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”
Greetings from East Tennessee! I’ve followed the farmy blog for a couple of years now, since before Minty and Meadow were born. I’m a zookeeper and a writer, and in my college days I worked on a sheep/pig/cow operation. It was nothing like the farmy.
I have been reading for a number of years, but not yet signed up to “follow!” We have a small goat farm (had wonderful Coopworth and Border Leicester sheep as well until about a month ago) here in midcoast Maine. I am also a teaching young adult librarian for my day job. Love being part of your farm fellowship!
Hello! So I actually found this blog through my landscaper–see Laurin Lindsey above! It only took reading the “about” section for me to know this is a blog I will love! My fiancé and I live in Houston, Texas and bought a house in suburbia this past August. We immediately put in some vegetable beds and have been growing as much of our own organic produce (with varying degrees of success) since! There is nothing more rewarding for me than producing our very own herbs and food for everyday consumption. Hoping to continue expanding our little garden life here and excited for inspiration from you and your readers!
I am a HUGE fan of c’s farmy blog. I adore her sense of humour, her outlook on life, her simplicity and complexities, and I love that her photography often inspires my muse. I live in West Sussex, UK, where I write, bake, cook, garden, talk to Molly (my Springer Spaniel), and cherish every moment of retirement with my husband.
Kia Ora. I live in Whitby, Porirua, Aotearoa (New Zealand)…..about 30kms north west of Wellington. I’ve been reading along for a good while now and love reading Celi’s posts at breakfast time here.
Enjoying the days on your farm for about 6 months now from Oregon … USA. I’m new to farming, and your blog is a great inspiration. We share our lives with a beautiful Great Dane named, Penni, 14 hens, and the real captain of this farm – our rooster gentleman Benedict!
I have been reading your blog for a long time. I start my day with reading a handful of farmy blogs and yours is the first to be read, always. I feel like all of your animals are mine, but you take care of them!
The Hyde family own a dairy farm in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. Jon and I bought the farm 14 years ago, and we have worked very hard to expand it from one cow, a calf and a bull to around 250 female Jerseys. We milk around 150 cows, and we also raise around 250 Holstein heifers for another dairy farmer. We get the Holsteins when they are newly-weaned, we raise and inseminate them and return them to their owner when they are 2 months away from calving. Jon is a systems analyst and farms during week-ends, while I (Dinki) run the farm and also homeschool our two daughters, Firn (17) and Rain (15), who have never been to school. We absolutely love the family-friendliness of the farm life. Our winters are very dry and temperate (our coldest recorded temperature is -9 degrees Celsius) and our summers are hot and wet. Our average rainfall is around 800 mm. Celi, I read your blog every morning around 04:30 while having a cup of our delicious indigenous tea. It is a great way to start my days, which are full and busy, and sometimes very stressful. I admire the way you care for your animals and I feel for you when an animal is sick or when you have inclement weather. My family gets an update from me about the Farmy every day. I think you do an amazing job!
What a lovely fellowship you have grown, Miss C. I’ve been visiting for quite some time from Virginia, USA.
I’ve been visiting for a year or two, and love your blog, especially as I’m also from New Zealand (as you know, but I guess the location idea is for all of us). I’m a writer, who has published books about the seasons, rituals, creativity, midlife, ageing and spirituality. I live in Auckland, close to the sea, and my blog is http://seasonalinspiration.blogspot.com (even though the link keeps reverting to my website, because it prefers to give a WordPress address)
Kaipara Flats – just west of Warkworth, New Zealand. I started following the blog around January this year. I work nights at a bakery and your posts arrive in my inbox around 1am, which coincides with my ‘ morning tea ‘ break. Seeing how the Farmy family are doing always brightens my shift. I live on a 6 acre lifestyle block and I raise a few calves each year for weaner sale. I also keep two each year for our freezer. I am a not very good blogger, most days I forget to do it. I also garden – when I remember.
Mostly I paint and work on my 12th century living history projects.
I live in the city fringe/Inner West of Sydney, Australia with my partner referred to in my blog as the Gorgeous One (G.O.). I’ve been blogging, and enjoying visiting Miss C. and the Farmy for a couple of years, usually with a cup of coffee before my morning walk before going to work at my office job in a high-rise building overlooking the harbour in the CBD. Our aim is to move from our small city apartment to our house in the country village of Taylors Arm, where we hope to at least have a few chooks for eggs, a cat and a dog for company, grow veges and as much as possible feed ourselves. I love being in the good company of The Fellowship in the Lounge of Comments.
Hi Celi, I am soooo late in joining – only recently have discovered your blog after my brother started telling me what Sheila had been up to and I then had to start finding out for myself. I am in southern England, start my day with a walk with the dogs, then out to look after the chickens, afterwards a nice cup of English tea and read up on your news. I love to hear what you and all the animals have been up to, it makes me smile, it makes me laugh, sometimes its sad but then the pictures and the way you describe it all is so lovely. Thank you for bringing us all so much in our day in so many different countries. I haven’t got a favourite animal but I absolutely adore Marcel. Oh and Tima of course. And then there’s Godot, Oh and Sheila and……………….!!! Oh I love them all. Love to you and all there. x
I live outside Washington DC between the chaos of the city and the wine country of Virginia. I teach sixth grade science and am a passionate organic gardener. I read your blog every morning and worried about your animals when it was so incredibly cold. I’ve never lived on a farm but think I could. I’ve been following your blog for a while and also have a garden blog.
I have lived across the pond in Ireland for all but two years of my life. From birth to late twenties in Dublin, the Capital city of the ROI. I moved for a four letter word, one hundred miles up the road to the top right corner of the map, to Northern Ireland, part of the UK. Same language but very different culture!
I have been a follower of the farmy for quite some time now, so much so that I had withdrawal symptoms over the last ten days, while away on holiday. I love reading & learning about all the residents and what they get up to on a daily basis. Thank you Celi for allowing me to be part of it
Lán grá & hugs,
Grannymar