Foggy Oak Fairy Tales

Threads: A Greek Mythology Special! 🐑🧵🐚🐜🕷️🕸️

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 Arachne - aka the origin of spiders!  Let me know if you can figure out what all the emojis in the episode title 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/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's Ruth the kitten and her adventures!— — — — — — —Written, performed, and produced for you by Claire Krendl Gilbert. Thanks to my daughters for their assistance playing and singing the intro and outro!©2025 Claire Krendl Gilbert. All rights reserved.

To Bell the Cat (or The Mice in Council) 🐁🔔😾

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. We cover (at a kid friendly level) the collective action problem and the tragedy of the commons as some of the lessons from this tale. 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's Ruth the kitten and her adventures!— — — — — — —Written, performed, and produced for you by Claire Krendl Gilbert. Thanks to my daughters for their assistance playing and singing the intro and outro!©2025 Claire Krendl Gilbert. All rights reserved.

Winter 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 reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ruth on the Roof", a picture book about Foggy Oak Farm's Ruth the kitten and her adventures!— — — — — — —Written, performed, and produced for you by Claire Krendl Gilbert. Thanks to my daughters for their assistance playing and singing the intro and outro!©2025 Claire Krendl Gilbert. All rights reserved.

The 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 the fairy tale law that where there is a curse...there must also be a way to break 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 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's Ruth the kitten and her adventures!— — — — — — —Written, performed, and produced for you by Claire Krendl Gilbert. Thanks to my daughters for their assistance playing and singing the intro and outro!©2025 Claire Krendl Gilbert. All rights reserved.

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 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 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's Ruth the kitten and her adventures!— — — — — — —Written, performed, and produced for you by Claire Krendl Gilbert. Thanks to my daughters for their assistance playing and singing the intro and outro!©2025 Claire Krendl Gilbert. All rights reserved.