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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
My farms are organic and regenerative and full of stories. I have been writing here about environmentally sustainable farming and food and travel since 2011.
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GOING GREEN
Slowly but steadily, I am getting all the pigs into their Pig Pastures with all the good green feed.
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GOODBYE GREECE
As my body and my mind and my words softly converged to make sense of my new love: the Greek Islands, I paid the ferry man and was slowly inexorably towed away.
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ISLAND CAFE
The island of Telendos was totally silent. No cars. No scooters. No boatloads of tourists. No hustle or bustle. There were places waiting for the tourists but the morning we were there it was deeply quiet. We walked from one end of the settlement to the other encountering nothing but fishing boats and the distant…
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JUST PICTURES: KALYMNOS, GREECE.
Pothia. Vechy Grande Grotta. Below is me deep inside the cave ready to shoot Jack climbing an incredibly hard climb called DNA. Just climbing straight up the steep loose rocky hillside then through the cave to find the best angle was climbing enough for me yesterday. Jack rock climbing in the Grande Grotta. Perfect. Today…
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