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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.
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Old 99 Farm Week of Aug 25 2013
This post expired on August 27, 2023.
Tues am, hot and humid, garden got 9/10ths inch of rain so weeding is easy now!
Had a wonderful bbq here with the folks from the Flamborough Fur and Feather Fanciers club, poultry lovers. We did kabobs with O99 lamb, peppers, eggplant and onion. Sunday was lovely weather too. Thanks to Camelia, we were ready when people arrived!
Tomatoes and eggplants, strawberries and peppers. Plus usual greens, beans, potatoes, squash.
Lamb is in. If you want to try some O99 lamb chops or minced lamb, now is your chance. I will have 10 more animals going to butcher in the next couple months.
Roasting chickens are looking very happy on the pasture in their new moveable shelter. You have to go see to believe the way they scamper around. That field was planted in wheat last fall, harvested a month ago, so there’s lots of wheat grains on the ground for them to scratch, in addition to the organic mixed grain ration they get.
See you thurs,
Healthy eating,
Ian
PS Nicole Foss emailed me that she will be in the area at end of September. She is a well informed international known speaker on living in the post-carbon era, (which we are already well into). Drop me a note if you are interested in being part of a private gathering with Nicole here at the farm, probably a three hour evening roundtable.