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Creating Independence Series

May 31

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

Bernadette the Sustainability Chicken

We often hear from people who want help promoting sustainable living. Our answer: Bernadette, the Sustainability Chicken. When we began...

What We Can Learn from Our Neighborhood Opossums

Our Urban Farms

Jan 21

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

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...

The Very Dangerous Thing Nearly Everyone Gets Wrong About Alternative Energy

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

The Day I Quit Smoking and What it Taught Me About Climate Change

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

The backpack question--What would you chose to pack and bring with you?

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

World-wide youth lead us all in the climate strike movement

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

Why Nuclear Power is No Solution to Climate Crisis

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

A Fun Way to Save the Planet: Make it Yourself

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

Getting Ready for a New, Necessary and Better Way of Living

Our Urban Farms

Aug 26, 2019

Getting Ready for a New, Necessary and Better Way of Living

A soft and pensive voice says, "I think that most of feel that something bad is coming our way." The voice is that of a 13-year-old girl i

Watch: Professor Jem Bendell Says Our Mother Earth Says #MeToo

Our Urban Farms

Aug 20, 2019

Watch: Professor Jem Bendell Says Our Mother Earth Says #MeToo

Professor Jem Bendell, author of the acclaimed paper on Deep Adaptation, spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest on April 15, 2019....

Tour de Sustainability and Excitement from Our Website First Days

Our Urban Farms

Aug 20, 2019

Tour de Sustainability and Excitement from Our Website First Days

Our new website is literally only a few days old and we are very excited about everything that is happening. Hundreds of unique visitors...

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