Happy Glorious New Year from the Home Place Fairies!

Happy New Year From the Fairies!

May it be Gentle and Kind.

Happy New Year from Old Horse and the Seamstress to the Fairies!

Happy New Year from the Home Place Fairies!

Very unusual weather this winter with much warmer temperatures than we normally experience. No snow anywhere when a few days ago everything was covered in white. Several days ago I met a night crawler wiggling slowly but with determination across the semi solid ground…from where did he come and where was he intending to go? He could not say so I scooped him up and carefully brought him down into the pit greenhouse where the ground never freezes and greenery all winter grows.

Today the granddaughters and cousins found a frog! Now that was a surprise, groggy but sitting upon solid ground in a clump of withered leaves.

Later when I hiked  down to the waterfalls I was not too surprised to see that the Home Place Fairies had left their cozy winter quarters to flutter and  dance in the warmth of a late December Day. This is highly unusual for them to do this time of the year. To my knowledge this has only happened a few times ever before.

The forest bordering my farm is enchanted and deep within in very secret places there are two sacred waterfalls where fairies fly.

For believers anything is possible.

Dream

Adventure out into nature.

The possibilities are endless.

Two little Fairies left the forest with their wands hoping to meet and wondered

As they wandered …

How simply wander-fully wonderful wandering with wands can be!

Magic happens in every garden.

If you are among those fortunate enough to find yourself deep within the heart of a wild garden during the days of August you may encounter Fairy Folk when they are most playful.

Take time to stop; smell flowers and listen to birds as they sing with their entire beings.

There is so much magic in the natural world.

Fairies ask that we take time out each and everyday to notice and contemplate the beauty that surrounds us.

“Be yourself.”

“Everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

Esmeralda Fairy enters my greenhouse each and every morning with her baskets of fairy dust flavoring our kale plants, so divine.

We are very appreciative of Esmeralda’s efforts and welcome the Home Place Fairies that help tend our gardens.

It is very important to express appreciation and gratitude to all of those who offer their services so selflessly.

The Wizard and I harvest Esmeralda’s Fairy sweetened Kale from our glass greenhouse from March until late November… when we let the greenhouse rest for the winter.

My family loves kale which I grow in straw mulched garden rows next to bush beans and kohlrabi, lettuce and chard.

I enjoy planting kale in different environments such as raised beds covered with remay.  Remay is a sheer gardeners fabric which lets in the warming rays of sunlight as well as rain drops pass through.  Remay protects Kale’s tender leaves from insects such as aphids, weevils or mites

Kale is delicious and used in many Fairy Folk recipes here at the farm.