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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 May 10 2015


What a heat spell over the weekend! But we got the potatoes and leeks planted, watered and mulched, and all the garden beds tilled ready to plant the many transplants we’ve been nurturing along since February.

Hope you are up for greens. PULEEZ, make it a trip this week, they are at their finest now.

Rhubarb is lush too, I’ve cut the price in half from $4/500g to $5/kg, half the cost at fortinos and it’s local, fresh picked and delicious.

First asparagus, sorrel and chives are now ready to harvest. I better get right out here and pick that asparagus cuz it’s necessary to pick daily or more often.

I suggest you surf over to Resilience.org to get some inspiration and understanding of a different approach to farming can make a huge difference in our climate disruption outlook.

“But slowing down emissions or waiting for fixes is simply not enough. There is another way. How Can Regenerative Organic Farming Reverse Climate Change?

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, we had about 280 parts per million (PPM) of carbon and other GHGs in the atmosphere. We are currently at 400 PPM. Today we have imbalance: a vast excess of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere causing the greenhouse effect, which changes our environment in the form of extreme weather, rising sea levels, and desertification. Even if we reduce our emissions to zero, this excess amount of carbon will continue to loom in the atmosphere over us, and the greenhouse effect and climate change will continue. It is not enough to reduce, mitigate, adapt—whichever term you choose. The excess carbon in the atmosphere must be sequestered through regenerative agriculture in order to bring GHG levels down to 350 PPM in the near-term, and hopefully even lower with time.

How?

I’ll get right to the point. A global shift to regenerative organic agriculture can reverse climate change. In fact, regenerative organic agriculture is the only viable option available to us and is readily achievable."

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami