Week of 3 Oct 2021

As we begin October and Thanksgiving is just around the corner we would like to remind you that it’s fun to cook something different for family dinners rather than turkey all the time. Have you tried our pastured pork roasts yet? We have picnic shoulder and fresh leg roasts available. We also have plenty of half chickens for roasting as well.
Always a good selection of beef, like stewing meat, ground, steaks, plenty of bones for broth and more!
Some of the veggies available this week include health kick salad, arugula, paste tomatoes (good for sauce or cooking dinners), collards, spinach, chard, turnips, potatoes, carrots to name a few so be sure to check the market listing.

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.
Market times are Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 6pm.

Thank you everyone, see you all again this week!

Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Week of Sept. 26 2021

As summer winds down and the days begin to get shorter we will have a cider pressing day. Keep watch for the date and you can see an old fashioned cider pressing.
Plenty of veggies available this week such as carrots, beets, golden turnips, purple top turnips, Swiss chard, collard greens, spinach, lettuces lettuces mixed greens, melons and so much more. Be sure to see the market listing for featured products too!

Plenty of eggs so don’t be shy to order extra for fall and winter baking.
Market times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday. Please place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.

week of sept 19 2021

We had a wonderful Equinox celebration on Saturday last. Great weather, lots of help getting set up from friends and family. The resource people for Climate Action ideas turned out fantastic, really got the conversations buzzing. The pulled pork, coleslaw and tomato salad by Cami and from all O’99 ingredients were eaten with gusto. So was my O’99 icecream! We danced till 10 to the music of The Rewynds.

We have sunflower blooms and sunchoke blossoms for sale. see the listings this week.
Anyone looking for a half pig dressed and wrapped for your freezer? Please give me the heads up. Same for a quarter beef as we have animals ready for the butcher.

With those pastured animals going in why not pick up everything else you need for a meal or your weekly groceries. We have potatoes, turnips, beets, a large variety of greens, lettuces, tomatoes, eggplants, tree fruits and so much more! Be sure to check out the market for all the amazing selections. Don’t forget to order your eggs as well. No need to go to the grocery store when the farm market is a one stop shop!

Remember to place you orders before 7am Thursdays. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.
Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday.

Be well,
Nick & Angela
Iam & Cami

Old 99 Farm, week of Sept 12

What a weekend we have coming up for all our wonderful customers! See below for details about the Old 99 Farm Equinox Celebration.

We have a good selection of veggies available this week along with a few melons and some of those juicy Asian pears. Plenty of tomatoes are available now for canning – Amish paste and Rio grandé (large version of a roma). Health Kick Salad greens, grand rapids lettuce, red potatoes, white potatoes, purple potatoes (yes, purple!), Swiss chard, collard greens, tropeana onions, egg plant, mint, fennel tops and so much more!

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.
Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday.

Reminder all O’99 patrons, this weekend is our equinox celebration. Sign up at https://old99farmequinoxcelebration.eventbrite.ca
Or if you’d rather, leave a message at 905 537 0163 with your name and how many coming with you.
We have the climate action treasure hunt farmtour scheduled for 2 to 4. Find out about such topics as:
EVs, downsizing/decluttering Retrofitting suburbia, homesteading, recycling e-waste, healthcare, ridesharing/cycling, dundasworks, living offgrid, canning and preserving, no fridge/no A/C living
Still hoping for permaculture, passive home heating, solar backup, heat pumps

Week of Sept 5 2021

Wow, where did the summer go to so quickly!

The end of summer means lots of harvest from the fields and orchard.
Veggies available this week include turnip greens, purple top white turnips, rainbow swiss chard, collard greens, scallions (Bunching onions), Leeks, fuku Komachi turnips, carrots, tropeana onions, purple potatoes, white potatoes, red skinned potatoes, health kick salad blend, grand rapids lettuce and much more!
Asian and European pears are now being picked. Tree ripened and of course organic. Fancy grade blemish free for eating out of the hand and bulk for canning. Watermelons, musk melons (cantaloupe) and many varieties of tomatoes can be ordered online.

Don’t forget about our amazing pastured beef and pork as well as our very popular pastured eggs.

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed. Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday.

Reminder: our Equinox Celebration is two weeks away. I thank all those already signed up via eventbrite, and there is still room for you. We want to celebrate the end of summer, a great harvest, and local climate actions.
We’ve set up a leisurely day starting around 2pm with farm walk discovery.

People with projects to share will be ready to talk to you about how they are helping reduce carbon pollution and more.
We have icecream made here for you at 4 and a talk on current climate situations and how we might be affected. Dinner made from Old99 produce is at 6 and live music by The Rewynds at 7:30 will roll out the celebrations.
Guests are welcome but please register all attendees with a free eventbrite ticket.

Available this week

From the orchard we have asian pears, european pears (eg Bartletts), crab apples, tart pie apples and watermelons.

Finally,
you can get a Climate Emergency sign like this from us for your lawn or window. Suggested $10 for cost.

Thank you everyone!

Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Equinox Celebration Invitation to all on our list

Summer’s End Equinox Celebration and Climate Mobilization

Ian and Cami are hosting friends, customers and relations to celebrate a great harvest and kick off more local climate action in the Dundas valley. Bring your family to enjoy the farm scenery and animals. Find out real actions to reduce the worst of climate disruptions. Our intent is to host a celebration of summer’s end, a bountiful harvest, and local climate initiatives we can all do. Family friendly of course. Register at Eventbrite here. Limited for first 100 people.

The Menu: Saturday Sept 18

2pm to 4pm: arrival for welcome and sharing a marketplace of ideas (see below)
4pm to 6pm: assembly of citizens: to hear the science and grieve the consequences
6pm to 7:30 dinner(bring your own utensils), and drumming
7:30ish to 10ish Celebration. Live music by The Rewynds, a pop rock group with climate connections. Break loose! Dancing and Open Mic
Closing when last dancers leave.

Climate Mobilization Marketplace

We’re arranging groups and individuals to set up kiosks about their ideas for local climate mobilization. Do you have a pet action you’d like to share? This includes activities like food harvesting and preserving, seed saving, treeplanting, downsizing and rightsizing, tiny houses, nature walks, deep renovation of homes, repurposing yards, neighbourhood resilience clubs and block captains, energy/carbon footprint checkups, suburban retrofitting, and etc.

This event will be rain or shine, renting a bigtop tent. We will use eventbrite to keep track of numbers so we don’t go over the covid outdoor gathering limit.

Special Offer: Pick up your non-partisan election sign here announcing ‘Climate Emergency’ for your front window, apartment door, or lawn. $10 at cost, a project by Grant Linney, Climate educator and long time resident of Dundas. #climategrant on Facebook.

Remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed so check your inbox before coming out.
Market times are Thursday and Friday 4pm to 6pm or by special request, text ahead.

Old 99 Farm, week of Aug 29 2021

Summer’s End Equinox Celebration and Climate Mobilization

Old 99 Farm is hosting friends, customers and relations to celebrate a great harvest and kick off to mobilize climate action in the Dundas valley. Bring your family to enjoy the farm scenery and animals. Find out real actions to reduce the worst of climate disruptions. Our intent is to host a celebration of summer’s end, a bountiful harvest, and local climate initiatives we can all do. Family friendly of course. Register at Eventbrite here. Limited for first 100 people.

The Menu: Saturday Sept 18

2pm to 4pm: arrival for welcome and sharing a marketplace of ideas (see below)
4 to 6: assembly of citizens: to hear the science and grieve the consequences
6pm to 7:30 dinner(bring your own utensils), and drumming
7:30 Music by The Rewynds, a pop rock group with climate connections Dancing and Open Mic
Closing when last dancers leave.

Climate Mobilization Marketplace

Groups and individuals will set up kiosks about their ideas for local climate mobilization. This includes activities like food harvesting and preserving, seed saving, treeplanting, downsizing and rightsizing, tiny houses, nature walks, deep renovation of homes, repurposing yards, neighbourhood resilience clubs and block captains, energy/carbon footprint checkups, suburban retrofitting, and etc.
This event will be rain or shine, renting a bigtop tent. We will use eventbrite to keep track of numbers so we don’t go over the covid outdoor gathering limit.

Produce available this week

Veggies available this week include turnip greens, beet greens, beets, purple top white turnips, rainbow swiss chard, collard greens, green cabbage, scallions (Bunching onions), Leeks, fuku Komachi turnips, carrots, tropeana onions just to name a few.
We now have lots of potatoes ready to go. Several different varieties: Purple, white skinned, red skinned, russet.
We have fresh picked peaches! Tree ripened and of course organic. Fancy grade blemish free for eating out of the hand and bulk for canning. Watermelons, musk melons (cantaloupe) and many varieties of tomatoes can be ordered online. The new garlic crop is in. Apples and pears not yet tree-ripened for harvest, but soon we will have them available.

We have prepared Black currant juice (pressure canned) and basil pesto (frozen) and will make on request sauerkraut.

Don’t forget about our amazing pastured beef and pork as well as our very popular pastured eggs.

Its getting time to order your chickens for winter. We will have about 100 birds going in and we can specify halves, whole or parts; as in drumsticks, thighs, boneless breast, . Order ahead, we’ll keep them frozen for you, and give 10% discount to boot, if over $150.

Remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed.
Market times are Thursday and Friday 4pm to 6pm.

Special Offer: Pick up your non-partisan election sign here announcing ‘Climate Emergency’ for your front window, apartment door, or lawn. $10 at cost, a project by Grant Linney, Climate educator and long time resident of Dundas. #climategrant on Facebook.

Old 99 Farm, Week of Aug 22 2021

Summer’s End Equinox Celebration and Climate Mobilization

You can’t have missed the news headlines about the UN’s IPCC Climate Science report last week. How will we know that real action is happening to reduce the worst of climate disruptions? When we see friends, neighbours and relations living their lives differently. How will they know? when they see us living our lives differently. So our intent is to host a celebration of summer’s end, a bountiful harvest, and local climate initiatives we can all do. Family friendly of course.
The Menu: Saturday Sept 18
2pm to 4pm: arrival for welcome and sharing a marketplace of ideas (see below)
4 to 6: assembly of citizens:  to hear the science and grieve the consequences
6pm to 7:30 dinner(bring your own utensils), and drumming
7:30 Music by The Rewynds, a pop rock group with climate connections        Dancing and Open Mic
Closing when last dancers leave.

Climate Mobilization Marketplace

Groups and individuals will offer tabledisplays about their ideas for local climate mobilization. Activities could include food harvesting and preserving, seed saving, treeplanting, downsizing and rightsizing, tiny houses, nature walks, deep renovation of homes, repurposing yards, neighbourhood resilience clubs and block captains, energy/carbon footprint checkups, suburban retrofitting, and etc.
This event will be rain or shine, renting a bigtop tent. We will use eventbrite to keep track of numbers so we don’t go over the covid outdoor gathering limit.

Old 99 Harvest this week

Time to order your freezer chickens, we can specify halves, whole or parts, as in drumsticks, thighs, boneless breast, etc. Order ahead, we’ll keep them frozen for you, and give 10% discount to boot, if over $150.

Veggies available this week include turnip greens, purple top white turnips, rainbow swiss chard, collard greens, green cabbage, scallions (Bunching onions), Leeks, fuku Komachi turnips, carrots, tropeana onions just to name a few.
We have fresh picked peaches! Tree ripened and of course organic. Fancy grade blemish free for eating out of the hand and bulk for canning. Watermelons, musk melons (cantaloupe) and many varieties of tomatoes can be ordered online. The new garlic crop is in. Apples and pears not yet tree-ripened for harvest.

We have prepared Black currant juice (pressure canned) and basil pesto (frozen) and will make on request, sauerkraut.

Don’t forget about our amazing pastured beef and pork as well as our very popular pastured eggs.

Winter CSA, Community Shared Agriculture box plans for 2021/22

This summer we started a ‘CSA’ box of veggies every week for 24 weeks in three sizes. We will be doing the same for the winter season starting Oct 1st to Apr 30, with stored root vegetables, fresh greens and eggs every week for you. This is a practical way to keep getting nutrient-dense tasty food from this local farm every week. And it helps us know how much to grow! Small size is selection of fresh vegetables each week, plus one dozen eggs, 6 items per week for 24 weeks. $600 paid in advance. Medium is 9 items, suitable for 2-3 people. Payment of $850 is 50% due on signup, balance at week 12. Large size selection of fresh vegetables, 15 items, and one dozen eggs each week for 24 weeks. Large is suitable for 4+ people. Payment of $1250 is 50% due on sign-up balance at week 12.

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday so we can pick and chill the produce at it’s freshest. Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday. Alternative arrangements by request.

Be well,
Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Week of Aug 15, posted aug 18

Hello again everyone! Sorry for the last minute blog post, Nick slept in and forgot about all the wonderful food that is growing here

A new batch if chicks has arrived at the farm for raising our pastured meat chickens because they’re so popular.

So this week we have a SPECIAL on chicken: 10% off whole or half chickens!

Veggies available this week include turnip greens, purple top white turnips, rainbow swiss chard, collard greens, green cabbage, scallions (Bunching onions), Leeks, fuku Komachi turnips, carrots, tropeana onions just to name a few.
We have peaches! Tree ripened and of course organic. Fancy grade blemish free for eating out of the hand and bulk for canning. Watermelons, musk melons (cantaloupe) and many varieties of tomatoes can be ordered online. The new garlic crop is in.

Don’t forget about our amazing pastured beef and pork as well as our very popular pastured eggs.

We appreciate everyone coming each week and look forward to seeing you all again.
Place your orders anytime, we’ll pick for you as you need it. Usual Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday are waived this week

Be well,

Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami

Wee of Aug 15 2021

Hello again everyone!

A new batch if chicks has arrived at the farm for raising our pastured meat chickens because they’re so popular.

So this week we have a SPECIAL on chicken: 10% off whole or half chickens!

Veggies available this week include turnip greens, purple top white turnips, rainbow swiss chard, collard greens, green cabbage, scallions (Bunching onions), Leeks, fuku Komachi turnips, carrots, tropeana onions just to name a few. Tree fruits, melons and tomatoes are also available at the farm when you come.

Don’t forget about our amazing pastured beef and pork as well as our very popular pastured eggs.

We appreciate everyone coming each week and look forward to seeing you all again.

Please remember to place your order before 7am Thursday. Orders placed after this time may not be processed. Market pickup times are 4pm to 6pm Thursday and Friday.

Be well,
Nick & Angela
Ian & Cami