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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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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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Being Water Boy with a Camera
You may have noticed that most of my images this week have been in the evening. My main work is done in the morning and in the afternoon. It is the evening shift that I do the waters. And it is in the evening that the temperatures drop enough for the animals to move and…
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Walkabout on the hot, hot sleepy farmy
Ok, back to business! I rearranged animals the other day. Mia, Meadow and The Murphy are in The Daisy Paddock with the big gate closed so they have very little shade in the morning. I made them a beer tent. They seem more than happy with it. Their shade gets bigger as the sun…
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Hairy MacLairy gets some Piggy Kisses
Hairy MacLairy the ram makes some unusual friendships. But this must be the strangest of them so far. Sheila were you over there kissing that ram? No Miss C is was not me. It was Charlotte. She’s smelly can I bite her? I only want to kiss you Miss C. Why don’t you come closer…
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