Category: Writing

• Some little stories for you because The Kitchens Garden blog is celebrating a year of Blogging

  Today is the Fourth of July, 2012.  The Kitchens Garden and its Farmy has been on the internet, blogging about day to day growing, cooking and farming in a sustainable manner, using organic methods  for ONE YEAR! THE CROWD ROARS!  (If you open your mouth like a lion roaring, then whisper the roar you will…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Stories, Sustainable farming, Writing

  farm news, house intruder, life drawing model, Sausage sizzle, toilet paper thief, writing

• The Story of The Day I met Mama the Sheep

  The day I met Mama the Sheep, it was a cold clear January morning. A man had called me and said he had sheep to sell, did I want a few.  So we hitched the rusty stock trailer to the red truck and went North. The fancy new subdivision on the outskirts of Chicago was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 16, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Stories, Writing

  buying sheep, lambs, sheep, sheep barn

• Something has to be done about the fighting

  I had a discussion in the barn last night about the cockfights in the farmyard. … Miss C: Peghorn.  Have you been fighting with other roosters? Have you looked at your face lately? Peghorn: There is nothing wrong with my face. I have a pretty face. Miss C: You have bite marks. Peghorn:  No Miss…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 27, 2012

  Farming, Photography, Writing

  chickens, cock fights, roosters, sheep

• Saturday that was Sunday, could be Monday – Reads and Awards

  Everyone is in a different time zone. I was writing this on Saturday, I will be finishing  it on Sunday and some of you will be reading it on Monday when I publish it on Sunday!  I just discovered that there is a state in America, I cannot remember which one, that has two different…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 26, 2012

  Farming, Writing

  blogs to read, border collie, cold weather, food blogs, hay, rooster, sheep, writing blogs

• The A-Z of saving money while running an efficient, sustainable home and lifestyle

  Today we are going to discuss how to manage your home sustainably.  Sustainable means not stretching your resources, environmentally, financially or emotionally.  We all try to work within our means.  For me on the farmy  it means thinking about and creating systems  that encourage that cycle of use and reuse.  We need to scorn the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 24, 2012

  Writing

  how to live an environmentally friendly life, how to save money in the home, sustainable homes