Foggy Oak Fairy Tales

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 ❤️...

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 Merc...

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 yo...

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&ap...

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...

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 off...

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...

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...

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, pleas...

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...

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...

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 wi...

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...

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 Eve...

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...

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 podca...

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 –...

 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 fa...

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 &...

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...

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 c...

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 hor...

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 p...

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 tho...

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 t...