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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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How to link a picture to a URL
Effectively turning an image into a button. Attach a link to a picture! On WordPress and on Substack. For the folks who, like me, did not know this. Here are the instructions for WordPress: 1. Load the image into your page. 2. Firmly click on the image for the drop down menu. (Here is where…
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I lose Sleep so I can a Read
You too!? Hah! We are a pair. 😂 I only have time to read at night. So if it is a good book – I am losing sleep. What’s our next read? What did you just finish? If it is good don’t forget to drop the title into our very own Library! Chicks are here!…
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Chicks arrive Today
And I was worried about it being too hot! It being August and all. The traveling chicks might be too cold! These chicks will be grown for R’s freezer. Her families will be well fed this winter. After chores today I am going over to a friends pear tree. He has lots of windfalls arriving…
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Turkeys are not Clever
The PopPops are officially released into the big field. And, so far, they have not escaped. And the turkeys have not escaped either! Though I was not trying to keep the turkeys in. I covered the lower half of the big green gates in chicken wire so the PopPops could not use the gates as…
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The Mad Kings Garden
Yesterday R and I put a panel across the mad kings broken garden gate and let the Charlottes in to the mad kings garden to clean up. Neglected vegetable gardens are gold for pigs! The Mad Kings garden had gotten totally out of control but for some reason him indoors did not want anyone else…
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Sweetcorn, pumpkins, tomatoes, apples and wild plums.
Now is the time to begin gathering pig food from my own farm. As the crops ripen. Nothing is wasted. Waste has no place in a sustainable farm system. The sweetcorn has gone past the sweet stage so now I begin to chop the stalks (complete with corn) and throw the whole lot over the…
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