Foggy Oak Fairy Tales
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!
Episodes
57 episodes
The 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 neighbor...
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11:21
Death'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...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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25:38
The 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...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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17:29
The 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?
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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10:20
Why 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 reque...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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21:32
The 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 farmyar...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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14:07
Three 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.
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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15:44
Spring 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!
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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14:12
The 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 persu...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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6:55
Be 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 Floun...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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17:00
The 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...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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11:26
Henry 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 f...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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12:12
The 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...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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19:23
Foggy 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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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14:05
Foggy 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 ma...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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10:16
Southern 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 t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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14:21
Three 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 qu...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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18:09
Total 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.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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9:26
Goat 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?!
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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10:45
The 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...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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9:14
Fairies 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...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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8:59
Bear 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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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14:30
Shannon 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 Irel...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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20:35