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
- 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 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
- 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....
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
Suzanne Stenson O'Brien
- Sep 16, 2019
comprehendere
"Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller
Our Urban Farms
- Sep 5, 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
TaoLady
- Sep 5, 2019
Flax seed hair gel
Home made flax gel makes shiny hair
George Hamm
- Sep 2, 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
Our Urban Farms
- Aug 31, 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 27, 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