As 2022 comes to a close and temperatures begin to drop, we are being extra appreciative of the updates and changes we have made to make...

Out on a recent stroll in the neighborhood I (Mike) saw some signs in a yard that made me laugh out loud in a kind of tragic irony sort...

If you know anything about us at Our Urban Farms, you know we worship garlic. It is the life force that makes our sauces and salsas the...

As we prepared this blog post, both the east and west coasts of the USA have been engulfed in record-setting heat waves, the likes of...

We recently wrote about the film Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet. Then we watched another must-watch film, the Biggest...

As I type this, the western United States is engulfed in a record-breaking heatwave and drought. At the same time, sea levels continue...

As Summer of 2021 begins to take hold, and the whole world begins to open up to a post social distancing world, it is a great time to...

We often hear from people who want help promoting sustainable living. Our answer: Bernadette, the Sustainability Chicken. When we began...

The only marsupial found in the USA, the Opossum, is an interesting and relative newcomer to Minnesota. Back when we worked and...

As this is our first winter with chickens there were a lot of things we did not know coming into the season. Would the watering system...

Each year we do what we can to expand the growing that we do. This winter, we decided to expand our indoor growing space and we have had...

Before getting too far into this post, we have to first say that we have a pretty large (18 panels) solar array on our house. We love it....

Yesterday we received official information from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that outlined a number of commonsense but extremely

Recent headlines shocked a number of people in terms of how climate change has affected bird populations in North America. According to...

It is a destructive form of planned obsolescence, a way of making our old stuff as obsolete as quickly as possible so that we need to go out

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For those uninitiated to nicotine addiction, consider this: it is the third most addictive drug, coming in just behind heroin and cocaine. O

Maybe it's because yesterday was the global climate strike, or maybe it's just this time of year. I began to pose the question to myself--if

Friday, September 20, 2019 should be remembered as marking the beginning of a greater movement toward building meaningful action and unity a

The DOE has a stated goal of cleaning the existing contaminated sites by 2025. Just one site in Fernald, Ohio has "31 million pounds of ura