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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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caught red-handed, I mean red lipped – with her hand, I mean head in..
Sheila got out while I was moving the chicks into their Ark. Ton went into high alert. The first I saw she was munching the dregs of the dropped apples under the Apple Pie Apple tree. As laid back and nonchalant as you please. Lumbering about. Then when I returned with a bucket of feed…
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The starlings have come
When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations. They fill…
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How to train your dog in Five minutes, Five times a Day.
I was not trained to train dogs. But my dogs are all very well trained in the basics. Many people will look at them work and say Who trained your dogs? Me. I say, a little surprised. Don’t you train your dog? You can you know. It is easy. I just know a little and…
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Fly Away Home
Though his multi coloured tail is almost gone, The Duke of Kupa is still a gorgeous bird. The tail feathers I am finding now are shorter and fluffier. The piglets are still exploring their new boundaries and threes times yesterday Ton was sent out to “See the Piggies” . This is his command to find…
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Controlled Break Out
There are many grandparents, especially grandmothers, who spend a good deal of their time bringing up their grandchildren. Our darling Marie in Rhode Island is one such grandmother though she has Two toddlers. The Matriarch is another. However energetic she is The Matriarch is not a young grandmother and will often bring her grandson out…
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