The Urban Farm Blog

Articles, recipes, ponderings, poems, and more!

Are You Cooking Your Fruit Trees?

We Need to STOP Recycling!

Farming Our Everywhere

Why would anyone choose urban farming?

Protecting Your Data in this Global Age.

Do you know me? I'm an Urban Farmer

The germination of an idea

RECIPE: Chef Jennifer's Shrimp Tacos

To the Weeds, To the Wilderness

Planting for Bees

RECIPES: Kid Friendly Recipes from Chef Molly Beverly

Featured Farmer: Mandy May from Sideyard Farm

Healthy Soils Support Life

Looking Back and Forward to the New Year Ahead

Getting Animals to Work for You on the Urban Homestead

This Movement

Wildcrafting, Foraging, and Growing Native

A Peek into My Garden Journal

My Chickens Have the Pox!

Featured Farmer: John Naughton from Mountain Sky Farms

The Thing That Took Me by Surprise, When I Started Growing My Own Food

Wiggle Room: A Red Wriggler Obsession

Things I Wish I Had Known About Chickens Before I Got Them!

Planting Through the Low Desert Seasons

How to Find the Right-Sized Tractor for Your Urban Farm

Featured Farmer: Matthew Mays from Pittsburgh, PA

If Honeybees Become Extinct…Why Their Loss Could Sting

A New Start to My Beekeeping Adventure!

Spin Farming or Small Plot Intensive Farming – Path for Profit Making!

To Crow or Not to Crow? That is the Question.

One Year of Vermicomposting: Updates and Things to Watch Out For

Wicking Bed 2.0

Featured Farmer: Lori from Rose-Xanadu

6 Ways to Create Farmers' Market Fun with Kids

Defending the Last Ripe Melon: A Story of a Squirrel, Two Boys with BB Guns and the Dallas Police!

Becoming a Fruit Tree Slum Lord

Raising Animals for Meat on an Urban Homestead

Death on the Urban Homestead

Way too many apples!!! Part 2: Juice and Dehydration

RECIPE: Way Too Many Apples!!! Part 1: Applesauce

Featured Farmer: Beth from Phoenix, AZ

RECIPE: How to Make Apple Wine

Dehydrating Your Home Grown Herbs

Urban Permaculture: Creating a Swale on an Urban-Sized Scale

Featured Farmer: Alex Platz from Die Walhall Heimstätte

The Fruit Tree Mud Bath Salon

The Garden Battle Plan: Defeating my Garden Nemeses

Yes, You Need to Thin That Fruit!

Urban Farming Inspiration: Food Revolution and Spring Projects

Featured Farmer: Ruth Pepler from Dogwood Hills Guest Farm

Africanized Bees: Is Backyard Bee Keeping a Good Idea in the South?

Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ

Building my Wicking Garden Bed

Cutting the Cost of Raising Your Flock: Growing Greens for Your Girls

Myrna's "Instant Orchard" (in an Urban Desert)

What Urban Farming Can Do for Your School

Fermenting Feed for your Flock

Featured Farmer: Nancy Bailey from Honey Hill Farm

Raising Nutritious Insects to Cut the Cost of Raising Your Flock

How to Cut the Cost of Raising Your Flock