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 Mar 26 2023
We can offer the first crops of greens started this spring:
mesclun salad mix,
baby arugula,
bok choi,
baby nero kale,
frilly kale and
green chard.
Place an order for eggs, two for one, and please order at least one veg. That’s all, the only catch. Pls order by thurs 8am so I can pick fresh for you. Check the Market tab for availability.Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
This is me working in the germination greenhouse nursery seeding flats of this year’s crops.
The overwintering crops are holding strong: rainbow chard, spinach, tong ho, mustard greens, red russian kale, Nero and Westlandse kales.
Sold out of onions and potatoes, but still lots of garlic.
All in all, about 20 items from the garden And the eggs keep on coming, fresh every day!
We have good choice of beef and pork: steaks, roasts and ground. Most organs are sold out.
Specials this week: pork chops, 15% off. Ground beef 15% off.
Two weeks till our spring harvest basket program starts: 6 veggies and dozen eggs for $27/week, lasting 10 weeks. Starts first week of April; sign up in the online store.
Healthy eating,
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old 99 Farm, Week of mar 19 2023
We can offer the first crops of greens started this spring: mesclun salad mix, baby arugula and baby nero kale, frilly kale and green chard. The overwintering crops are holding strong: rainbow chard, spinach, tong ho, mustard greens, red russian kale, Nero and Westlandse kales.
Sold out of onions and potatoes, but still lots of garlic.
All in all, about 20 items from the garden And the eggs keep on coming, fresh every day!
We have good choice of beef and pork: steaks, roasts and ground. Most organs are sold out.
Special this week: pork chops, 15% off.
Two weeks till our spring harvest basket program starts: 6 veggies and dozen eggs for $27/week, lasting 10 weeks. Starts first week of April; sign up in the online store.
Healthy eating,
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old 99 Farm Week of Mar 12 2023
Yes we have 20 different veggies in the greenhouse for you. Including new crop of mixed baby greens and arugula.
Pop in today I’ll take your order. Check the Market tab for availability.Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
Beef on special: hamburger buy 1Kg, get one free. that’s $9/kg!
Spring Harvest Basket starts first week of April $27 a week for 6 veg plus dozen eggs.
Healthy eating
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old 99 farm eggs special two for one! Feb 28 2023
Yes, that’s right, gonna go broke this way! But the eggs are the best.
Place an order for eggs, and please order at least one veg. That’s all, the only catch. Pls order by thurs 8am so I can pick fresh for you. Check the Market tab for availability.Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
we have 20 vegetables in the ground plus a couple in storage. Lots to choose from.
The germination room is full of seedlings, going in the greenhouses, will be ready for the April launch of next Harvest Basket season. Spring season 10 weeks at $27/week.
Healthy eating
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old99 Farm week of feb 19 2023
I missed clicking the send button! ddratt. Well here’s the pictures.
This is going to be mostly visual!
First, where we are already starting the seedlings for the spring crop: in the sauna!
Here is Cami taking the row covers off the winter crops, and if you look closely, you will see green sprouts in many empty beds.
We have 20 crops for you again this week. Pls order by thurs 8am so I can pick fresh for you. Check the Market tab for availability.Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
We will be doing a Spring Harvest Basket starting Apr 4 for 10 weeks. You’ll get 5 or 6 veggies and a dozen eggs or lb of ground beef or pork for $27. This is a smaller basket than our summer offering of 8 to 10 items. Order your basket in the Market tab.
Specials
- eggs continues: buy 3 get one free.
- pork chops 15% off
Healthy eating
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old99 Farm week of Feb 13 2023
We have 20 vegetables for you to choose from again this week! Pretty good for middle Feb.
Also eggs on special buy 3 get one free.
Meats, burger and stew beef special 10% off…
Please consider spring harvest basket, starts Apr 3 for 10 weeks, 6 to 8 veg plus eggs for $27. Sign up online by placing order as usual.
Healthy eating,
Ian Cami and Lauren
ps we have already planted lettuces, bokchoi, carrots, tong ho, mesclun, mizuna and kale.
Old 99 Farm week of Jan 29 2023
My reminder to you all, we have fresh vegetables in the ground in the greenhouses. Check the Market tab for availability.Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
We will be doing a Spring Harvest Basket starting Apr 4 for 10 weeks. You’ll get 5 or 6 veggies and a dozen eggs or lb of ground beef or pork for $27. This is a smaller basket than our summer offering of 8 to 10 items. Order your basket in the Market tab.
Special back on eggs: buy three, get four dozen, all extra large.
Healthy eating
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Old 99 Farm, week of Jan 20 2021
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Here is one of my fav new oriental veggies. It’s called Tatsoi. We have a nice patch of it growing in the greenhouse right now.
How do we keep harvesting all winter? This is Lauren D, tidying up and prepping beds for replanting.
Here’s the harvest table last week:
Now don’t you want to drop an order off right here for this week? Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
No special on eggs this week but I will offer 15% off our round roasts. We cooked one in the InstaPot on Sunday, took an hour and it was cut-with-a-fork tender.
Healthy Eating
Ian, Cami and Lauren
Beef 15% of this week at Old 99
Hello fellow travellers,
Yes, I’ll offer 15% off this week on all beef products, that’s 50% greater discount than last week! I better make the offer limited to $50 total value after discount.
And we have quite a few vegetables too. The cold has been hard on them, anything outdoors with protection has not survived.
Lots of eggs, still buy 3 doz get one free.
Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
Healthy eating
Ian and Cami
Old 99 farm Beef, 10% off xmas week
This week we’ll have a full selection of beef cuts, available as pieces, quarters or 20lb selections. Old 99 Beef, heritage Lynch Lineback, pasture raised right here. I have two beeves in the freezer so lots of selection and a 10% discount to boot!
Also vegetables as usual, great selection, 29 items! Maybe you try something new? our asian greens: bokchoi, Tatsoi, Tong Ho, tokyo Bekana mustard, and Giant Red Mustard.
Arugula
Beets
Bok choi
Collards
Spinach
New Zealand Spinach
Spinach Chard
Rainbow Chard
Herbs
Kale, Vates baby leaf
Kale, Frilly green
Kale, Russian Red
Kale, Nero di Toscano
Leek, Young
Lettuce: Buttercrunch, Romaine
Mustard greens (Toyko Bekana, Giant Red)
Onions, Sweet Utah, fresh
Hot Peppers Szechuan style (hot 10K to 50K SHU), Thai style (50K to 100K SHU)
Rutabaga
Tat Soi
Tong Ho
Purple Topped baby Turnip
Turnip Greens
Free Eggs
Yes, that’s right free eggs, but you have to buy three dozen to get the free one! And so it goes some weeks, not every one!
Would you like a local farmer all-your-own?
One customer has asked me if I would consider being host farmer for their family, supplying everything we produce for a flat fee plus contribution of nominal hours on farmhelp. If you are a little bit curious to know more, let me know. It will allow me to plan the onfarm production and workforce for the coming year. You get me to grow what you want, both fresh and storage. The idea is to commit to a local farm for the whole year for most of your vegetables, meats and eggs.
Surf to the online store here to place your order. Store pick up Thurs 4 to 6 or by arrangement.
Healthy eating,
Ian, Cami and Lauren