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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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Eat Not Your Bed
The wind is howling and it is pouring with rain outside as I sit down for my early morning journal. It has been an Easterly – swinging from the Nor/east for days now and this is a cold wind. Worse it blows straight into the farrowing pen. So I shut Mollys big East door last…
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Rush rush
I am hurrying this morning as I have to be off the property at seven. So I am going to move swiftly through the chores. I have been a bit dawdly lately. Molly is still taking her time with her piglets and I am not milking so I am enjoying this slow start to the summer. And yesterday…
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The re-turn of the worm
I rent these fields from Our John’s uncle. And when I first took them over they had been cropped in corn or beans or wheat for at least fifty or sixty years. Since the 70’s chemicals have taken over as the main source of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides ( the suffix cide means to kill so you get…
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Tane Mahuta
You will remember that Tane has been having bad back problems and whether you walk on two legs or four having back and hip problems makes your life difficult to say the least. He had a miserable winter. Most of the winter he rested, he did not walk far, standing, swinging his back legs in…
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The Loaves and the Fishes
Woke up to pouring rain this morning with its company the thunder and lightening. Yesterday we had 78f/25c and high winds which would have warmed the earth up. It certainly warmed me up! So the rain will encourage some grass growth. And I need that grass to grow. Because my hay pile is very low now.…
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