Sourdough Pasta Class is Online
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...
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Our Urban Farms
Apr 17, 2020
Sourdough is About More than Bread
If you attended Our Urban Farm's Online Sourdough Bread Baking Class, you probably already know there is more you can do with sourdough...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 15, 2020
Blueberries are this year's garden learning experience
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...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 10, 2020
A Great Way to Try a Better Coffee
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...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 10, 2020
Garlic Sprouts Usher in a Hopeful 2020 Urban Farming Season
As anyone who gardens in Minnesota knows, spring planting season never begins until Mother's Day in May, after the threat of frost has...
TaoLady
Apr 7, 2020
Sourdough & Blood Sugar
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...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 6, 2020
Free Online Sourdough Pasta Making Class Announced
We recently hosted a free, online, interactive sourdough bread making class and had so much fun, we decided to do another class like it:...
Our Urban Farms
Apr 1, 2020
The Collapse Has Begun - And That Might Be OK
The Collapse Has Begun Deep Adaptation. Those of us who have been anticipating, talking about and planning for social and economic...
Our Urban Farms
Mar 30, 2020
Sourdough Bread Baking Class is Online
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...
Our Urban Farms
Mar 18, 2020
Free Online Sourdough Bread Making Class Announced
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
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
Our Urban Farms
Mar 16, 2020
Travel to New Mexico Has Created New Learning and Fascinating Results for Our Sourdough
Our household has been tending a sourdough culture (starter) continuously for a number of years now. In that time, we have expanded our...
Mike Fry
Dec 7, 2019
A Coffee Snob's Survival Plan for Climate Change
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...
Our Urban Farms
Nov 23, 2019
Something to Think About Heading into the Holiday Season
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...
George Hamm
Nov 17, 2019
Seeking the Sacred in Nature
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
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 18, 2019
New Beginnings Even as Growing Season Ends
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...
Our Urban Farms
Oct 13, 2019
The Quest for the Perfect Bagel
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 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
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