Category: Farming

• Being a stranger in a strange land, carrying a little bit of home in my pocket.

  Do you ever feel like laying your head flat on the table and just bawling. Just close your eyes and lay the whole side of your face onto the table and cry. Not where people can see you. Not as an exhibition. Maybe, when you are alone in the kitchen cleaning up after the dinner…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 5, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  coping with home sickness, peacock, sad, vegetable gardens

• Frogs cry

  This is going to sound like a Tall Tale but I swear it is true.  Yesterday morning  began as an ordinary day. I milked Daisy the cow.   Then Queenie Wineti convinced me that the cows should be allowed out on the greening grass for a bit. Daisy has been schooling her in the Intense…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 4, 2012

  Bees, Life, Sustainable farming

  bees holding hands, cows, frog, frog calls, muddy pig

• Our smallest crew member is M.I.A.

  I am never sure how to tell you sad news. But I promised I would.  Tell you.  There are three promises I make for the The Kitchen’s Garden Weblog. 1. (Unless I tell you) All the shots you see are from the last 24 hours so you will see what I have seen each day. 2.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 3, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  Barn, cat, chickens, loss, mourning

• Wet Farmy with a Flying Peahen…

  See what happens when we take the day off. And no, I did not get a sleep in, instead there was a murder in the bedroom when Our John forgot that I was having a sleep in and WOKE ME UP!@!! at 5am.  I told him that hundreds and hundreds of people in more than…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cow, flying peahen, ram, sheep

• Working alone on the farmy

  Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers.  Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today.  And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barns, cell phone, farm photography, ladders, life, safety on the farm