After an eclectic life juggling overlapping careers: high school teacher of drama, script developer, photographer, director for stage in New Zealand (all the while managing to raise five children of her own to adulthood) – then as a personal assistant and reader for a film director in London, Cecilia gave up her rather frantic jet setting lifestyle for the deep quiet of a prairie farm in America. She raises and grows almost all her own food and is the author and photographer for thekitchensgarden.com where she documents and comments on her life as a farmer in Central Illinois.