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My interview with Kim was originally published May 30, 2016 but has consistently been downloaded and since we seem to be talking a lot about cruelty free living these days I thought I would replay it for new listeners and others to enjoy again! From Townie to Organic Farmer – Transitioning from Urban to Rural Lifestyle with Kim Romeril Cruelty Free Living at the Seaview Cottage http://organicgardenerpodcast.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e3e16d6ddb7c0acd9e17348ed&id=b6a8f6bd31&e=e16e7400c4 () We’d love if you’d join  http://organicgardenerpodcast.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e3e16d6ddb7c0acd9e17348ed&id=b6a8f6bd31&e=e16e7400c4 (Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!) Where you can connect with me and KIM!!! To learn about the https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/?p=3080 (iTunes giveaway )visit our website at the https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/?p=3080 (organicgardenerpodcast.com) From the other side of the world in New Zealand meet Kim Romeril from the Seaview Cottage! https://www.facebook.com/seaviewcottage.dunedin/?pnref=lhc () https://www.facebook.com/seaviewcottage.dunedin/?pnref=lhc (Seaview Cottage on Facebook) https://tendeepbreaths.wordpress.com/ (Seaview Cottage) https://www.facebook.com/seaviewcottage.dunedin/?pnref=lhc () https://www.facebook.com/seaviewcottage.dunedin/?pnref=lhc () Tell us a little about yourself. Oh Gosh?! Where do we start? Im a 33 year old mother of 3 children… We live just out of Dunedin, just out of Dunedin up the coast a wee bit in a small rural community called Purakanui …  we were living in a really small community before that … it’s a Seaside community and  my children go to this fabulus school which at the moment has 12 students! IT’s an enriched environment being close to the coast and being in an agricultural environment.  We originally lived in town, which is 30 minutes probably not far away in the scheme of other cities and stuff in other places and even for New Zealand. We lived in Dunedin for about 5 years prior to that we lived in a small community. But we really felt we were disassociated, driving all over the place to a plethora of extra curricular activities scattered across the city, both my husband and I were really stressed and tired. http://amzn.to/1Z8LcvR () I was doing  a bit of  research on emotinoal well-being through my job and I realized I kind of hit the http://amzn.to/1Z8LcvR (rushing woman syndrome). I was really exhausted because I was just flat tagged constantly…as a result the kids were losing touch with some of the grassroots values we held as a family. We decided that we needed to do something about it, we started with our diets, we were really aware through social media through the local newspapers etc about conventional horticulture and food systems and we learned about conventional ag and the terrors of glyphosate and horrors of conventional farming and chickens and pigs, so we kind of had the epiphany, that we really needed to really make a change, if we wanted to improve our health and wellbeing, how we interacted without environment and how we supported our food systems was the place to start! So we made a gradual change to eating organically and an immediate shift to eating cruelty free! That was a big kind of start for us in terms of where we are now… it was a bit of a struggle initially because organic food is not cheap. We were mindful of the financial implications of that choice, we ate organically when we could. We weren’t close to any markets, apart from Farmer’s Market in town on Saturday morning, but we were able to source organic products and stuff from a store in town and from the supermarket and from the Farmer’s market and it was all good!  We started noticing some heath benefits in terms of how we were feeling our mental health improved and surely our  physical health would have been improving because we were eating... Support this podcast