Old 99 Farm, week of Aug 20 2019

Tomorrow Friday is market day here, so Ican pick your veggies and fruit fresh. The real meaning of fresh, not as in Tim’s Always Fresh etc. Not too late now to order, I"ll check in the morning.
We have basil, carrots, zukes, spinach, radicchio, onions, beets and tops, beans, kale, collards, potatoes and tomatoes, and eggplant and peppers. Pretty good eh! Aronia berries are the next fruit to harvest: you use them to make juice or syrup and then mix as cordials and cold remedy (high in antioxidants). Peaches will be ready next week I expect.
Also Compost still available.

Also meats: beef, lots of steaks and burger; pork, chops and roasts, and stewing hens.

Climate News
Next public talk for Extinction Rebellion is Aug 29th 7pm at Aberdeen Gardens,330 Dundurn St. South, just north of Aberdeen. Come get the facts, not to be shy about it, we’re in an emergency situation. “Headed for extinction, what to do about it”. I do the talk, we have discussion and sharing ways Hamilton can should respond.

Watch XR co-founder, Roger Hallam, organic farmer and PhD in social change give a lecture, Time to Act, Now! this month in Devon England.

My footer from now on is
International Day of Rebellion: Oct 7

Healthy eating and living
Ian and Cami

Old 99 Farm, week of Aug 11, 2019

The harvest of beans, cukes, zukes, and greens continues to be lush as it is for carrots, spinach, radicchio, onions, beets and tops, kale, collards.

Please place your order by Thurs evening so I can pick it early Friday before the day gets hot. Produce picked cool and refrigerated soon thereafter keeps longer in your fridge at home.

Who would like to buy homemade burger patties? We had a great response to our recipe at last Friday’s Old Hwy 99 street party. These would be refrigerated not frozen. Price is $4 per patty (1/4lb).

Climate News this week:]
IPCC report IPCC Report Shows Food System Overhaul Needed to Save the Climate

SOURCE: Inside Climate News
DATE: August 8, 2019

SNIP: Negotiators for the world’s governments signed off on a report Wednesday that describes in alarming detail how agriculture, deforestation and other human impacts on lands are transforming the climate.

From the BBC
DATE: August 9, 2019

SNIP: Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found. These episodes of unusually high water temperatures are – like heatwaves on land – associated with climate change.

from Science Daily
DATE: August 8, 2019

SNIP: Rivers and lakes cover just about one percent of Earth’s surface, but are home to one third of all vertebrate species worldwide. At the same time, freshwater life is highly threatened. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and international colleagues have now quantified the global decline of big freshwater animals: From 1970 to 2012, global populations of freshwater megafauna declined by 88 percent – twice the loss of vertebrate populations on land or in the ocean.

Potluck BBQ August 18th

Please join us with our local farming friends, this coming sunday Aug 18 at noon for a potluck BBQ.

Old 99 Farm will provide burgers, hand made with our own grass fed LynchLineback beef.
Cami and I are hosting the Local 351 NFU (National Farmers Union – Ontario) Social BBQ at Old 99 Farm & Permaculture Site. The NFU is the only farm organization that seeks to build relations between farm and urban neighbours and has the most progressive agricultural and ecological policy.

1580 Old Hwy 99,
Dundas, ON
L9H 5E3.

Sunday August 18th, 12pm

Ian will do a tour that will highlight: Rotational grazing, home dairy, inground greenhouse.

Potluck lunch, please bring your own dishes, chairs and cutlery. Rain or shine! BYOB.

Hope to see you here! RSVP will help us plan.

Aug 9 - 11 weekend

We have good crop of cukes this year, picking daily to keep size small for pickling. Come by, call cell first. Away sunday after 11.
Also carrots, zukes, spinach radicchio, onions, currants picked, beets and tops, beans, kale, collards.
As always, beef, pork, eggs.

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami

Old 99 Farm, week of July28 2019

It’s the bountiful season! Cukes for pickling, zukes for barbeuing, lots of greens, onions, raspberries, currants. Soon will be apples, peaches, aronia berries, and then the root vegetables and squashes.

We can offer veggies: carrots, chicory, cukes, zukes, green onions, beet root and greens, NZ spinach, lovage, collards, kale, chard, rhubarb.
More coming: celeriac, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, string beans, potatoes, lettuce.

Meats: beef by the cut or 20lb mixed lot for $187, Pork good selection but the cut or side.
Eggs; buy 2 get three dozen.

If you are wondering how to make the case for climate emergency to friends and relations, this link is a good way to learn what is really happening with extreme weather and climate research. It it gives you a snapshop of mainstream news from around the world. It’s happening. IT HAS BEGUN.

Healthy eating,
Cami and Ian

Old 99 Berries and More this week

We’ve got a good crop of raspberries, first round of picking last week, still coming ripe as I expect for another week. Currant abundant for making syrup and dessert toppings; great source of anti-oxidants.

Come any day, helps to call ahead if its your first time so Cami or I can show you the area.

Also new crop of veggies: carrots, chicory, cukes, green onions, NZ spinach, lovage, collards, kale, chard, rhubarb.

Meats: beef by the cut or 20lb mixed lot for $187, Pork good selection but the cut or side.
Eggs; buy 2 get three dozen.

This week’s climate go-to youtube: Prof Peter Wadhams on arctic methane research and risks. Posted by UPFSI, the United Planet Faith & Science Initiative unites prominent religious figures and leading scientists to speak out together and mobilize action for ecological sustainability.
And microbiologist and climate rebel, Gail Bradbrook talking to farmers in England to support the Extinction Rebellion movement on Oct 7, the International Day of Rebellion against government negligence in the climate crisis.

Old 99 Farm, week of July 13, 2019

We are coming into the bountiful harvest season with new vegetable crops and berries ripe for picking.
Added this week: beet greens, chicory (young green radicchio), carrots, lovage, New Zealand spinach, cukes and new collards.

Last week I listed all the crops we have in the ground and forgot eggplant and sweet and hot peppers!

Black currants are now ready for picking at $1/100 gm which works out to about $5/qt or L. Raspberries same price. Bring your containers or use ours.

Eggs on special: buy 2 get one free dozen.

Beef: ground, steaks, stew (kabobs), roasts all available.
Pork selection: chops, roasts, smoked ham steaks and hams, more.
Website call-out for the week: David Holmgren’s FutureScenarios essay from 2008. He is the co-founder of permaculture, the design system for living well within the Earth’s means. He ends with this conclusion:
Let us act as if we are part of nature’s striving for the next evolutionary way to creatively respond to the recurring cycles of energy ascent and descent that characterise human history and the more ancient history of Gaia, the living planet. Imagine that our descendants and our ancestors are watching us.

Old 99 Farm, week of July 7 2019

A late reminder, we’re still here!
Thanks for the orders already send in.

New crops are coming along nicely, onions, raddichio, potatoes, squashes, beans, beets, cabbages, zukes, cukes, celeriac, carrots, collards, sweet potatoes and tomatoes.

Green onions and raddichio ready to harvest early stage growth now.

Berries will soon be out: currants and raspberries are already ripe, aronia, gooseberries later.

Eggs special: buy two dozen, get one free.

Beef and pork in good supply.

I could use a couple people over the weekend to finish putting the hay in the barn… any takers? only an hour or so.

Here are my current climate news and science sites:
http://www.carbontracker.org
http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/blog/
https://climateandeconomy.com/
https://insideclimatenews.org/
http://www.climatecentral.org/
https://wedonthavetime.org/launch/
http://www.carbone4.com/?lang=en
https://thinkprogress.org/tag/climate/
http://arctic-news.blogspot.ca/
http://www.sealevelrise.ca/
https://climatecrocks.com/
https://below2c.org/2018/08/where-is-canadas-climate-leadership/
http://jeremyleggett.net/
https://climatefeedback.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/10/ipcc-special-report-on-1-5oc/comment-page-2/#comment-711378
https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/groups/

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami
ps we had a calf born on monday evening! All going well.

Old 99 Farm, week of June 16, 2019

Lots of rhubarb, asparagus, lettuce, green onions and chard this week. Kale and collards are at end of harvest but still available.
Meats: special on beef: 15% off posted prices. Pork and stewing hens in good supply. No bacon left. Lamb boneless leg roasts available.
Eggs: buy two dozen get one free.
Active compost by the yard or bushel ready to go.
Tomato transplants, potted, ready to plant.

climate news for just one day this week: go here.

Don’t believe the Liberals are really serious about declaring a Climate Emergency. Read Leading the Public Into Emergency Mode: Introducing the Climate Emergency Movement to understand what the mobilization would mean for you and me.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

June 1st resend

Quick alert to all 200 of you on this virtual farm market list:
We have lots of asparagus, rhubarb, lettuce, kale, collards, chard and parsley ready to harvest.
I was going to write ‘fresh’ but that’s what any vendor says, fresh donuts, fresh coffee, fresh produce(harvested who knows where who knows when). So our veg are “not fresh” (pun: get it???) They are waiting for you to order.

Also have lots of eggs, beef, pork, stewing hens.

Work party at O99 this saturday: all welcome 10am to whenever.

Eggs are three doz for price of two, for XL that’s less than $5/doz average. I hope you’ll donate that extra dozen to a neighbour and get them liking farm raised organic eggs.
GO TO ONLINE VERSION TO PICK UP LINKS BELOW
My climate/biodiversity links this week:
The Tyee:StartReporting Climate Emergency
“In other words, these sources seemed more interested in convincing Canadians there isn’t a climate crisis than actually reporting on it.”
The Good Ancestor. A poem for those who care too much.
How to enjoy the end of the world Lecture by Prof Sidney Smith, Virginia Tech Green Party keynote. It’s long, the teaser offered in the title comes at last 5 minutes or so. I have made notes summary of the whole thing if you would like to save 90 minutes of excellent presentation.
What would deep adaptation to a climate crisis entail?
Resilience asks us “how do we keep what we really want to keep?”
Relinquishment asks us “what do we need to let go of in order to not make matters worse?”
Restoration asks us “what can we bring back to help us with the coming difficulties and tragedies?
Finally, a fourth question to guide our reflection on how to navigate our climate tragedy: Reconciliation “What could I make peace with to lessen suffering?”

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami