Category: Life

• 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

• Can you sleep in?

  Yesterday I took the last of my allotted honey  from the bees.  This year each small  super has yielded just over 2 gallons of lovely clear honey.   I had three honey supers on two hives. So all up we have harvested  a little under 7 gallons (or 26 litres if my calculations are correct)…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 31, 2012

  Bees, Flower Garden, Life, Photography

  anemone, bees, honey, rooster, sheep

• “You can’t put my Mom in a chicken coop!”

  Yesterday after milking and chores and the school run we drove to the city and I dropped the cooking oil car off with the mechanic. It was a two and a half hour round trip just to get there and back. The mechanic is my new best friend.  He totally ignored my accent, and my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 30, 2012

  Life, Photography

  Building a little house, Diesel Volkswagon Golf, Old fashioned midwest chicken coop

• 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