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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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Let’s go Walkabout on the Farmy. Our favourite thing!
Take a break. Have a Kit Kat. These were taken just after dawn yesterday. In the space of about an hour. The cats are always waiting on the verandah for their feed. Hey, look at that! Over there! Suckers, says Thing Two. Daisy is eating well, look at her round belly. She loves the Dairy…
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No thank you, my pigs are vegetarians!
Minty wants to show you her new friend. She is an old friend to us but new to Minty. Wait, stay right there my new friend is around here somewhere. Now where did my friend go? I know I have one. Mama said not to wander too far. But.. is she over there? Here she…
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I Scream you Scream we all Scream for Icecream
Two days ago, on one of those tremendously hot days, Daisy launched herself into the milking parlour. She always pours through the door at speed, she has never and will never be a gentle giant of a cow. The moment she hears the bell she takes two steps backwards to accomodate the opening half barn…
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I never thought it would happen to me
Buoyant with the notion that it was going to get cooler yesterday, I spent the late morning tackling some of the jobs I had been ‘leaving ’til after’. I heaved over water troughs and scrubbed the green out of them, refilling them with clear cold water and a little cider vinegar. I got the tractor…
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Bees in the Heat
Kind of a spooky dawn this morning. The haze has created this effect I suppose. The only green in our landscape is the genetically modified crops but even they are beginning to curl up in the heat of the day. When bees encounter very high temperatures they use a number of systems to cool the…
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Bees in the Heat
Kind of a spooky dawn this morning. The haze has created this effect I suppose. The only green in our landscape is the genetically modified crops but even they are beginning to curl up in the heat of the day. When bees encounter very high temperatures they use a number of systems to cool the…
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