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Old 99 Farm Week of Sept 8 2013
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Monday and 21dC, a lovely day. Going to get to 32 tomorrow and below 10 by weekend.
Lots of vegetables. Have you had your kale today?
These ducklings take to water with no hesitation, as I found when I put a wading pool with ramp in their area.
I want to show everyone how the roasting chickens, White Rocks, are liking their freedom on pasture in the new moveable sled shelter. 
This is a snap of the lovely kebabs we bbq’d recently, made all from O 99 produce: eggplants, peppers, onions and lamb.
Thoughts for the week, this time from Howard Kunstler, reposted at peakprosperity.org.
Ours has been an age of producing ersatz substitutes for just about everything. We call the housing subdivisions slapped up by the production builders “communities” when they are just cartoon simulacrums of a community. The houses within them are called “homes” in order to confer emotional allegiance that they have not earned by being things worthy of our affection in places worth caring about.
The manufactured products we call “food” are visibly poisoning the public in epidemics of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. And the manner in which this “food” is dispensed to solitary “consumers” — from drive-in-windows, microwave ovens, and convenience store racks — has drained all nurturing social ceremony from the act of eating as surely as it has drained out all the nutrition.
Having scores of “friends” on Facebook is not about personal association but is rather a marketing racket for a company set up to be an advertising enterprise.
Computer graphic wizardry has only damaged our ability to tell meaningful stories in the dramatic arts media and reduced it to sadistic spectacle. Personal computers, now including phones and tablets, prey on our genetic weakness for novelty and rob us of our waking hours when we might be doing more satisfying things than email.
Where public affairs are concerned, Federal Reserve interventions, pervasive accounting fraud, and computer-derived market manipulations are not an adequate substitute for a real economy of volitional transactions based on purposeful activity. And so on. The list of bad bargains is very long.
He has a way of putting things in perspective that provides much food for thought. Me, I just provide food for the tummy!
Healthy eating,
Ian and Camelia