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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Gerlinde
Good morning everyone. As I am once more across the country- here is my first guest from The Fellowship: Gerlinde. We are beginning our international small farm tour in Germany. She writes, cooks and travels over at her blog The Sunny Cove. I am tickled to be asked to post here, as The Kitchengarden has become…
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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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