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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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LATEST POSTS


  • PERSONALLY

    One of the questions I received before I left for Christmas was how do I get so much done. Blogging almost every day and studying and farming and running a home.

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  • HIDING IN A BUSH

    HIDING IN A BUSH

    We have windy wet weather today. Still in the Hawkes Bay winter, I come from Hawkes Bay in New Zealand and our Illinois weather is so much like home that I am wondering how they cope with this infernal mud!

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  • CHUBBY CHOPS

    CHUBBY CHOPS

    I often find things when I examine images in the morning as I prepare them for publication. I think that is a jacket? On the post behind the peacock. I know exactly where my one work jacket is so it must be the woodcutters!

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  • SCRIBBLE

    The day before yesterday I was in Chicago consulting with a young woman about a play she is producing for February.

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  • A QUESTION FOR YOU

    So, I am writing a lesson plan this week for my course in teaching English as a Second Language. I have a question for you.

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  • UNSIGHTLY ANGLE

    UNSIGHTLY ANGLE

    Yesterday we received over an inch of rain. Oh. Happy New Year! In America! Sorry, keep forgetting things like that. The social niceties! Anyway we got over an inch -there is so much water in the ground and so little evaporation at this time of year.

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