Aug 24
2010

We now have our Fall schedule!  We’re returning to monthly dinners, with live music and the opportunity to buy the ingredients at our farm stand afterwards. You can make your reservations any time, but seating is first come first serve, so don’t wait too long!

Come to the Inner Circle. Special seating for 8 on pink pillows. Sans bucket.

To reserve, contact us at: reservations@fairy-talefarm.com Let us know the date you’re coming, and how many people you are.  There are 50 seats available per dinner.  Pie party is unlimited! If you have free fruit, contact me and I will trade for dinner or pie.

Sunday September 26th Fall feast!  5 PM Harvest party and Hoe Down.  Menu to follow shortly.  String band, dinner followed by square dancing!  $40 Bring your own wine or beer to share.  We need musicians and a caller for this event. And dance instructors.  Contact us at: musicians@fairy-talefarm.com if you’d like to play for your supper.

Azalyne's breads and pies are sublime!

and while you are salivating looking at these beautiful raw chocolate strawberry cheesecakes and gluten free loaves, you must come to:

Sunday October 17th Gluten free extravaganza!  5 PM Azalyne Sky-Olson of “The Culture of Change” food share will be preparing a cultured, organic, Italian feast!  If you haven’t been able to eat bread or pasta, have celiac or food challenges, or are just wheat intolerant, this is the dinner for you.  $75  (this price reflects the high cost of ingredients, and the labor intensity of sprouting and culturing that Azalyne does to make her goods maximally digestible.)  Menu to follow. Please bring wine to share.

Sunday November 7th  Pie Party!  Who’s down for pie?  Blackberry, peach, pecan, blueberry, apple, shoefly, if it’s a pie, we’ve got it!  Live music, and lots of coffee, tea and pie!  $10 all you can eat.  Whole pies for sale for $10, place your orders ahead of time.  If you’re vegan or gluten free, contact me and I can make you a special pie.  10 AM – 3 PM

Pies, pies, and more pies.

Sunday December 5th  Tappas and music!  Join us for South American music, and a Spanish feast!  $40 Bring wine to share.  This event will be inside.  But come tour the garden in the dark.  6 PM

One free slot for a dishwasher every dinner.  But you will work for your supper.  We need music for the pie party!  Free pie for musicians.

The dinners are for adults or well behaved children.  The pie party is for all ages.  Let us know if you have any food restrictions, or if we can get something special for you.  And lastly, tell your friends and come support our little piece of magic!

From dirt to fricassee!



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Aug 24
2010

summertime salon at Fairy-Tale Farm

Bucket Head 2

Last Thursday, Fairy-Tale Farm had a sheep and a goat! The goat needed to be milked, so children were invited to join in, and pet the sheep.

Of course, there are always chickens to cuddle… Madeline is the chicken whisperer. Seriously.

And crafts to behold! a new pink friend!

You must not miss the last Farm Market. sunflowers and strawberries and lettuce

Last week, we had a Bluegrass Band! Page Brownton and Sidetrack !
Paul Clark, Page Brownton and Jessica Evans

And as always, figure drawing…bring your own supplies.

So come on down and eat delicious food in a delectable setting…and buy your produce and goodies for the week. 5-9 PM Drop in any time.

Figure Drawing is from 6 – 7 PM. Contact us for our address. We hope to see you here.



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Jul 2
2010

"jams and produce" by kthread, used under CC BY 2.0 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kthread/4754107102/

"jams and produce" by kthread (CC BY 2.0)

We tried another new idea, a distilled idea.  We’ve done underground restaurants, pie parties, figure drawing, one-day cafes, and workshops.  We’ve long dreamed of house concerts.  We want to be a venue where people bring their goods, extra produce, music, art, and especially sense of community.

So was born the Summer Salons and Urban Farm Market. Click to read more …

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Jun 17
2010

This Summer, beginning July 1st, we have our Summertime Salon!  Every Thursday evening, from 5-9 PM, we have a wonderful dinner from the garden, FREE figure drawing with a live model, Music jams, Collage, and Games!   You can figure draw for an hour, then join in with the musicians and sing a few songs.  Then sit down at a table and play Magic with the masters.  It goes like this:

  • Music over here  (bring your instrument, and just play with whoever shows up)
  • Art/figure drawing over there (to make this free, I need free models! Sign up now for summer.  You don’t have to be nude, come in costume if you’d like.  I have a few easels, but bring your own art supplies and extra easel if you have one.)
  • Collage on that table (bring your own supplies, especially magazines to cut!)
  • Games on this table (bring a game you want to play)
  • Kids craft table (anything from feather hair clips to nosegays.  Craft from the garden.)
  • Or just chase the chickens

We have coffee, tea, a delicious vegetarian dish from the garden, and pie for sale.   Menu is dependent on what’s fresh from the garden.  Pie is seasonal fruit.  Sometimes we have biscuits and fresh jam.

Urban Farm Market: Now every Thursday of the month bring your excess produce, flowers, honey, homemade cheese, art, jewelry, sweet treats, etc. to our Urban Farm Market tables to sell or trade with the other vendors.  Our intention is to grow a farmer’s market for the DIY community who don’t make enough to sell at the Farmer’s Market.  This could also be a great time to barter.  Just bring your goods and a fair price for them, and we can begin the underground market! If this is popular, we could do it every week, and into the Fall. It’s proving popular, so we’re extending the Urban Farm Market to every week.

You don’t have to RSVP to come play.  Please let us know if you’d like to sell at the market, though, or if you’re interested in becoming a figure model.  Tell all your friends, and come hang out into the night with us and dust off your talents!  May your community, artistic, and creative dreams come true.

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Jun 16
2010

Recently we had the great pleasure of supplying flowers for India Joze’ flower festival. Pictures of these flowers are below.

Held 16 May at Joze’ new restaurant location, the scene I saw at the Flower Festival was the evolved artistic food expression I’ve come to know from Master Chef Jozseph Schultz.  You can look at their pictures (Facebook pictures and event page) via the India Joze Facebook page.  What I captured here are shots of our flower delivery.  (These pictures are available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported.)

Flower Harvest

Nasturtiums, rose petals, borage, lemon petals, and edible pea flowers.

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Apr 29
2010

What would you like?

Bring your Mother to our next One Day Cafe!  Sunday, May 9th  10 AM – 4 PM.  Drop in anytime for fresh baked bread, Ladysmith Jams and Jellies, and chocolate ganache!  And, of course, pie.  Tea, coffee, and free wireless internet!

The garden is full of flowers.  Bring your mom to a delightful day in our beautiful garden.  Sip tea and eat fresh bread under the roses, with chickens clucking around you begging for scraps!

Drop in anytime.  $10 for coffee, bread, jam, ganache, and pie!  Children $5

Please RSVP at:  reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

If you are a musician, you can play for your slice of pie!  Contact me if you or someone you know would like to entertain us for tea and bread and jam.

For more info on Anna Cameron’s jams, email her at: ladysmithjams@yahoo.com

For ganache info, contact www.lifestyleculinary.com

Looking forward to eating with you!



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Mar 26
2010

Drop by Fairy-Tale Farm anytime between 10am – 4pm for our brand new, One Day Cafe!  We will have homemade warm bread and butter, and local Ladysmith Jams and Jellies, fresh biscuits, salads, and pie!  We will also be featuring gluten-free amazing products baked by Azalyne SkyOlson of the Culture of Change Food Share Collective.  Coffee and tea as always, and free wireless internet access.

Anna Cameron makes the Ladysmith Jams and Jellies and she’s got some unusual flavors like cactus-blueberry, and most of her jams are low sugar, made with honey, or sweetener free.  She will have jars of jams for sale, so you can stock up.

Azalyne SkyeOlson of the Culture of Change Food Share Collective will be offering her Cultured Gluten Free Sourdough Savory & Sweet Breads. Cultured GF scones; Cherry Vanilla Rose & Cranberry Ginger Orange. Pre-made Cultured GF Pizza Dough Balls and Wild Nettle Pesto. Various Raw lacto-fermented Krauts & Kimchi’s will be available for tasting and purchase. Raw Flower Essense Infused Pies (Agave FREE!), reminiscent of cheesecake in texture: Pineapple Raspberry Dream, Passionfruit Ollalieberry Bliss, Blueberry Lavender, Mango Raspberry White Chocolate. All items are gluten free and therefore wheat free, low sugar, infused with love and prepared in a kitchen that has been free of gluten for a decade!

Prices vary; coffee and tea $1 a cup, bread and pastries range from $2 – $10.  The gluten-free goodies are more.  We will have live musicians, and just a general hanging out and eating warm yummy things time.

Please RSVP:  reservations@fairy-talefarm.com  just to let me know how many loaves of bread to bake.   Contact Anna Cameron at:  ladysmithjams@yahoo. com for more information about her jams.

Hope to see you here!

We like to keep our musicians well fed.



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Feb 1
2010

Who wants to come to a pie party?  This Sunday, February 7th, 10 AM to 2 PM.

Drop in for coffee, tea, and pie.  $1 a slice, 50 cents a cup of coffee.

Come play music if you’re a musician and hang out!  Free slice of pie if you’re willing to stay and wash dishes!  If you have extra frozen fruit to spare, please contact us.

Drop in anytime and talk pie, chickens, gopher hunting, and figure drawing.

Let us know by Friday if you’d like to come so we know how many pies to bake:

reservations@fairy-talefarm.com



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Jan 6
2010

Mark your calendars. Fairy-Tale Farm has 6 months of festivities scheduled:

RESTAURANT/CAFE:
Sunday, February 7th Pie Party!! 10 AM – 2 PM Drop in anytime for a few slices of pie and unlimited coffee and tea. Frolic in the garden, listen to the music, and enjoy organic pies with your family and friends. $10

Friday, March 12 Dinner in the Field 6 PM – 9 PM This is our next formal underground restaurant, chef and menu to be announced. Limit 30 guests. $30 Cheap wine included. Please bring a nice bottle of wine to share if you’d like. Live music.

Sunday, April 11 One Day Cafe 10 AM – 4 PM Come drop by and dine on homemade pastries. Unlimited coffee and tea, and live music. Free wireless internet access. Prices vary.

Sunday, May 9 One Day Cafe 10 AM-4PM Same as above.

Saturday, June 12 Dinner in the Field! 6 PM – 10 PM Chef and menu to be announced. $30 per guest

NEW: FIGURE DRAWING IN THE GARDEN

We are starting monthly figure drawing classes, with a live nude model. Free coffee and tea! Come hang out and eat cookies ($2 each) even if you’re not drawing. $10 if you are drawing/painting. No instruction, just come and inspire one another. We will begin with quick poses, and end with longer 30 minute sessions. You are free to paint the chickens instead. Last Sunday of each month:

Sunday, Jan 31 2-5 PM

Sunday, February 28 2-5 PM

Sunday, March 28 2-5 PM

Sunday, April 25, 2-5 PM

Sunday, May 30 2-5 PM

Sunday, June 27 2-5 PM

As always, there are two free slots reserved for each event as musician and dishwasher. If you are interested in modeling for us for the figure drawing classes, you will be payed $15 an hour, or you can trade for future classes/events. We will have flowers and produce for sale when available, so bring extra cash.

If you are a chef and interested in cooking for one of our dinners, contact us. We also host private parties.

Reservations for any of these events can be made by emailing us at:

reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

Please specify the date/event you are reserving for and the # of people coming. For the cafe/ figure drawing class, please let me know if you intend to come so I can get an idea of how much to cook, but you are welcome to bring friends and decide last minute. We will always have coffee and tea!

Contact us if you have ideas or inspirations for future events. Happy New Year!



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Dec 2
2009

One of our Araucana chickens, Sparrow, likes her privacy when she’s laying her eggs.  She’s also the strongest flyer, and flies the coop each day to lay her egg out in the greater homestead.  She keeps her secret spots to an area that is not much more than 5000 square feet (464.5 square meters), but the combination of her low height, clever camouflage, and willingness to find somewhere new keeps us active.  Whenever we find her latest clutch and start collecting the eggs, she soon gives up on that location and starts over with a new one.  Because Araucanas lay blue-green-grey eggs, the experience reminds me of an Easter egg hunt.

This video shows the latest location Sparrow has been laying, the most difficult one she has devised.  I’m afraid there are other locations she can reach that are more unpleasant to crawl to than this one was.  One lesson learned – do the crawl with thick gloves on.

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