The Weblog
This page contains news, event information, and other items added by Ian and Adam, the resident farmers at Old 99. We send out a message every week, but most are set with a delete date about two weeks later. I archive some of the posts if they have content other than weekly availability of produce and meat.
You can send me questions too, which if they are of a general nature, I can post to this Old99 blog.
Old 99 Farm, week of Mar 3rd, 2013
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I’m adding a few greens back on the list, chard, onions, kale, in addition to the mizuna.
Lots of goose eggs, try a few, priced to be the same as chicken eggs per gram. I’m offering a dollar off the regular price for chicken eggs this week.
A regular member has offered to make available Norpro kitchen utensils at wholesale prices. You can go to the website, browse the categories, (lots) and prepare a list. In a couple of weeks we’ll see how large the order is, combined. Here’s the page for the meat grinder/pasta maker: http://www.norpro.com/store/products/grindermincerpasta-maker-includes-sausage-funnel-attachment
Did you read the excerpts on climate upset last week? Are you a climate denier or a climate “hawk”? In either case you might like to try this on for size: what stage, of the classic stages of grief model, are you at? What have you come through? What’s next?
The five stages of grief describes “a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss.” As Wikipedia puts it:
The great New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert perhaps best summed up this form of denial. Her three-part series, “The Climate of Man,” which became the terrific book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, famously ends:
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.
Read more at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/01/1644511/for-climate-hawks-the-five-stages-of-grief-are-reversed/