The Kitchen's Garden

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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.

My farms are organic and regenerative and full of stories. I have been writing here about environmentally sustainable farming and food and travel since 2011.

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LATEST POSTS

BEACH

All I really wanted was this beach. We ate and drank wine and shopped and wandered the streets but all I really wanted and all I really needed, was this beach.
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GALVESTON

I awoke this morning to the sounds of beach birds. My window is wide open to the scented sea air. The rattan blinds gently rocking in the sweetest of breezes. I am sitting in a big comfy bed, with my letterless laptop propped on a cushion on my knees. Bliss.
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IN SCHOOL

I am at the school in Houston TX. Through the gates. Signed in. And offline. No photographs yet as I am on a borrowed school laptop. There is a security protocol to me getting my own computer or phone online here. And downloading images onto another computer is fraught with difficulty so no photos yet.…
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BLEACHED, BEACHED

The last of the warm days is upon us. Though todays will be a cloudy warmth. After this we go down to more seasonal temperatures for the forseeable future (forseeable future being the 10 days of estimates the weather site gives us). Waking up to a 51F/10C morning full of birdsong, in February, is pretty rare.…
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DAY TWO

Day Two of abundant sunshine has dawned. So once again I will open up the North doors and shovel manure out onto the huge compost pile.
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A SEA CHANGE

We have sun. A sea change. A striking change. A sun change ” … into something rich and strange.” A sunny day. Not a warm day particularly. But after such a gray and dark winter – the appearance of sun leaves us gasping with delight.
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