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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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Talking about babies –
WE had another wicked frost yesterday morning. The ground was crunchy as I trudged to and fro in my gumboots and clown suit feeding animals and getting ready for the milking. We still managed to pick kale, lettuce and radishes for lunch but the pickin’s are getting slim! Mia has been let in with the…
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It is a very Foolish thing…
… to put the title of the day’s Weblog Post in the little box before I have looked closely at the images collected in the camera. I was feeling disappointed in my pictures of the last few days. They had been dreary and i was expecting another set of dull shots. I was all set…
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A little Surprise, then Another one…
This certainly is a surprised chook but no this is not the surprise – This is the surprise! But in a way no surprise at all. The Matriarch walked into a wild scene at the hairdressers yesterday, they were all excited because a stray kitten had wandered into the salon, walked down the back…
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Sometimes we all need to have a good think.
Yesterday I awoke to 22F, this morning it is 40F. But summer is over. That life’s force we call Mother Nature is more powerful that any goverment, any warlike clan. Any law, any silly little wish. Any roof and any plan. When they say the Force of Nature they mean the ultimate force. She is the…
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Everything but the Earwigs – Making Wine on the Farmy.
Oh and we tried to take out the spiders too. No spiders were harmed in this post -or photographed – so it is safe to proceed. Yesterday was cold all day. One of those cold days that has a proper serious chill carried by a mean little wind aimed at that one spot of bare…
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