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 Aug 15 2015
Did you notice that post on friday that we are now in ecological ‘overshoot’ as a planet, as of Aug 13? Means even the renewable resources we consume from here to the end of the year, cannot be replaced/renewed in an annual cycle. Worth pondering…
Fewer items each week passing as the seasonal items get sold out, and we’re waiting for the next harvest. But fun to say, today I picked the crop of peaches from our orchard, organic, mostly untended fruit trees. One whole 10 kg basket! Needless to say you will not be seeing these in the store! Unless you ask me very nicely …
Special is now over for lamb, but I am taking several animals to butcher at the end of the month. I have a sad story to relate on that; I found that the sheep have a high parasite load from not being rotated often enough around my paddocks and I lost two to anemia. The rest had to be treated with antibiotics so they are no longer organic. But you decide if that’s a deal breaker: they have had great pasture, no drugs, a good life.
Did you ever see the BBC series on This Living Earth with David Attenborough? I just found his two documentaries on The Truth about Climate Change, one from 2006 and one from 2013. They’re on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JmrmwIyhAE
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