A whopping 41% of the contiguous US is used to feed livestock. And, because agri-businesses like to maximize profits, they usually grow thes

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. We are thrilled tha...

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 joy of sourdough past...

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

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 and understanding of ...

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 coffee. We start with...

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

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 blood and body. Anyone...

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

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

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 joy of sourdough brea...

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 learning by creating ...

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 keeping ourselves in...

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 changed since it wa...

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 the Audubon Society'...

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 into the fetal positio...