Founder's Letter

to sow: to plant a seed

to tarry: to wait, or linger longer than expected

 

To the lovely people who electronically stumble upon this letter,

Raising small humans is like watching forest, towering trees seem as fixed as the granite mountains, while ephemeral blossoms and twinkling fireflies are here but a moment; the present is the only guarantee, and even the immoveable shifts with time. And loving small humans is loving something out-of-this-world, they suddenly arrive in fragile human form, but the love is eternally vast and bottomless. So who better to guide us through the tumult of love and exhaustion and change that is parenthood, but a community of tiny gnomes, who are both out-of-this-realm and living in our very backyards. 

And that’s just speaking for the grown-ups.

Children need a childhood infused with wonder and beauty and complexity. Nature offers it freely, magic included, if you don’t reason it away. The gnomes endeavor to teach children the secrets of Mother Nature and the names and patterns of the living world, so they grow up both reverent of their physical precious planet and open to ideas beyond their wildest imagination.

With the fairies, 

Maddy Green

founder and illustrator of Sow & Tarry