Category: Living the life

• 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

• 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