Lately we have had a great number of new arrivals to The Kitchens Garden pages.
So for you I will outline the three simple rules that govern my contribution to this blog. (Mine is only the first wave of this blog – the second wave of words is in the Lounge of Comments when you contribute). These are my rules for me and are the foundation of this blog. They have been in place since Day One almost five years ago.
The first rule is that everything you read and see here today: happened just yesterday. This blog is absolutely current. It is a diary of sorts. A daily journal. I am not here to teach you how to farm or live, I am just writing about what happened here yesterday. (Usually not much).
The second rule is that I will tell you the truth. I will not sugar-coat the tough bits and I will tell you all about the good bits. Of course I do not list everything that happened every day as that would bore you to bits. Just little slices of my life running a small sustainably managed farm that is striving for self sufficiency.
The third rule is that (unless I am travelling) all the images will be from my own little farm. This is my challenge to myself – finding something new and beautiful from my own small acres -right here – every day.
The Fellowship of the Farmy is you. You are the people who read and comment, or who read and like, or who read and Share, or who read.
You may steal any of my pictures anytime without permission. (Though when I have other contributing photographers that rule reverses).
The Lounge of Comments is a gentle and wonderful Lounge for us all. We support each other and feed in information for each other and exchange ideas. The comments section of this blog is a mine of information. But be gentle and kind with each other. Judge not.
I invite you to leave a small description of yourself in the page “Join me” . I love to learn about the readers of these pages. You do not need to leave a link to your blog, if you have one, that is already created when you sign in. Just where you are from and how you came to be here. Little things.
I hope you have a lovely day. I wish this for you every morning.
Love celi
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49 responses to “The Rules”
I love that you challenge yourself to view your own farm in new ways for your photos! I appreciate even more your honesty. Recently we have been contacted by local news stations to do a feature on local farms. We have been leary because farming is not the glamorous world people dream it to be. Not that we don’t care greatly for our animals and crops but it is hard, dirty work and those that don’t live a country life don’t always understand.
Thankfully I am still under the radar noone wants to do features on my farm! because news agencies are always looking for an angle and editing can change an ordinary story sinister. This is why I never sugar coat stuff. Best people know that it is not that hard physically to be a farmer but emotionally it is hard to be a good farmer. Being a good honest farmer means we cannot and will not disconnect from our animals and sometimes it is not pretty! Not glamorous at all but Good. great comment – thank you c
Hard to imagine that I didn’t know you just five years ago. You crept into my heart and mind so very gently and swiftly that I didn’t even have a sense of Before & After—just the graceful lapping of your presence on my shore from the first time you stopped by to say Hello on my blog, or I on yours (I know not which by now). That’s such a sweet aspect of this Fellowship, something I never imagined before I was suddenly introduced to it by you (and John, and a very few others), and I thank you. Your presence is a happy constant in my life where I didn’t know I needed one. How lovely of you.
❤
Kath
I did read this post freshly printed on my phone but as the screen is so small I prefer to wait and enjoy the photos full size on my laptop. The day had a mind of its own, so I am now a day late.
What brings me here on a daily basis, the answer is easy:
Buckets of no nonsense honest common sense, layered with beauty of word and picture & most of all your uplifting positivity for each new day.
A visit to the farmy each day (though I’ve been remiss with too many other things yammering for time) keeps me grounded. There is stability there, the working of the land, just as it was intended. Thank you for sharing your life with us.