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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...
Our Urban Farms
Sep 21, 2022


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
Jul 1, 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
Jun 20, 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
May 31, 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
Mar 13, 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 21, 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 19, 2021


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
Apr 29, 2020


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
Mike Fry
Oct 25, 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
Our Urban Farms
Oct 6, 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
Mike Fry
Sep 30, 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
George Hamm
Sep 23, 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 20, 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
Our Urban Farms
Sep 18, 2019

comprehendere
"Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller
Suzanne Stenson O'Brien
Sep 16, 2019


Join Us For Fun and Food
As the 2019 growing season comes to a close, we are celebrating the bounty the Earth has brought us. With the pantry stocked with another ye
Our Urban Farms
Sep 5, 2019


Flax seed hair gel
Home made flax gel makes shiny hair
TaoLady
Sep 5, 2019


How I Became a Year-Round Bicyclist
I don't remember the exact day I began the process of becoming a year-round bicyclist. However, what began as a weekend adventure of short
George Hamm
Sep 2, 2019


A Fun Way to Save the Planet: Make it Yourself
As we work to make a better future for ourselves, we look to do three basic things: 1) To restore things from the past that used to work...
Our Urban Farms
Aug 31, 2019


Bamboo, Because We Give a Crap
Paper companies apparently think it is OK to wipe their butts - literally - with old-growth boreal forests. They are clear cutting them and
Our Urban Farms
Aug 27, 2019
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