Pizza Oven/Hot Tub v 2.2 is Making Fall More Beautiful
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...
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Our Urban Farms
Aug 27, 2021
Signs of the Times
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...
Our Urban Farms
Jul 6, 2021
Garlic Worship
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...
Our Urban Farms
Jul 1, 2021
We Are Not Helpless Victims of the Climate Crisis. We are the Cause of it.
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...
Our Urban Farms
Jun 21, 2021
Another Must-Watch Film: the Biggest Little Farm
We recently wrote about the film Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet. Then we watched another must-watch film, the Biggest...
Our Urban Farms
Jun 20, 2021
Must Watch: Breaking Boundaries - A Netflix Original Documentary
As I type this, the western United States is engulfed in a record-breaking heatwave and drought. At the same time, sea levels continue...
Our Urban Farms
May 31, 2021
Building Community Post Social Distancing
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...
Our Urban Farms
Mar 13, 2021
Bernadette the Sustainability Chicken
We often hear from people who want help promoting sustainable living. Our answer: Bernadette, the Sustainability Chicken. When we began...
Our Urban Farms
Jan 21, 2021
What We Can Learn from Our Neighborhood Opossums
The only marsupial found in the USA, the Opossum, is an interesting and relative newcomer to Minnesota. Back when we worked and...
Our Urban Farms
Jan 19, 2021
Winter Eggs
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...
Our Urban Farms
Jan 5, 2021
Growing Indoors: Great Winter Fun
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...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 29, 2020
The Very Dangerous Thing Nearly Everyone Gets Wrong About Alternative Energy
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....
Our Urban Farms
Mar 17, 2020
Cottage Food Production in Minnesota in a Time of COVID-19
Yesterday we received official information from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that outlined a number of commonsense but extremely
George Hamm
Nov 1, 2019
Audubon Society provides great online tool to see the local impact of climate change on birds
Recent headlines shocked a number of people in terms of how climate change has affected bird populations in North America. According to...
Mike Fry
Oct 25, 2019
Sustainability & Technology
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
Our Urban Farms
Oct 6, 2019
Living Food and Why We Need It
Our digestive systems are themselves entire ecosystems of living organisms. We have as many as 100,000,000 microorganisms per ml of stomach
Mike Fry
Sep 30, 2019
The Day I Quit Smoking and What it Taught Me About Climate Change
For those uninitiated to nicotine addiction, consider this: it is the third most addictive drug, coming in just behind heroin and cocaine. O
George Hamm
Sep 23, 2019
The backpack question--What would you chose to pack and bring with you?
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
Our Urban Farms
Sep 20, 2019
World-wide youth lead us all in the climate strike movement
Friday, September 20, 2019 should be remembered as marking the beginning of a greater movement toward building meaningful action and unity a
Our Urban Farms
Sep 18, 2019
Why Nuclear Power is No Solution to Climate Crisis
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
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