On Sunday, April 19, 2020, Our Urban Farm hosted our first online sourdough pasta making class. It was a ton of fun! To help spread the...

If you attended Our Urban Farm's Online Sourdough Bread Baking Class, you probably already know there is more you can do with sourdough...

Every year, we try to add one more type of food crop to our small urban front yard homestead. By this, we seek to expand our knowledge...

It has been a while since we have been roasting our own coffee. The verdict has been reached that we cannot do without our home roasted...

As anyone who gardens in Minnesota knows, spring planting season never begins until Mother's Day in May, after the threat of frost has...

As a fiftysomething female whose parents were diabetic by the time they were 50, I am keenly aware of sugar spikes and dips in my own...

We recently hosted a free, online, interactive sourdough bread making class and had so much fun, we decided to do another class like it:...

The Collapse Has Begun Deep Adaptation. Those of us who have been anticipating, talking about and planning for social and economic...

On Sunday, March 29, 2020, Our Urban Farm hosted our first online sourdough bread baking class. It was a ton of fun! To help spread the...

On Sunday, March 29 you will be able to follow along from your own kitchen as we prepare and bake our weekly bread orders. As we bake our br

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

Our household has been tending a sourdough culture (starter) continuously for a number of years now. In that time, we have expanded our...

True confession: I have a major coffee buzz as I am writing this blog post. That's because we have been working on our survival plan for...

The video above is an oldie but a goodie, made when I (Mike) was still working full-time. Though the video is 13 years old, not a lot has...

Science has confirmed that trees and plants communicate with each other, and form physical support systems for each other. I see it as a sac

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

In yoga, it is common to end practice by rolling out of Savasana (corpse pose), which symbolizes the death or end of the practice, and...

Of all of the sourdough bread products we have worked to perfect, by far the most challenging one has been the bagel. Getting the dough...

Our digestive systems are themselves entire ecosystems of living organisms. We have as many as 100,000,000 microorganisms per ml of stomach