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 May 29 2022
I haven’t been websurfing that much lately but the same issues are still there facing us for the future we want for ourselves and our children. A common theme: Relocalize, that can be added to the ones we know well: Refuse, Reuse, Recycle, Repair.
Local food is part of the larger idea that we will be more secure, more resilient, more healthy if we relocalize much of our lifestyle choices, ie food. Consider this quote “Thanks to globalization, food produced regionally or nationally is more likely to be exported than to feed the local population: They’ll eat food imported from elsewhere. The situation is now so absurd that countries regularly import and export nearly identical quantities of identical products.”
Isn’t that crazy?
I watched a very good local documentary from Rochester MN on the current state of the climate/ecology crisis that made me feel glad I’m a local food producer. Watch especially from 1:14:00 for the summary.
It’s strawberry season and are you wondering if there’s a nifty kitchen gadget for dehulling those fresh picked treats? Here it is the Strawberry/Tomato Corer.
You can help us here at Old 99 to keep on producing if you join up for the Summer Harvest Basket. In Quebec 140 farms provide 28,000 people with their vegetables from local growers through a network organized by FermierdeFamille. Our summer basket share is for 20 weeks at $31.95 a week, starting June 13th, payable in two instalments. If you want biweekly baskets, ie 10 weeks, because maybe you don’t think you can eat 8 to 10 vegetables a week, then choose that option with a comment in the order form.
This week’s offerings includes new carrots and head lettuce (Kaiser) in addition to
Asparagus (1lb)
Black Currant Leaf, fresh (50g)
Green Chard, small leaf, 8 oz
Claytonia baby greens
Kale, Frilly green (8 oz)
Kale, Russian Red (8 oz)
Kale, Nero di Toscano, baby (6 oz)
Lettuce, Buttercrunch (ea)
Lettuce, Grand Rapids (7oz)
Lettuce, Rouge d’Hiver (bunch .5lb)
Mesclun Salad Mix (6 oz)
Mizuna (6 oz)
Mustard, Tokyo Bekana (.5lb)
Onions, Green Bunching (6)
Hakurei Breakfast turnip (3 bu)
Parsley, Curly Leaf (6 oz)
Rhubarb stalks (1 lb)
Spinach (8 oz)
Tong Ho (bu)
Cilantro 4 oz
Parsley 6 oz
Turnip Greens
Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
Please click here for brochure on Harvest Basket.
