⭐️ The Kitchen’s Garden Travels ⭐️
Welcome to The Kitchen’s Garden Travels, from a small, organic, and sustainably managed homestead out on the prairies of Illinois to the sandy suburb towns of Melbourne, Australia. Since 2011, I've been sharing tales of homesteading, gardening, and sustainable living from our farm, and my travels weaving stories of the past to guide us into the future. When not tending to the farm, I journey internationally to visit my grown children and cook for them, develop their gardens and mind their children.
(This picture of me was taken in such a high wind it blew my wrinkles away - which is why I like it!😂. Oh vanity!!)
As a New Zealander living in the USA, I bring a unique perspective to our shared experiences. For much of this year (2025) I will be gardening, nannying and reading from Wellington, New Zealand or Melbourne, Australia or back on the farm in Illinois, USA. I know it is trendy to pretend we are not real people with real families and familial duties but we are. We are personal. This is where all our best stories come from. Don’t lets hide who we are.
In this delightful SubStack space, I present two experiences.
🐞 FIRSTLY: Twice a week I narrate BedTime stories for you, free as I read them. While this may seem a little off the sustainable brand; embracing a broad spectrum is part of our charm. 😀 And these stories are all over 100 years old so they are packed with simple living. But for the most part I offer BedTime Stories because balancing a sustainable lifestyle requires daily moments of calm, allowing our minds to rest and replenish. Maintaining a connection with our imaginative inner child is vital for nurturing creativity. So, I offer serialised versions of my favourite BedTime stories, delivering a chapter every few days. Enjoy these during yoga, over a cup of tea, while making beds or doing dishes, on your commute, or at bedtime. Let your mind find solace and rest within these well-known tales.
⭐️ We loved being read to as kids: why not as adults!
🐞 SECONDLY: Once a week, I write the Kitchen’s Garden Travels newsletter. If I'm on the farm, I write from and about the farm. If I'm in town, I share stories from my city gardens with country hearts. You'll journey with me as I garden and recount tales of growing up in simpler times, embracing the best sustainable practices of our ancestors, cultivating our own food, cooking that food, monitoring our impact on the environment and adopting minimalist living that honours our planet. In the newsletter I blend age-old stories and timeless lessons with modern wisdom, integrating them into the challenging and changing lives we live today.
🍊All content is freshly crafted, ensuring everything you read is current and pertinent. And my own. You will see typos, I write this all myself without AI. I don’t write content for the sake if it. Everything I write is about right now. Present and pertinent. Flawed and all.
Step into The Kitchen’s Garden Travels. Join me as I extend a warm welcome from the very heart of the farms and gardens I journey though through and kitchens where I pause.
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For those eager to explore further: Discover a wealth of fascinating content on self-sufficiency and environmentally sustainable living and organic sustainably managed farming at The Kitchen’s Garden, the farm, travel and garden blog. Running since 2011, this blog beautifully dovetails with "The Kitchen’s Garden Travels" here on SubStack.
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We all aspire to live simpler, more frugal, and sustainable lives. We aim to foster robust local food communities within our regions. I can assist you in finding your balance, even as I strive to find my own; sometimes with the grace of a seasoned gardener, other times more like a novice mountain climber in jandals. Together, we'll travel and engage in conversations with gardeners and cooks as we develop our own gardens and recipes. Because you know - gardens are never done!
We are never done!
Celi
