# How to lead a Folletour

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here's an example of an itinerary for the Folletour -- skillfully summarized by our dear Butter toast &lt;3</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![Carte.jpg](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2025-12/scaled-1680-/carte.jpg)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2025-12/carte.jpg)1. Meeting point for the start of the Folletour: The “Bus stop” by the garden</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![vegetable garden](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1760429.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1760429.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Small intro on Radical Fairies</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Welcome Home” fabric = Folleterre is a sanctuary for queer people from all over the world</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Garden, composting and wells = Radical faeries are ecologically-concious and trying as best as they could to live a life respecting their environment and nature in general</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We drink the water from the land</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We compost our biowastes and grow vegetables and herbs in the garden</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We cook and eat veggie food, with vegan options</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Radical faeries actively try and recreate a link with nature through rituals in nature and nurturing our land</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Small intro on Folleterre, our land</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Found and purchased in 2005 by a group of Euro faeries</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The house and a piece of the land is owned by an “association régie par la loi de 1901”, a French non-profit organization, called *Les Amis de Folleterre* (The Friends of Folleterre)</span>
        - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Two adjacent pieces of land are privately owned by two faeries</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. Pink Potty Club</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1770533.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1770533.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1770533.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Toilets systems through the ages &amp; hygiene in Folleterre</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pink Potty Club is the current toilets system of Folleterre: Perpetual composting system with two separate cabins.</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Before that: the shit tower and the Rabbit hole, garbage bins in the Pink Potty Club</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For peeing: Fairies can pee outside but be mindful of the conditions </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> if the weather is dry, don’t pee too close to where people live.</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hygiene in Folleterre: we live in large groups and close proximity, be careful about your health and the health of other fairies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Washing your hands after you go to the toilets is super important to prevent spreading diseases + wash your hands when you enter the breakfast barn, the pantry and the kitchen and before every meal</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Warning about previous shigella outbreaks to stress the importance of this and emphasize the collective responsibility we share</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Washing hands: water and soap OR hydroalcoholic gel – show where a refill can be found if there is no more gel somewhere + using this example of an empty soap ou gel dispenser empty, talk on responsibility of every faery to make things work: if you find a task, do it or ask someone to do it or help you do it</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. Smoking area</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![smoking area](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1470548.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1470548.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Discuss rules about smoking on the land</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Good occasion to repeat the rules about not offering drugs and being discreet and conscious about other people’s struggle with addiction + the Hermes role?)</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Good spot to talk about impermanence in Folleterre, how things move and change fast when people set their mind and effort to it</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. Front of the house</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![front](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1470662.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1470662.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fire pit, Venus Hill, yoga deck, business lounge, the meadow</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Big places of sociability, rituals, workshops, sharing meals and time outside</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Place the kitchen, the breezeway and the breakfast barn from the outside</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. Dish dance area</span>

[![dish](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1760763.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1760763.JPG)

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sacred ritual of the dish dance &amp; policy on amplified music in Folleterre</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6. Going up the stairs</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1770093.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1770093.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1770093.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Friendship room: warm and cosy space for chilly days and nights in the early spring and autumn, heart circles, massage workshops, sock wrestling and more</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kitchen – wash your hands!</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7. Breezeway, pantry</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1300924.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1300924.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1300924.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Medicine cabinet, first aid kit, storage of some necessary items (hot water bottles, batteries, candles, sunscreen, etc.)</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Be careful of properly closing the food cabinets because of the mices and other pests //if you see an empty bottle of sunscreen (or whatever), throw it away, if there is no more sunscreen, write it down on the groceries list (repetition about faery responsibility to make things work)</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8. Breakfast barn</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1460566.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1460566.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1460566.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wash your hands faeries!</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Self-service place for breakfast and snacks + serving food inside the house + cups shelves and pin system to name your glass/cup/mug to keep it and reduce the dish dance size</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9. Through the stairs by the tool shed</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![circus](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1100789-jpg.jpg)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1100789-jpg.jpg)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tool shed for outside and inside work</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Art and Craft storage &amp; Love Lounge (good place to talk about the love temple outside without going there)</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Circus Room - Place of no talent shows, auctions, big group workshops and rituals when the outside is inhospitable</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Drag Room – let your fabulousness shine and play with your limits! Keep it tidy as much as possible, be responsible of what you get and put back there.</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Attic – Not a dormitory until it is again… Place for small workshops or heart circles and drying laundry</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Library</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hospitality room for special needs faeries</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10. Down the stairs to the bath area</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![bath](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1770518.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1770518.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cellar to store food that needs colder temperature</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bath area: how we take cold water from the spring and warm it up with fire / Don’t use hot water before a dishdance / Fill the hot water tank back up when you use some + don’t hesitate to put wood in the fire under the hot water tank</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How we shower and bath</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Being careful with fire: accidents can happen fast and Lure’s firefighters are not even sexy / story of the sauna and the previous wood shed </span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11. On the way to the prairie</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1760396.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1760396.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1760396.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Talk about the different camping spots</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12. Ancestor tree and prairie</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![ancestor](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1470584.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1470584.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Magical place of community rituals, remembrance of the ancestors, etc.</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13. Back from ancestor tree and on the way to the trans-cestor trees</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[![P1310325.JPG](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/scaled-1680-/p1310325.JPG)](https://temp2.tmilon.com//uploads/images/gallery/2026-05/p1310325.JPG)</span>

- - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Point to meditation rock and to the way to the first lake</span>
    - <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Place of remembrance of the trans ancestors and rituals of protection of our trans faerie siblings</span>

#### <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">14. Going back down to the house (water tanks and water pump)</span>

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