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
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199 responses to “Join Us”
Hi! Now you have a follower from Greece! I’m Marina, I live near Athens on what used to be a farm until Athens grew and surrounded it. We still have some land and keep chickens and grow veggies but the cows and pigs are gone. We have plenty of olive trees, though, and produce our own oil, as well as citrus and pomegranate trees. Will be an avid follower from now on. Hi to everyone.
I just signed up and plan to enjoy your blog. I live in a condo in North Carolina. My view is my outdoor space. I have a porch that faces woods and a stream.
I am a quilter, knitter and reader. I belong to a great book club. I teach quilting and knitting in my bonus room. …all women younger than me. I want to pass it on. Lessons are too expensive, besides I enjoy the friendship.
Blessings all around, Lee
Thank you for your wonderful blog. I enjoy your perspectives and photographs. I grew up in town, but got called to help on Grandpa’s vineyard after storms. Growing up, I also irrigated alfalfa and bucked hay for Dad – usually under challenging conditions. I thought the farm life wasn’t for me until my career path was established. I am now retired to a half acre lot in the not so rural Town of Apple Valley out in the Mojave Desert of California. I have 5 chickens, a relatively small vegetable garden, a native ornamental garden and a “fixer upper”. I also went back to school to study construction technology. Yup. It really is a fixer upper. I am learning a lot from blogs like yours. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hello, my name is Simca and I am a fellow blogger, farmer and I live in Florida. I stumbled upon your blog by visiting Applewood farm blog. Wow, I love this and a post every day! I must step up my newbie game! Looking forward to learning from you and your readers! We have chickens, rabbits, a pig a horse and a few thousand bees.
My blog is farmskitchen. com, check it out if you have time.
Happy farming.
Hi, I’m Kimberly. We have a 10-acre hobby farm in western Wisconsin and have a little herd of Herefords. I also love gardening and cooking. I just started my blogging journey and your blog was recommended to me. I can definitely relate to many of your posts.
I am Laura from Catalonia, I live in a farm located at 1 hour drive from Barcelona city. I just started blogging about my life in the countryside with my 2 little children. ❤️ Great blog and very inspiring! Congratulations C 👌
Hello! I “followed” today. From a city in Massachusetts, and, no, not Boston, so I never got to have a farm and I’m not sure I’d fully love living in “the country.” But I’ve turned my postage stamp size yard into a garden and I’m learning! Your blog spoke to me about the value of simple and gentle.
I just found your blog, I absolutely love it. I love your work. I aspire to have a small farm one day, just self sustainable to feed my family and community. Thank you for all the work that you do. We do not appreciate our small famers enough and your animals are absolutely glorious, down to the orange tabbies.
Hello! My name is Melanie, and I live on a farm in the beautiful Winelands area of Stellenbosch, South Africa. I want to become more self-sufficient, so am happy to have found your blog! It’s truly inspiring.
So nice, I remembered all about my moms farm. We had so much hard under the sun and even if it’s raining. I know how’s the life in the farm. I love your page
What a wonderful blog! I live on 14 acres outside Sioux Falls, SD. I am a Family Physican, mother of three young girls and enjoy living off the land (and not going to the grocery store!) My motivation has been inspired from my under-resourced patients whose chronic health issues stem largely from low quality foods and lack of meaningful interactions within the community. My blog is very new but seeks to be more like yours- gleanforgood.co. Thanks so much for inspiring us!
Thank you for reading Elizabeth. Your food has such a huge impact on your health. I agree. I hate the grocery store too – Hate it!! c
I am glad this has worked out for you. You seem to have a passion for your role. I tried it for 5 years: kids born on the farm; building up a dairy goat herd–with a bit of an old Macdonald’s farm on the side (not quite the variety you have though); used equipment; jury rigging stuff; fixing stuff, and so on. It was not fun after awhile.
Oh well, I made a good go of it for a city boy; born and raised. My parents were what I called hillbillies from Nova Scotia. Down to earth brutal european honesty and all. My mother told me, after we declared we were going to leave our “successful” yuppy lifestyles in the Toronto, “you’ve got rocks in your head!”
Anyway, good for you. The photos evoke lots of memories for me.
I joined you recently.
I am from India, and although I am city bred, I can relate to many of the farm-stuff you write about because when I was growing, we had cows and hens, farmers and what not in our neighbourhood (yeah, in the city).
Love your lifestyle.
In my native language (Tamil), we have a literary work that dates back to 500 BCE called Thirukkural where there are 10 couplets dedicated to the farmer. My all-time favourite is one that goes “Only the one who makes food lives. The rest follow his footsteps”
Wow! that is a tremendous line. I might share that line with The Fellowship in tomorrows post. is there more? c
The translation of the ten couplets are as under:
1031
Howe’er they roam, the world must follow still the plougher’s team;
Though toilsome, culture of the ground as noblest toil esteem.
1032
The ploughers are the linch-pin of the world; they bear
Them up who other works perform, too weak its toils to share.
1033
Who ploughing eat their food, they truly live:
The rest to others bend subservient, eating what they give.
1034
O’er many a land they ‘ll see their monarch reign,
Whose fields are shaded by the waving grain.
1035
They nothing ask from others, but to askers give,
Who raise with their own hands the food on which they live.
1036
For those who ‘ve left what all men love no place is found,
When they with folded hands remain who till the ground.
1037
Reduce your soil to that dry state, When ounce is quarter-ounce’s weight;
Without one handful of manure, Abundant crops you thus secure.
1038
To cast manure is better than to plough;
Weed well; to guard is more than watering now
1039
When master from the field aloof hath stood;
Then land will sulk, like wife in angry mood.
1040
The earth, that kindly dame, will laugh to see,
Men seated idle pleading poverty.
My name is Kelly. I am from a small town in Alabama. Originally, from a larger town, but after I married I moved to the countryside. My family is slowly trying to transition to a more self sufficient lifestyle. I am new to this blogging site, but I stumbled upon your blog and knew that I could probably learn a thing or two. I enjoy your daily posts.