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 17 2013
This post expired on February 20, 2023.
Really late this week, not that it matters to the loyal regulars who have already sent their orders in!! Thank you all. www.old99farm.locallygrown.net
Eggs special this week
Three for two pricing. Buy two get a third dozen to share with a neighbour or shut-in.
The cold and stopped any growth in the greenhouse, not enough to harvest greens this week. I do have carrots in the ground and potatoes in storage.
Some sobering food soundbites from the web last week, first by the renowned Lester Brown:
New era of food scarcity echoes collapsed civilizations
“The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.”
Read more at http://sgnews.ca/2013/02/11/food-from-abundance-to-scarcity/
And from David Suzuki, who needs no introduction, about tarsands, arctic drilling and climate upset:
Government must heed environment commissioner’s warnings
“Vaughan [Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner, Scott Vaughan] says the government has no real plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and is not even on track to meet its own modest targets (already watered down from the widely accepted emission-levels baseline of 1990 to 2005). It is unprepared for tanker accidents and oil spills in coastal waters. It lacks regulations governing toxic chemicals used by the oil industry.”
Full text at http://sgnews.ca/2013/02/14/putting-the-environment-on-the-agenda/