The Weblog
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.
You can send me questions too, which if they are of a general nature, I can post to this Old99 blog.
Old 99 Farm, week of Feb 12 2017
We had a misfortunate event last week, the upright freezer failed; I found it on Friday with most of the poultry semithawed with some still mostly frozen. I know people think you can’t refreeze meats but these birds fine. I have lowered the price by about half for several turkeys geese and ducks and about 15 stew hens.
The root cellar is doing a good job keeping the potatoes and carrots firm and minimal sprouting only on carrots.
We have 5 lambs in the freezer, ranging from 35 to 50lb of meat each. Also still lots of pork and chicken. Eggs are in good supply.
Do any of you remember reading books on spiritual teachings, buddhism and peace activism by Joanna Macy? She’s still going strong at 87, coming out of retirement to engage people on climate disruption. Here’s an interview with her. I clipped some key ideas for you:
“Given how things were when we spoke in the summer of 2014, it’s difficult to believe it is this much worse in such a short time, yet here we are. From your perspective, how has this not caused more people to wake up and take a stand?”
" So the weakening of the mind, through the reasons I’ve given, and the culture bred on competition, command and control, power over…"
“have bled people of the nerve to challenge the absurdity or criminality of the larger systems. This makes it very easy for people to allow themselves to be lied to and to be bought. There is the fright induced by finding yourself essentially alone.”
“When people find that they can, and want to, feel and know and tell what is happening to our world, that is so much sweeter and [more] liberating than the opposite. When people get integrated and find how good it feels, then they really want that more than the narcotic of ignorance and delusion, as painful as it is.”
“It’s hard to wake up alone now. It’s scary to see even what is going on. But there is almost no limit, I’ve come to believe, to what we can do with the love and support of each other. There is almost no limit to what we can do for the sake of each other. "
“So it’ll be different for different individuals. But I think we should not make a move to do things alone. Find others. Even if it’s one other person to begin with. Then others will come. Because everybody is lonely. And everybody is ready to find what they most want. And if it means that we have to be in such danger for us to find out how much we need each other, then let it be that.”
Healthy eating
Ian and Cami