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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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New Lambs: Meet Minty, Meadow and The Murphy
I posted your page yesterday morning then pulled a sweatshirt over my nightie with yoga pants underneath, dragged on my gumboots and popped out to check Mama again before beginning the mornings work. I walked into bedlam. There were four lambs born. Two flat out on the straw and not moving and two struggling…
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A wee wander on the farmy. We won’t go far though.
Daisy has had quite enough of all the fuss about Mama and would like to remind us that she is pregnant too and due in a little over a month. The wind makes her tired. Even though she is a big girl. The wind was so wild yesterday that the guineas and the cats hung…
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How to make organic fertiliser from worm casings.
In the basement I have two worm farms. One is a conventional vertical worm farm that has trays that you layer upwards. I feed the worms a mixture of brown feed and green feed. The brown includes egg cartons, cardboard, coffee grounds, tea leaves, shredded paper, egg shells, dead leaves and in this case the…
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Food I can eat with my eyes!
Do you guys deliver? It is Saturday, the day I usually share some new (to me) blogs with you all. However this week I succumbed to PRETTY! and pretty SIMPLE. So I am being naughty and I have swiped some food pictures to show you. I am not sure if this is OK so don’t…
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Kupa finds his voice
Yesterday morning I did half the chores then drove in the cooking oil car to the village, picked up my Mother-in-Law (The Matriarch) and drove her to a bigger town to catch the bus to Chicago for the weekend at 7.30am. Before I left I fed everyone who needed feeding and at the very last…
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