight. So when the goddess Brigid and her ram Cirb offer to grant Shannon a wish...she knows just what to ask for. Her wish leads to a VERY sticky situation, a cure for...
2024-02-1420 minAnchor Church Gilbert Sermons"Seeing the Whole Picture" - Ruth 1:6-22Jason Hansen continues our series in Ruth.
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2024-02-1143 min
Anchor Church Gilbert SermonsAnchor Conversations - Ruth 1:1-5How should we think about God's heart in our desperate situations? Join us as we continue the conversation from this Sunday's sermon. Jason and Tyler discuss the sermon, answer questions, and expound on Ruth 1:1-5 and its implications for us as followers of King Jesus.
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2024-02-0736 minAnchor Church Gilbert Sermons"When Your Start Stalls" - Ruth 1:1-5Tyler Jenner begins our series in Ruth.
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2024-02-0447 min
The Business Awards ShowEpisode 085: Fighting Sex-Trafficking with Ruth Robb Fighting sex trafficking with Ruth Robb is the latest episode of the Business Awards Show. Ruth founded a fantastic charity, Azalea, fifteen years ago, helping women who have been sex-trafficked. Her work led to a Gold Award at the 2023 Best Businesswomen Awards. Having worked in social care, Ruth became increasingly aware of the horrors of sex trafficking in her local area around Luton. Being easily accessible from Luton airport and Dunstable logistics hubs, Ruth realised her town was increasingly becoming an accessible location to use for bringing oppressed women into the UK. She...
2024-01-2424 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Puppies' First Snow 🐶❄️Hi friends, this episode is about our puppies experiencing their very first real snow! It happened last week, and at a year-and-a-half old it was their first chance to fall in love with an aspect of winter that everyone here at Foggy Oak Farm already adores. That is…if they can get over how scared they are of this mysterious white stuff falling from the sky! Let’s learn how Orion and Kristoff went from terrified to thrilled, with some help from their parents. If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast plat...
2023-12-2013 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesWolf and Raven (or How the Wolf Got Her Pack) 🐺🪶This week’s story is based on a recent scientific theory about how wolves became pack animals. Wolf likes to exist alone….until Raven gives her reason to believe that there is safety and success in numbers. What will she do?? 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's...
2023-12-0611 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Magic Flounder (aka The Fisherman and His Wife) 🎣🐟🌊This week’s story an adaptation of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale called “The Fisherman and His Wife”, originally published in 1812. A fisherman catches a magic fish who begs him for its life. The fisherman spares the fish, but later returns to make a series of increasingly self-centered and greedy demands as his dissatisfaction grows, no matter how many wishes the fish grants. 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 & In...
2023-11-2216 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesZoomy Fall Ducklings at Foggy Oak Farm 🐣🐤This week we have another story about Ducklings! Towards the beginning of October, I found a surprise in the chicken coop. If you’ve been following the podcast for a while, you’ll remember that we have had a LOT of surprises in the chicken coop this year. This time, it was ducklings. We’re talking about our eight surprise fall ducklings and their habits – including their penchant for catching the zoomies as a group. If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most...
2023-11-0816 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Mo the Mosasaur 🐊🐋Welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week involves a scary discovery that isn’t precisely what it seems. Our protagonists encounter a prehistoric mystery when they are almost crashed into by a gigantic reptile who turns out to be a MOSASAUR. Do you think he’ll be a friend...or a foe? 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...
2023-10-2513 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Point Prim Lighthouse Ghost 👻Hi friends, welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week we have a story about my family’s visit to the Point Prim Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island...and the ghost we met while touring the lighthouse. Join us for a cozy exploration of a very special lighthouse, and its very special ghost: Michael. 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...
2023-10-1818 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Tramp-o-MEAN 🤸🤸Welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week’s story is about two siblings, Harlan and Arley, who are desperate for a trampoline. Their parents agree to get them one, but the kids are impatient and wish that a trampoline would show up RIGHT NOW. And that is how they meet…the TRAMP-O-MEAN.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...
2023-10-1116 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Spookiest Halloween Ever! 👻🕸️🏚️Hi friends, for the month of October we’re doing "Foggy Oak Scary Tales" to celebrate Halloween! These kid-friendly spooky stories are sure to give you a shiver of delight. Our first Foggy Oak Scary Tale comes from my mother, Kathy Krendl, about the time she and her parents conspired to make a haunted house surprise for her older sister and her friends. It was…the Spookiest Halloween Ever! 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...
2023-10-0409 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Boy Who Cried...ROOSTER! 🐓Have you heard the Aesop’s fable about the boy who cried wolf? This week’s story is a retelling of that fable about the risks of raising false alarms – in this case, not knowing how you’ll actually react to something scary until it happens. 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 like reading more about the far...
2023-09-2010 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Wild Ducklings Who Smelled Like Pancakes 🐣🦆Have you heard the expression “follows you around like a duckling” before? This is a story about a time when we rescued and hatched seven wild mallard duck eggs and how we learned that, like domestic ducks, wild ducklings imprint on you when they are growing up, but unlike domestic ducks, they eventually yearn for and return to nature. 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 Merc...
2023-09-0616 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesHonorary Mermaids: The Twilight Zone 🧜♀️🧜♂️This week, we’re back with siblings Rowan and Rosalie as they work to complete the second of three tests to become honorary mermaids! Last time, they were in the sunlight zone of the ocean and helped to save a baby otter who was in danger. Their kindness earned them green gold speckles all over their mermaid tails and the completion of one test! This week, they are moving into the middle layer – the twilight zone – for their second test, when they encounter a ghost net – which is a fishing net that has been lost or abandon...
2023-08-2323 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesNames ✨ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beloved place, animal, or thing is in need of a name. Or, well, if it’s not universally acknowledged at least a the practice has a long and illustrious history in both fiction and reality. This week we are talking about names, specifically the names we give to places, creatures, and things we love. 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 p...
2023-08-0912 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesA Bucket of Chicks 🐣 🪣This week, we have a story about one of the latest odd nests we’ve found around the farm– a hen who hid her nest in a secret goat feeding bucket – and the adorable chicks that recently joined us as a result. 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire...
2023-08-0214 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesA Loveliness of Ladybugs 🐞🐞🐞This week we have a story about a wonderful childhood memory. A girl stumbles upon a loveliness of ladybugs – that is, a huge group of them – in the hollow of a tree and begins a love of the beautiful insects that has lasted throughout her life. Let’s learn about what makes a wonderful childhood memory, explore the loveliness of ladybugs, and delve into how many of the objects and creatures around us have their own unique symbolism that makes them even more special. If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform...
2023-07-2615 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesJack and the Beanstalk (Part 2) 🌱 🧌This week we have Part 2 of "Jack and the Beanstalk"! Last time, Jack planted a magical bean that grew overnight into a colossal beanstalk! He climbed up and discovered a giant’s castle, where he rescued a long-fingered lemur known as an aye-aye. The aye-aye rewarded Jack with a bag of infinite treasure and told him that there were two more castles further up the beanstalk...also with creatures who were being forced to guard treasures. They decided to try and save them, too. So far they have made their way into the second castle. But they’ve just...
2023-07-1920 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesJack and the Beanstalk (Part 1) 🌱Do you know the story of Jack and the beanstalk? This week’s adaptation of the classic British fairy tale involves Jack and his beanstalk, as well as a long-fingered lemur known as an aye-aye. Join us as Jack sets off on the first part of his adventure in Part 1, and join us for Part 2, which adds a basilisk and a newfoundland dog to the group! How these characters all fit together with three horrible giant brothers I leave you to find out by listening to their story… If you like our show, please subsc...
2023-07-1227 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesMeow! It's Ruth on the Roof 🐈⬛ (and our first crossover episode)!This week we have a crossover episode with Ishara’s Reading Podcast! Ishara is a second grader who has her own reading podcast! Each episode she selects a children’s book to read and conducts an interview with the author and illustrator. I was excited to join her to talk about my book, "Ruth on the Roof", which is about our kitten Ruth. Join us for a delightful discussion about the power of make believe, overcoming challenges, ice skating, a reading of "Ruth on the Roof", and more! If you like our show, please subscr...
2023-07-0522 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesSeason Two Teaser!Hi friends! I wanted to pop in and share a quick teaser for Season 2! We just wrapped up Season 1 with a story about two kids who are working to become honorary mermaids! We’re going to take a quick beginning of summer break on the podcast, and then we’ll be back with Season 2. Check out this teaser for some previews of what's coming!If you have story ideas or feedback please share your thoughts with me! You can reach me at foggyoakfairytales@gmail.com, or via the social media links on our website – foggyoakfairytales.com. Thanks for lis...
2023-06-0701 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesHonorary Mermaids: The Sunlight Zone 🧜♀️This week we have a story about mermaids! Rowan and Rosalie have always been drawn to the ocean, and one day their mother takes them to visit their mysterious Aunt Maj who lives in a cottage by the sea in Nova Scotia. It turns out Aunt Maj is an honorary mermaid! And…so are they – at least, if they can pass the tests of the sea talkers (another word for mermaids) and earn their tails! Join us as they try to complete their first test in a kelp forest filled with sea urchins, otters, and even a great white shar...
2023-05-3127 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesSwoon! Fainting Goats at Foggy Oak Farm 🐐This week we have a story about bringing fainting goats to Foggy Oak Farm! A couple of springs ago we brought home three fainting goats – a mom and her two babies. We learned that while they DO faint when they are startled or excited, it doesn’t stop them from running things. Let’s learn about these interesting ungulates, and how they went from the new kids on the block to the bosses of all the sheep and goats on the farm. If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share...
2023-05-2419 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesLaurel and the Fairy Ring 🧚I imagine you’ve heard of fairies – magical creatures that live in the woods, and meadows, and and that’s what this story is about! Laurel is forbidden to go into the forest by her cottage after a woodcutter emerges claiming that fairies attacked him when he chopped down a tree. All the grown ups are worried that the fairies are going to come after the village, too. When they refuse to try and talk to the fairies and try to make peace, Laurel decides to do it herself, and sets off an adventure to find the fairy r...
2023-05-1719 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesCassandra the Sheep: Cursed! 🐑This week’s story is based on the Greek mythological prophet Cassandra. In this retelling, Cassandra is a sheep who was caught eating the flowers of a wizard. The wizard curses her in revenge! She will know bad things will happen in the future....but no one will believe her when she warns them! Unlike the Greek myth, this one has a happy ending. Cassandra learns from her curse and, when it is removed, she is able to anticipate bad things that could happen and help her friends avoid them, even without the curse. If you...
2023-05-1024 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesBrownie the Hound Dog: Always Running 🐕This week we have a story about Foggy Oak’s first dog, a brown and black hound dog mix named Brownie, who came to us after she was found running along the side of the road by relatives in Ohio. Brownie thought she should be everyone’s friend (or mother, if it was a baby animal) and could be counted on to sneak into your lap if you weren’t watching. Above all, Brownie was a runner. Let’s see if we can catch up with her in this week’s story...before she catches a donkey determined to stomp her...
2023-05-0316 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Tall Tale Teller 🥞This week, we have a story about a kid who loved tall tales so much that he wishes his life were more like them! Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed and every other hero from those stories are his idols. But he discovers that living in a larger than life world isn’t exactly what he imagined. Join us for an outsize adventure based on American tall tale folklore involving giant pancakes, rivers of syrup, rumbling tummies, and more! If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it...
2023-04-2614 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesEscape Artist: Sunshine the Farm Cat 🐈This week, we learn about an orange tabby cat named Sunshine who we adopted when I was growing up. This cat found us, but one thing was for certain: Sunshine could find a way out of anything she wanted. Join us for a story about Sunshine the escape artist, the kittens she had, and her many adventures. 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: http...
2023-04-1916 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Dinosaur Hole 🦕🦖This week, there’s a hole in the neighborhood field, and it keeps getting deeper! Four kids decide to find out what’s in the hole…and find a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs and magic! They ride a T-Rex, help the Loch Ness Monster, and narrowly avoid a mistake that could have trapped them there! Join us on a fun adventure through time and magic 🦕🦖 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...
2023-04-1222 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Disappearing Puppies 🐶Foggy Oak Farm raised eight puppies over the summer, but they keep disappearing! Learn about raising puppies and the mysteries that sometimes result in this fun, farm-focused episode. Previously our February bonus episode for Patreon members! 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 like reading more about the farm? Check out Clair...
2023-04-0510 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Unicorn Who Loved to Play Tag 🦄This week, we have a story about a farm mystery. Two siblings notice that the chickens keep flying up into a tree, and the sheep and goats are hiding in the woods! They set out to solve the mystery and learn that the culprit is a playful unicorn who just wants to play tag! Fortunately, everyone gets what they want in the end. 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: Face...
2023-03-2916 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe First Flock at Foggy Oak Farm 🐓This episode is about the first farm animals we had at the beginning of Foggy Oak Farm – Henrietta, a guineafowl who appeared mysteriously the day we took ownership of the farm; and Teddy, a rooster we quickly brought to the farm to give Henrietta a friend. We’ll learn about the chicken’s lesser known cousin the guinea, how Henrietta and Teddy led us to quickly add more guineas and chickens, why you want to avoid mean roosters, and learn that friendship in its many forms is very much a treasure...even as it grows and changes over ti...
2023-03-2221 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFearless Susan - Part 3: Susan Meets the Kraken 🦑This week, we have the conclusion to the current story of the would have been Cinderella who wasn’t – Fearless Susan, who so far has helped a troll with a sword stuck in its foot and rescued a dragon who was trapped under a boulder. She hasn’t felt scared yet, but she has picked up some new friends and special gifts – including the ability to talk to animals and monsters. She’s on her way with her horse Saoirse to the land of the sea queen to see if they can help deal with a kraken (a giant squid) who...
2023-03-1514 min