Old 99 Farm, week of Apr 18 2017

I’ve been hustling around the farm, not much time online, just sending this quick reminder to you’all for your weekly greens, meats, eggs and flour.

same availability as last week.

Old 99 Farm, week of Apr 9th 2017

New this week is rhubarb, spinach rocket arugula and perpetual green chard, along with the rest of greens: rainbow chard, kale, cabbage, mesclun, parsley, and claytonia. Root cellar stored potatoes, three varieties, including Russet for baking.
Egg production is increasing.
Pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, goose in the freezer.
Consider a turkey for Easter?

healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

old 99 farm, week of Apr 1st. 2017

More eggs this week, I may be onto the source of the problem. anyway they’re laying more.

I’ve posted several real exciting world futures links on my facebook page. I hope you go have a look at the videos of John D Lui, american cinematographer and journalist, or Gaviotas, the village in Columbia that was created on a wasteland and is now world famous for creating solutions to energy, jobs, ecological restoration.

In our garden we have same choice of greens as last week, and still lots of meats in the freezers. Taking orders for half pig, quarter beef, roasting hens, for next fall.

Starting up soon: Permaculture for newbies: A good-life design guide for Millennials, Boomers, and Generation X. Strategies, tools, and techniques to help you navigate the cardinal threats of climate instability, economic irrationality, the limits to growth, and political criminality. We’ll use ipermie!, an almanac of useful information and urban permaculture self-study guide. No cost for the study group: just a commitment to attend biweekly for 10 sessions. We’ll see where we go after that. First session week of April 15th.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

Old 99 Farm, week of Mar 25 2017

Did you know that the UN sponsored an International Day of Yoga last year, June 21? A highly regarded yogi, sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev was invited to speak to the assembly, a youtube of which is available on line. In fact this not the first, in 1970 Shri Chinmoy established daily meditations and a yoga club at the UN which is still going. Yoga is about self-awareness and union of inner and outer experience, very helpful in these troubled times.

Now the garden, also very helpful in these times. We have new harvest kale, chard, mixed greens, radish, arugula, cilantro, claytonia and cabbage, also potatoes, onions and garlic in root cellar.

Turkey and goose still on half price. Same with garlic at $1/bulb. Lamb and pork in good supply.!

The open house and discussion re permaculture and Belize agro-forestry was well attended, very enjoyable sharing afterward. I shared my intention to start a learning group for ‘newbie permies’ who want to learn how to do more in their own home/apartments/small properties to use permaculture to reduce their carbon footprints, become more self-sufficient, and design their places. We’ll use Bob Waldrop’s online book ipermie!. ($US2 (two) for an 800 page manual, the complete permaculture design course and more). It is “A good-life ebook design guide for Millennials, Boomers, and Generation X. Strategies, tools, and techniques to help you navigate the cardinal threats of climate instability, economic irrationality, the limits to growth, and political criminality. An Almanac of Useful Information and Urban Permaculture Self-Study Guide.”

If you are interested in learning more of this project, drop me a line.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

Old 99 FArm, week of mar 18 2017

We have a small quantity of new harvest kale, chard, mixed greens, radish and cabbage; won’t last long, in fact I’d be fine with not selling any of it: more for the house!

Turkey and goose still on half price. Same with garlic at $1/bulb. Lamb and pork in good supply.!

The open house and discussion re permaculture and Belize agro-forestry was well attended, very enjoyable sharing afterward. HERE is the link to a short video clip by one of the classmates, complete with Garafunga drumming soundtrack

I shared my intention to start a learning group for ‘newbie permies’ who want to learn how to do more in their own home/apartments/small properties to use permaculture to reduce their carbon footprints, become more self-sufficient, and design their places. We’ll use Bob Waldrop’s online book ipermie!. ($US2 for an 800 page manual, the complete permaculture design course and more). It is “A good-life ebook design guide for Millennials, Boomers, and Generation X. Strategies, tools, and techniques to help you navigate the cardinal threats of climate instability, economic irrationality, the limits to growth, and political criminality. An Almanac of Useful Information and Urban Permaculture Self-Study Guide.”

If you are interested in learning more of this project, drop me a line.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami

Old 99 farm, week of Mar 12 2017

We can offer several fresh crops from the Hobbit greenhouse: kale, radish, chard and napa cabbage.

We’re hosting an open house this sat at the farm, 2pm to 4. topic: Belize trip, agroforestry site, permaculture design, responses to climate disruption. Beverages provided. Pls rsvp.

I had a great trip, Cami and Mark Fair did a wonderful job caring for the farm, all is well and we have lots of plans for the future. Ideas from the permaculture design course include making and using biochar, building a biogas digester for fuel and even electricity, more tree planting and improved water storage.

Healthy eating
Ian and Cami

We have turkey and goose still on special at half price.

Old 99 Farm, week of March 5, 2017

We’ll hear about Ian‘s involvement with the growing international permaculture community when he comes back, in few days. All I know now, is that he’s learning lots and that the whole adventure is a great experience.

Same request for market please, place your order before Friday noon, and we should be good to go!

Cami

Market reminder for Friday, March 3rd

You still can place your order for tomorrow’s market, but not later than Friday noon please :) See you during regular hours or, if you can’t make it, I’ll leave it for you in the cooler.
Cami

Old 99 FArm, week of Feb 26 2017

Cami will be managing the market for the next two weeks while I am away for a permaculture course. Please don’t stay away,, there is lots of food here!

There won’t be a message coming out next week unless she figures out how to do it!

Health eating,
Ian and Cami

Old 99 Farm, week of Feb 20 2017

Check out my facebook page for what I’m reading and excited about around the world For instance a global NGO consortium is putting out a book in April called Drawdown, about a 100 ways to get carbon out of the air and stabilize the climate within 30 years.

Here at the farm, it’s quiet. First new crop of kale is ready to pick, others not far behind. Lots of meats in the freezers.

I’m going to a permaculture design course in Belize, led by Albert Bates, a major player in the grassroots effort to get climate under control. Be back on Mar 13, hopefully charged up to go for the year!

Sold out of carrots, will have to plant more this year. Have lots of potatoes and garlic, still some onions, lots of eggs.

See you Friday.

Healthy eating,
Ian and Cami