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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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You write the captions today: A Farmy Fellowship Day.
I have to drive as fast as I can to town and catch the train to the Big City. But first I have to feed or visit all the animals then clean up and put some city clothes on my body. And lipstick, I need to find my lipstick! So my lips do not stick…
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The Naughty Boo’s Chair
Look at this dog with his mouth full of melted butter. Like butter would not melt. In his big mouth. Now look at the destruction. I shall have to add sunglasses to my shopping list. And he has begun to pick himself sweetcorn too. He leaps at the stalks, grabs the cob of corn and…
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And then the apples began –
Yesterday just as I was getting into the swing of freezing corn on the cob, with the sweetcorn garden relish bubbling away, and the bread rising on the racks above the stove where a tray of sweetcorn kernels were drying, my neighbour popped over with a very welcome bag of tiny cucumbers for pickling (knowing…
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How to cook and preserve sweetcorn
You know I have piles of sweetcorn. Actually a patch about 200 feet long (about 60 metres) and 8 rows wide. I think that should do us. As you know I feed a fair bit of fresh sweetcorn and all the stalks to the cows, sheep, pigs and chickens but I still have plenty to…
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Trashy novels and the Big Fat Chickens Plan
In between the weeding and feeding and lifting and pulling. And cooing and catching and patting. And watering and weeding and pruning and picking and shucking and bagging. I read a trashy novel. The whole thing. It is true I am a fast reader. I am not going to tell you the name of the…
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