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.

Which way to Fairyland?

Home Place Fairies are always on the lookout for new and illuminating discoveries.

They search way down low, sprinkling nourishing fairy dust, encouraging the smallest of flowers to blossom and grow.

Fairies flutter up high into the tallest of trees where wondrous beings hover and fly.

“Don’t you know everyone has a Fairyland.”

      P.J. Travers

Sometimes if a community is lucky they might have an individual or two who stands out for their selfless acts of giving. Here in mid coast Maine generations of children have been fortunate enough to have been acquainted with an entire family of such individuals whose hearts overflow with generosity and love. A big shout out to Miss. Bette, Miss. Angie, Miss. Jo, Mr. Jerry and Miss. Suzanne!

The Wizard and I have hosted many annual end of the school year Grand Fairy Tea Parties for one of the most dynamic preschools we know of. Lovely Annie, a fairy fine wandering minstrel delights us with her music, she is beautiful to behold.

Adults and children dance and prance as we parade through gardens with shy little fairies glimmering beside us.

With the assistance of parents and friends wishes are collected from all of the children and deposited within a tiny wicker basket. This basket is dusted with magical fairy dust, carefully attached to environmentally safe balloons and carried by the currents of the wind to Fairyland. What fun on a brilliant day!

Here’s a little movie/ slideshow of our wonderful morning of celebration. Click on the link below…enjoy.

Grand Fairy Tea Party

I wonder what kinds of wishes the fairies received?

Here Ye, Here Ye,

Come together in Celebration,

both young and old.

Today is the day, it’s that time of the year…

The Grand Fairy Tea Party!

A culmination of Summer from Spring,

when Fairy Folk and humans gather together

for joyous song and dancing,

appreciation and respect.

The Fairies announce this gathering

and welcome you here.