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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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Think Like a Cow
OR: How to load a single cow into a stock trailer. I have been mulling this post over for a few weeks now. Thinking like a cow. Because often when we have to move an animal somewhere strange, (like into a stock trailer) or across dangerous terrain (like concrete covered in a sheet of ice, or…
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What do you think?
The eggs were put into the incubator on Sunday at lunchtime. Here they are in front of the candling torch four days later. Now this is way too early of course and the wrong way around. One should candle the egg from the large end where the chick actually grows. Like this. (below) They…
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Thick Ice
As you know the day before yesterday it was warm and much of the snow began to melt, then in the night the temperatures dropped and a cold Northerly wind came up and by yesterday morning the slushy snowy covering on the ground had been turned to heavy ice. Not a crust of ice. Polished hard packed…
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A Field Trip
On Saturday I took myself for a field trip to visit a friend of mine who has a wee farm up on the ridge a few miles from here. Look who lives out the back of her house. Because of the slight elevation and the snow the images seem to sparkle. Her neighbours farm. The light…
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