Growing

Garlic Worship

If you know anything about us at Our Urban Farms, you know we worship garlic. It is the life force that makes our sauces and salsas the...

Another Must-Watch Film: the Biggest Little Farm

We recently wrote about the film Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet. Then we watched another must-watch film, the Biggest...

Bernadette the Sustainability Chicken

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

Growing Indoors: Great Winter Fun

Each year we do what we can to expand the growing that we do. This winter, we decided to expand our indoor growing space and we have had...

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

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

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...

Canning Season Has Arrived

Today, we feel the season changing intensely. The jam/jelly canning is well underway. George has already put up several jars of jam and jell

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...

Report: Urban Farms 'Critical' to Combat Hunger and Adapt to Climate Crisis

A report from 2018 from Tompson Reuters Foundation has concluded that urban farms are critical to combat hunger and to adopt to the climate

Welcome to Our Urban Farms

For years we gave been working to transition our lives from being typical American consumers to living more sustainable and healthful lives.

Growing Potatoes in Tiny Spaces

To read some of the web sites regarding the growing of potoatoes, you would conclude there is some controversy about the best way to grow po