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Foggy Oak Fairy Tales is a cozy short stories podcast for kids!
We tell farm stories from real-life happenings our farm, as well as fantasy tales to spark both learning and imagination.
Put a story on at bedtime, during car rides, or any time, to transport your child somewhere new!
Parent info: Foggy Oak Fairy Tales is recommended for ages under 5 and 6-10. It's a Story led show that should be listened to in order. Made in the USA, it's about Fantasy and Bedtime for kids. Launched in 2023, it has 5 seasons.
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It's the start of summer here and this month I am bringing you a story that happened actually just a couple of weeks ago on the farm. Last month's episode focused on some of the odd nests and places we have found mamas and their babies on the farm, and coincid…
Every spring we seem to have a series of incredibly odd location choices for nests among our chickens and ducks. This month, I thought it would be fun to share some of the strange and silly places hens in our flock have decided to make their nests.
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. T…
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??
It’s spring here on Foggy Oak Farm, and in addition to baby animals and nicer weather that also means it's the time of year when things start growing again and mowing season begins. This month’s episode is about one of those parts of farm life that happens eve…
It's spring here on the farm and for those of you who've been listening for a while you know that in addition to the typical explosion of chicks at this time of year that also means it is fox season. This month’s episode is about our efforts to outsmart our re…
This month’s episode is all about fiber (no, not the kind you eat)! We talk about the process of creating yarn from shearing sheep and retell two fantastic Greek myths related to threads and fiber: a tale about the great craftsman Daedalus and the story of Ara…
Have you heard the expression "to bell the cat"? This month we tell the fable that gives us this expression for attempting an impossible task, and consider what lessons it might be able to teach us.
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…
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 raven…
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 on…
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 n…
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 t…
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?
Hi friends! This month’s episode is an adaptation of a fairy tale found in several cultures called “Why the Sea is Salt”.
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…
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.
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!
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!
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.
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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 …
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.
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!
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 …
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 abou…
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.
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.
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?!
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 t…
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.
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”.
Hi friends! We are happy to be back with Season 3 of Foggy Oak Fairy Tales!
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 increasi…
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…
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…
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.
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 t…
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 a…
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.
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 u…
This week, we’re back with siblings Rowan and Rosalie as they work to complete the second of three tests to become honorary mermaids!
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 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.
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 ab…
This week we have Part 2 of "Jack and the Beanstalk"!
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…
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…
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 b…
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 merma…
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…
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 c…
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 wi…
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 …
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…
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…
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 mist…
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.
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…
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.
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,…
This week, we have Part 2 of the would have been Cinderella who wasn’t – Fearless Susan – who set out into the world to learn about fear. She hasn’t felt scared yet, but she has helped a troll with a sword stuck in its foot and gained a new friend in the proce…
This week, we have a story about a would-have-been Cinderella who wasn’t. Fearless Susan will show us you can find your own story, and make your own adventures, any time you like.
A little duck has disappeared on Foggy Oak Farm! Where could she be...and why are there ducklings jumping from the hayloft in the barn?!
Two girls go for a walk in the woods...and meet an unusual creature who wants them to...answer riddles? For fun? Maybe you can help solve its puzzles?
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