Farm Queen Adventures of a First Generation Farm Girl: Small town girl who fled rural life to live in the city only to return to the country to learn to farm with nature & against the industrial system.

I found a little more adventure than I bargained for while becoming a self-taught first-generation organic farmer. Once a tenacious small-town girl who moved to the city to escape rural living, only to return to the country 15 years later to become what I had never anticipated: a farmer! The future I wanted was declared barren, so I birthed a new one.

A series of fantastical lessons and funny adventures led the way to my self-declaration of Farm Queen. Animal wifery is not for the faint of heart! To become a lady farmer, I underwent a metamorphosis, losing 100 lbs, a husband, my first farm, often my dignity and a favourite cow!

But gaining my independence, self-confidence, a huge variety of life skills, and a ferocious love for farming was worth the loss, the lessons and heartache. I now have the courage to live life on my terms, on my very own farm.

Cindy grew up in a small town in southwestern Ontario, leaving as soon as she finished high school to chase some big-city dreams. Putting herself through college, building a career and eventually having kids were the key parts of her 10-year plan! Cindy learned quickly that life doesn't always turn out as you plan.She moved back to rural living to become what she never envisioned for herself: a farmer, born out of the necessity to replace the life she wanted with a new dream. Life was remarkable while raising cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and quail on her very own organic farm. She raised more than a little hell in changing the local food market and led the charge with monthly meat subscriptions.Now Cindy welcomes the next chapter of her life after a big move across the country with a new love and his three kids. Rumbling over the Canadian shield in an RV to move to Alberta to begin her journey as a writer and full-time stepmother, she learned that some dreams just take a little longer to arrive.