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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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Lemon Honey Cheesecake with a Twist of Mint and a milking machine.
Merry Christmas, John said as he carried two huge boxes through the kitchen door. I checked the calender, yes, still January. The milking machine had arrived. Much excitement. If Daisy the cow could have seen us staring at the bewildering collection of bits and pieces with knobs and switches, all gleaming and solid looking, she…
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Maybe the coyotes just want to be friends. Making music for us in the night.
I went to bed last night after loading my pictures for this morning. But I had no words in my head. I looked at the writing book that sits beside the bed, it’s pen at the ready, then reached past it for the reading book instead. I remember as a kid my Mother asking my…
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Daisy loves lemons, she won’t get the scurvy
I have piles of beautiful lemons. So I decided to make the lemon cheese (lemon curd). This is how Mum’s recipe, scribbled down in 1981 read. It is certainly spotty and dog eared and up for interpretation. juice of 8 lemons sugar to taste 1 oz butter 1 tblsp cornflour 2 eggs, whipped Make in…
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He got Cold Feet on The Farmy.
Yesterday we had glorious sunshine and not a breath of wind. This morning sitting in my high up studio, the sky still black all I can hear is wind. One of the challenges I have set myself, for these pages, was that all the images, every day, were to be from the farmy, our gardens…
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Sweet cold farmy day.. we love the farmy days.
Snow. Light Powdery snow. We had another snowy day yesterday. But it is still too dark outside for me to see what happened in the night. We have no street lights in the country so there is no way of knowing without going out. Some farms have enormous lights that light the whole yard…
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