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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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WIDE AWAKE
It has been a long few days- though I have forgotten as much as I remember.
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ONE MORE SLEEP
A little more rain. A little more packing (though travelling with only hand luggage is all about the UN-Packing). Lots of getting the farm ready to leave for a week.
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HEAT and FIRE
Yesterday a man who I will not name because he is a local mowed the ditches ghen set fire to them then left the area. Of course it roared up in the wind and shot out in all directions burning up dry, dry grass and if John had not made a fire break at our…
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HEAT STROKE
Lucy the newborn Angus calf went down with heatstroke yesterday evening and I had to go in and drag her out through the little milking calf door without her mother killing me. If I had left her in there she would have died on the spot.
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