The Kitchens Garden and its farm and its blog have combined to become more than a blog and a farm and a garden. We have become a community. We call that community the Fellowship of the Farmy and I would love you to join us and become part of our daily conversation.
In the age of social media and “sharing” there are a couple of ways you can join our movement towards clean food and strong bodies.
You can join the blog. I post every day at dawn telling you all about yesterday, then I return after milking the cow and doing the chores to talk to The Fellowship in the Lounge of Comments with my morning cup of coffee. This is my treat before I go back outside to get busy on the work of the day. So you, my dear reader, are very important to me and my day.
If you would like to join the Facebook page go here: FACEBOOK
If you would like to join me on Twitter (mostly I Tweet the blog) go here: TWITTER
If you would like to join me on Pinterest (where I try to post my favourite picture of the day – and other weird stuff) go here: PINTEREST.
And now The Farmy is on INSTAGRAM – find me at cecilia_thekitchensgarden.
And most recently I have another INSTAGRAM page for my AirBnB studio apartment called Kitchens Garden Retreat. The instagram page is called kitchensgardenretreat. The retreat is open so if you would like a break on the farm just go ahead and find a date that suits.
Find The Kitchens Garden Retreat on airbnb – HERE.
Thank you so very much for joining me on my quest to grow good clean food and spread the word on how easy it really is to lead the best life you can lead and grow and eat the best food we can afford. Creating our own tiny food revolution. The epitome of grass roots!
Take care.
Your friend on the farmy,
celi
PS. When you sign up (or even if you have been signed up for ages) it might be fun for you to introduce yourself in the comments below. Only if you feel like it though… there is NO PRESSURE in the blog world. I would especially love to know where you come from (just the state or country) we have such a gorgeous range of peoples from different places.
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
199 responses to “Join Us”
Hello! My name is Alison, and I’ve been a reader for a while now. I read your blog every morning while everyone (fiance and dog) is still asleep and the house is quiet. It’s become my own secret tradition. I was raised in rural Pennsylvania, moved to Tacoma, WA for college, and now live in Madison, WI. Your blog is such a wonderful treat because it reminds me of home. My ultimate goal is to have a little farm some day, out in the middle of nowhere, but that’s a long way off so I’ll live vicariously through you until then! I just took a bee-keeping class though, so I’m getting there. I love your outlook on life and I so appreciate your respect for mother nature and your animals. Thanks for taking the time to blog so beautifully!
I have lived in Texas all of my life. Lubbock, Harlingen, Austin, Harlingen again and now San Antonio. I am three years out from retiring as a school librarian and have so enjoyed reading C’s blog about her farmy. Upon retirement, my husband and I hope to do something very similar in Tennessee where we have ten acres, so I am learning from afar from this blog and others about how to do that. But this blog is more than an informational blog, it is a blog (for me) that inspires and provides balance. The farmy is like its own little ecosystem where each element helps the other or contributes in some way, Sheila being the exception, but we adore her! I love that aspect of it and C’s description of and creation of this ecosystem just fascinates me. Since she has put up the Opportunities page, I can now say how excited I am to be the first person to come visit/help/learn on the farmy and stay in the Coupe. (Picture a sturdy 50 year old woman jumping up and down with glee) I am happy to be a part of this Fellowship of farmy followers. Sorry about that mental picture earlier, so think about kittens and puppies now if you can.
Hi Celi,
I’m Kate and I’ve been following you for 2 winters now 🙂 I live with my family {2 gorgeous sons} in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. I love reading your blog and aspire to one day have my own little piece of farmy life xo
Hello Celi! I’m from Toronto, Ontario but sometimes I read and comment from my boathouse porch on Limerick Lake Ontario. I’ve been reading for a long, long time; my blog is about food, restaurants and travel. I’m a city girl through and through (roughing it to me, is slow room service) and I read your beautiful blog everyday in awe. I adore your animals and your photography. For a brief second I was almost inspired to get a pig like Tima, but don’t worry, I came to my senses. I’m so happy to have met you in person last year. It’s my hope to visit you on the farmy on day, maybe even bring my red polka-dot gum boots (from Bath, UK) and stay in your gorgeous retreat to help on the farmy. I may even trim my nails for that! 😉
As you already know, but to make it official, I am just downstate from you in Shelbyville, Illinois! I, too, have a small farm with several animals – but I’m not nearly as sustainable as you. I start my mornings with a cup of coffee and checking posts!
I’m from Ohio but have lived in Michigan, Iowa, and Pennsylvania, too. On the practical side, I read your blog to know what to expect weather-wise the next day, when the weather works as it should. But I love reading about the adventures on the farmy. Many of your tales put me in mind of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh!
Good Morning Celi. I live in a suburb (Duluth) of Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA, where I work as an accountant in a corporate office. So, most of my day is indoors. Yuck! I’m an old-hand at following The Kitchens Garden and feel I’ve survived this terrible winter with you and all your precious animals. Have to say I worried about y’all. I usually read your blog with my morning coffee, but sometimes I read it on my phone during the work day. I grew up on a farm and reading your blog is my nod to that heritage and also a nod to the appreciation I have for folks who help us live a sustainable life. And of course, I read your blog because you are a great writer and photographer!
Oh I joined ages ago, cannot remember when but it seems like years. I am English but I now live in Bulgaria.We have been here nearly 8 years and moved here from Spain where we lived for 7 years. I am 74 years young and just started to learn Bulgarian. My greatest love are my animals, dogs , cats and one husband.. I have 3 daughters from previous marriages, and hub has 2 daughters and 1 son. We have 15 grandchildren and 7 great granchildren.
Oh my goodness – there you are – this blog is migrating soon, to a more robust platform and I am scrolling through making sure I don’t miss anyone who wants to come along for the ride – how are you doing? It has been SO LONG! Pop in – we would love to hear from you!
My husband and I have 5 acres in a small town outside of the KC area called LaCygne. I will retire in a little over a year and we will raise chickens, goats, Dexter cow and we hope to become more like Celi and John and be self sufficient. We already have our big garden planted that I will can and freeze from this year. We love this life!
Hi all! My name is Beth Ann—I joined a while ago but certainly am not among the first readers of this fabulous blog. I currently live in Mason City, Iowa but am hoping for a move to someplace else soon as the hubby got “restructured” out of his job earlier this year and is in the job hunting process. I blog over at It’s Just Life–Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary about just that—life! (www.bethannchiles.com) I love animals and have two cats that are spoiled rotten. I am always so inspired when I read the entries on The Kitchens Garden ! Always something to see and of course, such wonderful writing. One of the first blogs I read every morning with my morning cup of coffee. 🙂
I’ve been visiting the Farmy on a regular basis for some time now and like many here make this my first stop in the early morning. I live south of Seattle Washington but dream of life on a sustainable farm through the words and images set down each day by Celi. I smile daily, laugh often, and have even shed tears reading of this commitment made by you Celi, to your farm, your animals and your beliefs.
Still in the dirty jerz. (New Jersey) I see in the comments that some of you have made it out. Way to go!!!
I been a “joiner” for a bit of time, enjoy your daily farmy posts and am delighted to learn where all your blog guests are writing from.
I live just outside of Chicago on two humble Countryside acres of flora and fauna and weeds with a herd of deer (there are 13 doe, some heavy with child, munching on leaves in my front yard right now).
Weather is coolish today and has generally been quite similar to yours all winter long, but, the sun has appeared, the birds are chirping, and I need to go now to shoo the herd out of my hostas. Penny
Greetings all ya’ll! I am in Houston (originally from Calif., lived for a while in U.K.) My husband and I own a small landscaping & design company. We are all organic and while we do traditional work we also do lots of urban orchards and herb and veg gardens! When I started blogging I came across this wonderful blog. I love animals and support growing our food local! I have a small veggie patch and buy from two local organic small farms, that is where I get my eggs too! I love this blog because it is the kind of news that feels real and important. It is how i start my day everyday with my cuppa tea : )
Hello all from (too) sunny Southern California! I’m a semi-retired professor of sustainability and business and passionate promoter of organic and locally grown food. I discovered this blog by way of Charlotte’s blog, The Daily Cure, when she put up a link to a terrific recipe. Having spent part of my childhood on smallish family farms in Ohio and Michigan helping raise goats and chickens and pigs, I was hooked. Charlotte’s mother has been a dear friend for 25 years and I’m a great fan of Charlotte’s writing. I lived in Budapest, Hungary for 10 years and France for another 10, so am still adjusting to life back here in the US.