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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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IN OLD EN ZED
Things are coming along nicely. I can’t tell you how grateful I am to be able to travel to my family. And how lucky I am to have a family to travel to.
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ALMOST GONE
Last night I delivered the last of the animals I am selling and so today I can begin to sort my travel out. It has been a long and fraught week but I am in the home stretch. I have been missing you so.
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SO HERE IS THE THING
My family at home in New Zealand are having some troubles so I am selling cows and pigs as fast as I can so I can fly home next week.
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INTERMITTENT
My posts will be intermittent for a wee while. Events beyond my control will be claiming my loving attention elsewhere.
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PINCH AND A PUNCH
AS kids, a Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month brought great and terrible delight. Little girls shrieking, giddy with release, naughtiness, our innate cruelty acceptable for just this moment, at being allowed to pinch and punch and “NO RETURNS” just this once. Hard. No-one ever does a pinch and a punch…
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SHIFTING
To move a mob of pigs takes a lot of preparation. (Unlike a break-out that takes no preparation at all). The Six had finished their smaller sunflower field and were ready to take on the big one. I had been holding off while the biggest and latest sunflower field reached maturity. I want these pigs…
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