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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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Do what you can –
– because sometimes it is going to rain on your life and then you can only do what you can. And sometimes it is Cold hard rain. And sometimes it is on the day you had pegged to cut hay. And that is what we had yesterday. Wet, cold, hard rain. But the work went…
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I care what you think
You know how people say _(and I hear this all the time) Oh! (whoosh of breath) “I don’t care what people think! I just am what I am – etc and etc – take it or leave it, rinse and repeat.. blah, blah, blah”. I tilt my head and look carefully when I hear this. Bravado is…
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Camera House changes hands
Do you want to know how tall Sheila my beautiful big fat pig is? Molly got to have Camera House yesterday afternoon. I am almost 5’8″, and Sheila comes up past my hip. That tall. Below is Boo – Feigning tiredness to get more attention. Watched carefully by the dis-approving masses – as you can imagine. Though they…
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But where will the Angels Sit?
Do you ever wonder where the angels sit? When people come to visit with their angels. The door banging twice. Girl. Angel. Because, really, there is only so much room in my little house. Angels take up as much room as a person though a lot less air. Even though an angel can change the atmosphere…
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Kitchen Mama
Yesterday our two girls Molly and Whitney were the 1940’s Kitchen Mamas. They are travelling together, have known each other since kindergarten, though they go to different colleges now and like all old and fast friends are a perfect team. And by the end of the day after making bread, muesli cookies, ice cream, quiches for…
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