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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 June 29 2014


Adding basil and eggplant this week.
Enough orders for beef came in that I can take an animal to the butcher this week.

This Saturday I am hosting a farm tour sponsored by the Ecological Farmers of Ontario, from 10 to 2. Theme: Garden Farming for a Bleak Post-carbon Future. I will be addressing the reasons why the food system we now rely on cannot hold fast and what small farms and urban backyards can do for their own needs as we get used to climate upset, energy scarcity and economic hardships like increasing unemployment, lower wages, food inflation. $10 each or $20/family to EFAO admission. https://efao.ca/upcoming-events/

Climate change?
“The selfish minority will over-exploit and ruin things for the future,” he told ThinkProgress. “So some kind of regulation is really essential — you can’t just leave things to the free market and hope that it will work out.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/26/3453548/cooperating-with-future-climate-change-study/

Simply cooperating in everyday life is hard enough, but cooperating with future generations is a whole other challenge — and one that makes addressing climate change so difficult.

Why people are willing, or unwilling, to make present day sacrifices for future generations is the topic of a new study called “Cooperating With The Future” from researchers at Harvard and Yale. Published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the study looks at how people weigh decisions that are dependent on the continued help of subsequent generations, such as climate change and resource management.

Check the link, and while you’re at it, read the article showing in 7 charts how climate change will harm the (US) economy.