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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Morning Walk through the weeds down the back.
Early this morning I took you all to walk the fences with me. I do this walk every morning and evening for the dogs toilet time. This is the wild area, where the weeds and all that wild grass is allowed to grow. I even throw seed gathered from the garden down there to encourage…
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Flowers in my garden that the bees love the most
Bees need flowers all summer long. Millions of them. So we need to plant flowers we know will flower in early spring, right through summer and as late in the fall as possible. The wonderful thing about growing flowers for bees is that it seems that the ones they love the most are the ones…
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Farmers Market and Shocking Sheep.
I will let these images speak for themselves. These pictures were taken at the Evanston Farmers Market. The vegetables were from a stall called Henry’s Farm. If you have a farmers market close by you that has food like this then you are SO LUCKY. Gorgeous! Well I was working away and I could hear…
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Hi Honey I’m Home.
Well, we looked inside all the hives and there has not been a huge escalation in much of anything. I would say things are just puttering along slowly. Much slower this year due to those two hives swarming at the beginning of the month and all that rain in the spring. A couple of…
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