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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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  • POHUTUKAWA

    POHUTUKAWA

    Walks in Wellington, always take you through under or around the Pohutukawa trees. They are everywhere and flowering profusely. 

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  • FROM SUNRISE TO SUNRISE

    FROM SUNRISE TO SUNRISE

    Traveling around the curve of the earth.  And now I am here – home again.  

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  • REPLENISH

    Replenish is a delicious word. It brings to my mind the drinking of tall glasses of clear water then imagining the cells of my body absorbing the fluid and plumping up, all fat and smooth and shiny and replenished.

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  • AWAY AWAY

    AWAY AWAY

    I fly out to LA today. Usually I leave the midwest 24 hours ahead of my international flight (that leaves from LAX) – I missed a flight to New Zealand once due to a weather hold up in Chicago – never again – now I leave here the day before and wait over on the West…

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  • OLD BARN

    OLD BARN

    Imagine building a barn like this.  It must have been an enormous undertaking.  I am not sure how old the West Barn is  – definitely older than the cottage that stands beside it, but it will be shelter for the cows this winter – though they are fed in the fields and cows stand about wherever…

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  • GET READY

    GET READY

    Yesterday was calm and though cold with little sun the animals and I chalked it up as a good day.  We have had so much wind lately that when it is still it feels both ominous and charmed all at once. 

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