Why am I here?. That is what the header ‘ABOUT’ is asking me to explain. Well, I want to join the chorus of players out there who are calling out and saying “Relax. Life can be simple” There is so much we actually do not need. So much in our lives now that were luxuries 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago. So much that is drawing from the earth and not paying back. So much food that is cluttering up our arteries, destroying the good bacteria in our gut and making us ill. So many additives that are not even FOOD! So much food that is not even FOOD! So much noise chattering in our brains. So many images confusing our thinking. So many science experiments infiltrating our fields and refrigerators.
Take a breath and sit with me a moment. Here is my hope. That we can heal our environment with our choices. That we can learn to grow our food or find someone who can grow it and support them. That we never leave the soil uncovered. That we can tread gently upon the earth that feeds us.
It is very, very scary when we raise our heads and actually focus on the damage to our land. But enough of the calling out. Enough of the ducking heads. Let’s do it. Let’s learn to grow good clean food and live a chemical free life. So that is why I have begun this series of work. To show us that we can do it. We can cover all the soil in our spaces with healing plants. We can plant jungles of trees. We can live simply. That small is OK. That gentle is good. That kind is the most underrated quality in a person. That clean food you grow yourself and cook for yourself is amazing. That good sparkling healthy tastes on our plates shared with the family around the table every single night should be normal.
Join me in developing a mostly sustainable/mostly self sufficient/ mostly organic farm to feed ourselves plus a few, right out here in the Midwest of America. Because life is just like that. It actually is that simple.
I might be away from the midwest every now and then, helping other farmers and other bakers and other home growers, but that’s OK. I will bring you too.
cecilia
PS Don’t mistake compost for garbage! (laughter!!).
The Kitchen's Garden 
241 responses to “About”
Very nice blog, Cecilia!!! Love the pictures…
Hi, just wanted to let you know that i nominated your blog for a “Family of Bloggers” award and it is totally okay if you choose not to play. Cheers! Nancy
Hi Cecelia, I have followed your blog for a while and wondered if you were interested in submitting a post to a new event called Our Growing Edge. The event aims to compile a monthly snapshot as to what bloggers are doing in terms of new challenges with food. This monthly event aims to connect and inspire us to try new things.
A growing edge is the part of us that is still learning and experimenting. It’s the part that you regularly grow and improve, be it from real passion or a conscious effort.
I hope you can make it. More info can be found here: http://bunnyeatsdesign.com/our-growing-edge/
Cecilia, I am not sure if you “accept” awards. However, I just wanted to let you know I nominated you for 2. The Very Inspiring Blogger and One Lovely Blog Awards. To find out more you can go to my post for today and check it out. Thanks for being such a wonderful Blogger.
I am so grateful that you should nominate me .. thank you so much, but as you can imagine I am swamped at the moment though.. I so wish i could come out out and play! have a brilliant day and thank you so much! c
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Hi Cecilia… I’ve nominated you for an award entitled ‘Best Moment’! I didn’t even know it existed til my nomination a couple of days ago… but I really felt that ‘The Kitchen’s Garden’, with your beautiful writing and snapshots of life’s moments, suited it completely. If you’d like to take a look, the nomination is right here: http://laurasmess.me/2013/03/15/awards-and-acknowledgements/
Thank you Laura, what a treat in the hectidness of life at the moment.. which moment did you think was best? I shall pop over to see.. c
Hi Cecilia,
This is to let you know that I’m nominating you for a “Very Inspiring Blogger Award”
http://beyondprague.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/beyond-prague-at-three-months-old-an-award-to-show-for-it/
Your message of healthier eating and simpler living is very inspiring indeed. 🙂
Hi. Serendipity must be in the air today. I was sitting out on our porch this lovely spring morning sipping coffee and thinking “what a peaceful, calm, enjoyable day.” I particularly loved watching the birds come and go from the feeder. Then I stumbled on your blog about simple, gentle living. It was perfect for my mood! I have enjoyed looking at all the farm pictures and imagining how rewarding it must be to be so close to nature, in so many ways, every day.
Looking forward to following you.
Good morning Al and thank you, i am doing exactly the same thing now, drinking coffee, still in my filthy farm clothes with hands that are seriously questionable as to cleanliness, watching the birds in the maple trees. Lovely to meet you and thank you much for joining the fellowship of the farmy! c
Good evening! How are you? You know me as “Granny.” The business that owned that blog was sold, which was the kick in the behind I needed to turn my attention to artwork. I looked forward to returning here as myself, through my own blog and had to say hello before I browse around to catch up with the adventures of the Farmy. It’s good to be back. Wishing you a sunny month of May. ~ PS MacMurray
Granny there you are!! Excellent. Do I call you PS now? i shall come over and visit tomorrow and see your art work.. wonderful and thank you for your kind comments about Mia, it will all work out one way or the other, life is like that.. c
PS it is, or MacMurray, or both, or Paschal… Whatever you prefer, Thank you.
Hello! Thank you for your blog ‘like’! I never cease to be amazed and gratified by the way people find their way to me. I have enjoyed looking at all your lovely pictures. I’ll drop by again. 🙂
good morning christina, lovely to see you in the comments!
Precisely my way of thinking and living! Thanks for this breath of fresh air 🙂
Love that header photo of the storm clouds!
Just to let you know that I have nominated you for 4 awards: http://nightmarelogic.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/some-awards-and-some-nominees/ No worries either way – Just showing my appreciation!
That is very kind of you. goodness FOUR awards.. I am unable to play the award game in the summer, things are pretty busy and I barely have time enough to visit the blogs I so love to visit let alone anything else. However that was very kind of you to think of me. I shall pop over to your blog and read your lovely pages.. thank you again.. c
Very well said…enjoy reading about others that feel growing food is how we can heal…also so much we don’t need, you are right…we all need to get outside with our hands in the soil:-) robbie
Morning Robbie, how lovely to see you over here.. hands in the soil! nothing quite compares! c
I am so glad you left a comment on my blog today as it led me back to your wonderful inspiring blog. Love your outlook on food and I am looking forward to following more of your September food challenge.