Old 99 Farm, week of Sept 21, fall solstice

We’re having seaonally warm weather still, and crops are doing fine. Greenhouse tomatoes, grown in the ground, are avoiding the blight that has killed off most outside tomato crops. We have some lovely huge beefsteak types as well as the delicate orange and yellow plume types and cherry clusters too.

Peppers are doing well as are the eggplant. Soon you’ll be buying them from California or Florida again!

Lamb and beef/veal and chicken are still in stock. In a couple weeks will have a large supply of ground beef and beef bones. George the bull is meeting with the butcher tomorrow. I confess to feeling sentimental, Geo was born here, has been the herd patriarch for 5 years. But it is time for a change, for the good of the herd.

Did you see the news about the People’s Climate March in NYC? 310 000 people, including some I know from here. Click to http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/21/3570150/peoples-climate-march/ I sure hope the global leaders get the message. A new study on population trends has us on trajectory to peak at 11B, not 9B as per the scientific consensus in recent years. That is terrible, climate/eco collapse + population peak = bad news.

On a saner note, do you remember Jane Jacobs, the noted author, urbanologist, thinker, iconoclast? I met an old acquaintance this weekend, who knew her personally and did several interviews with her. Her is a quote from the transcript of one session. You can read it all at http://donalexander.ca/2014/03/25/jane-jacobs-urban-wisdom/#more-150

Another thing that I think is interesting is; look, I started with just the streets and neighborhoods. The smallest, most immediate things– and the parks– that you could in a city. That opened up to me puzzles that I had to pursue about the economy of cities as a whole.
That opened up puzzles to me that I had to pursue about how this behavior of cities affected the world outside it– outside cities– and how cities affected each other– with their replacements of imports, and with their new kinds of exports, and with their demands for imports, and so on. And the result of that was Cities and the Wealth of Nations. And that was taking in the world of cities and non-cities. It was bigger still.
The Nature of Economies is about the whole universe. But it all started with the streets and the parks.

Healthy eating,
(stay healthy so you can stay out of hospitals where superbugs hang out!)

Ian and Camelia