Now Recruiting Fairy Day Planning Committee Members!
The Daniel Boone Native Gardens (DBNG) holds its annual family-friendly Fairy Day celebration every July on the second Saturday. For 2025, Fairy Day will be on July 12, from 1pm until 5pm. We are looking for any interested Fairy Day fans in our community to serve on our planning committee, which will have its first meeting in January, 2025. Areas of need include organizing vendors, recruiting and managing volunteers, organizing publicity/marketing/social media, arranging and scheduling music and dance for the event, budgeting and supervising finances for the event, and arranging family-oriented activities for the event. For further information on specifics of each need, or to potentially join our committee, please contact Sharon Stafford, DBNG Secretary and past Fairy Day Planning Committee Chair at skstaff@charter.net before the end of 2024. Thank you, and we hope you'll want to get involved!
A Successful 2024 Fairy Day!
Fairy Day 2024 at the Daniel Boone Native Gardens was a big success, with over 900 folks attending. We would like to thank all our activities providers: Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, the Watauga Arts Council, the Watauga County Library, the Children’s Playhouse, and Betty Womack. And we would be unable to put on such a fun and entertaining event without all of our wonderful volunteers, including the annual assistance from Charlie Wallin, our gardener Jordan Bailey, and photography by Bill Barbour. Many teen volunteers were provided by Mountain Alliance, as well. And a big shout-out to our wonderful dancers, yoga instructors, and musicians: Erin Williams Banks and Cayla Fralick, Noelle Austin, Gigi Perazolo, Neighborhood Yoga, Sole Impact Studios, Old Souls, The Walls, and Las Rosas y El Clavel. Of course, I’d also like to thank all our vendors for providing the crafts, fairy makeovers, plants and yummy treats: Sarah Spencer (GaeasCandy), Kali Mullins (Gold Dust Creative)Alysia Puckett (Acorn Lief Creations), Yvonne Finne (Peace of Green), Sarah Welch (High Country Crystals, Trish Daniels (Fake a Face face painting), Riley Owens (fairy hair), Marsha Walpole (flower tattoos, Lucy Dees (henna tattoos), The Cardinal food truck, Sunset Slushies, and Poppies Crafted frozen treats. Stick Boy provided wonderful cookies for us to sell, and Jerry Hutchins donated his magical fairy tiny homes for us to sell. And Fairy Day would not be a proper Fairy Day without our lovely and engaging professional fairies: Brucie Abella and Acorn Lief! Finally, I would like to thank the Daniel Boone Native Gardens board members who spent so much time and energy making sure Fairy Day was the best ever: Rebecca Hutchins and Betty Womack (Activities coordinators), Pat Rusch (Volunteer coordinator), Mollie Shanly (Marketing and Publicity coordinator), Martha Ross (Finance Coordinator), and Meredith Perry, (Music & Dance coordinator. It truly takes a village! And what a great village we have!! We hope to see you next year, on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Check back in the spring to see what’s in store for Fairy Day 2025! And keep your lives magical in the meantime!
Sharon Stafford, Chair, Fairy Day Committee and Vendor coordinator, DBNG