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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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WHAT A DAY
I am trying to get up even earlier nowadays to get the milking done before I go to work. And now I have been to work and it is sale day.
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PHOTO UNTOUCHED
Always when I take a photo of a calf – Mum will stride across to check I have not touched him.
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WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM
While I go through this ongoing episode with Aunty Del ( who is still so weak ) I literally stand in the kitchen to shovel a little food into my mouth at the appropriate intervals. But none of it sticks. My old jeans are all comfortable now. Lucky I did not cut them up for…
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SHIFT YOURSELF
I opened up the center of the barn for Molly and her piglets to get out of this incessant wind and rain. The wind is so strong it reaches right into the barn on her side.
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CHEWING YOUR CUD
Night chores are really late evening chores but night chores is easier to say. And during last evenings night chores I separated Tia and Del. Tia goes into a big pen of her own in case she calves in the night. ( Wouldn’t that be nice – as easily said as done). Del has the…
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