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    We Are Not Helpless Victims of the Climate Crisis. We are the Cause of it.
    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...
    Must Watch: Breaking Boundaries - A Netflix Original Documentary
    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...
    Building Community Post Social Distancing
    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...
    Bernadette the Sustainability Chicken
    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...
    What We Can Learn from Our Neighborhood Opossums
    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...
    Winter Eggs
    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...
    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....
    Sustainability & Technology
    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
    Living Food and Why We Need It
    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
    comprehendere
    Suzanne Stenson O'Brien
    • Sep 16, 2019

    comprehendere

    "Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller
    Join Us For Fun and Food
    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
    Flax seed hair gel
    TaoLady
    • Sep 5, 2019

    Flax seed hair gel

    Home made flax gel makes shiny hair
    How I Became a Year-Round Bicyclist
    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...
    Bamboo, Because We Give a Crap
    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
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