Category: Travel
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Extreme wind on the Beach
Not as pleasant as one had hoped. The wind was so ferocious that we needed sunglasses and hats. But the hats blew off and the little ones got sand in their eyes and we were blown all the way back to the bach. Even the roads in the little town were heaving with sand. Look…
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Composting in The City
Wellington, New Zealand is known as the windy city in these parts. And usually the winds are ferocious. But yesterday was another stunning mild wind free day. So, of course, we were in the garden of this old stucco house clinging to the side of hill in Miramar in Wellington battling the wildness. This has…
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Back in New Zealand
And so glad of it. I found myself taking huge gulps of the swampy salty Māngere air as I crossed the tarmac at Auckland Airport to clamber up into the final plane in the long journey home to New Zealand from Illinois. Landing in Wellington, I discovered that my son had come to pick me…
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It is Saturday. I know!
The new website is up. I am leaving the farm tomorrow (I am taking you with me though – Kate is making me an extra big pocket to stow you all in). I will travel as sustainably as I can as long as I don’t have to walk across the country or stay in a…
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Home Again … Jiggedy …
Lots of pictures today. Because. There is nothing quite like stumbling off a cramped shared-air airplane and straight back out onto the Midwest farm with its wide open spaces and air as sharp and clean as a whistle. And so much green growth. Everything is flourishing. I am back on the farm for a month…
The Kitchen's Garden 