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The Urban Farm Blog

Articles, recipes, ponderings, poems, and more!

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

One Infographic, Everything You Need to Know About CSAs

Killer Compost: Why I am Saying Goodbye to Composted Manure

6 Livestock Management Tips for Small Scale Farmers

Newcomers in the Garden in 2016: A Boom or a Bust?

Building a Community Compost?

Featured Farmer: Tim Diebel from Taproot Garden

Raising Rabbits on the Urban Homestead: How My Eleven-Year-Old Taught Me How to be an Entrepreneur

The Lowdown on Solar Ovens

Tales from Beekeeping: My Expectations vs. the Reality

Featured Farmer: Melinda from The Homesteading and Preparedness Collective

The Creation of a Community Garden

Be a Plant Diversity Superhero: Tips and Tricks for Saving Seeds

RECIPE: Apple Pie Jam

Featured Farmer: Denise Stalder from Erlengrabenli

Cultivating Customers: A Farmer's Guide to Online Marketing

Coconut Oil May Be Environmentally & Socially Unsustainable

The Secret to Creating Change in our own World

Featured Farmer: Ryan Leach of Live Simply Live Richly Farm

The (Very) Brief Guide to Industrial Agriculture

A Bright Idea for Urban Farming: Solar Cooking

BackYard Orchard Culture

Top 10 things Schools can do to Go Green

Low Down on Plastic Numbers

10 SIMPLE Things You Can Do For Earth Day

Greg's Favorite Tree

Food packaging of the future: It’s edible!

Want to Make a Difference? Say Goodbye to Plastic Single-Use Items

Featured Farmer: Molly Cole of Our Little Acre Farm

The Urban Farm Podcast's Top 10 Episodes for Growing Fruit Trees

Climate change and ski resorts: The livelihood of winter recreation

Urban Fruit Trees: Bounty for the Lazy Gardener

NonComposting on the Urban Farm

Simple Secrets for Sustainable Living

Featured Farmer: Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm

Book Review: Locally Laid

The Mindset Change that Will Make You a Better Urban Farmer

Palm Oil: Why You Should Avoid It

Featured Farmer: DeBorah Prince from Urban G4G

Agave Nectar: Friend or Foe?

How to Beautify Your Veggie Garden

Simple Ways to Make Your Kids LOVE Vegetables

How to Embrace a More Sustainable Lifestyle

Featured Farmer: Candy from Zorro's Garden

Seafood and Sustainability: Are They Compatible?