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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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Shift your focus
For a few minutes I would like you to think like a little balloon and I will trail you along on my walk through London yesterday, with old friends. We began in Angel (an area I was very familiar with) and through St John – an area I am not familiar with at all and into…
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Good morning – LONDON
London. Flashing past my eyes. There are SO MANY people here, throngs, crowds, many, many different languages, different modes of dress, different foods and and so much sound and light and colour. I am SO happy to be back in the big city. I feel invigorated by this huge collection of peoples. Thank you so…
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Letter from a Pet Zoo in Israel
Pet Zoo Kibbutz Shiller – The Bird’s Eye View. Hello everybody! My name is Tarnegolita, and I am your fancy-feathered hostess for today in this guest post on Cecilia’s blog. I will graciously guide you through your virtual visit to my home, a small private pet zoo in a kibbutz in central Israel. This is Pet…
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Letter from the Outer Hebrides
Introducing Jonathon. He and Denise live in the Outer Hebrides. In their own words: (nicked from their blog). We live and work from our home at the southern tip of the Isle of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides – an archipelego at the Atlantic edge of Scotland. We live in an 18thC high-walled kitchen…
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Guest Post – the old and new
A Postcard from England, Old and New… My grandfather, Fred Brackenbury, came from a long line of prize-winning English shepherds. ‘My father was a shepherd’, he said once. ‘And his father. And mebbe his father…’. Here is Fred, eighty years ago, with some of his charges, and one of his faithful collies! Fred won many…
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Goodbye Pictures
Lots of them! First the inhabitants in and around the Home Barn. Egoli trying to stop Geraldine from pecking at his haunches. That is one mean peahen when she wants to be. Tima and Tane. I have just realised I forgot to shut their gate to the inside of the barn so I bet they…
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