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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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VET DAY
The vet comes today to perform two procedures on two calves. Firstly Aunty Del’s Bobette needs her horns removed and another calf needs to be castrated (this was the calf who only had one testicle dropped last time we tried so we had to wait). I have been putting both these procedures off until it…
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IN SCHOOL
I am at the school in Houston TX. Through the gates. Signed in. And offline. No photographs yet as I am on a borrowed school laptop. There is a security protocol to me getting my own computer or phone online here. And downloading images onto another computer is fraught with difficulty so no photos yet.…
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BLEACHED, BEACHED
The last of the warm days is upon us. Though todays will be a cloudy warmth. After this we go down to more seasonal temperatures for the forseeable future (forseeable future being the 10 days of estimates the weather site gives us). Waking up to a 51F/10C morning full of birdsong, in February, is pretty rare.…
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