backyard.bio
A nature journal about your backyard.
Most of us stopped seeing what's living three feet from the back door.
We write to help you find it again — the small, daily beauty of what's living, growing, and arriving on the patch outside your door.
Issues
All Issues →An Issue is a small collection of pieces on one theme — usually three or four parts, meant to be read in order. They go deep on a single question, and they come out three or four times a year.
Field notes
All field notesShorter, more frequent — a thing seen this week, a question worth thinking about, a recommendation worth passing along. Field notes come out two or three times a week. You can read most of them in five minutes.
- Apr 24
The seed mix in the hardware-store packet was mostly filler
Plant - Apr 22
Goldenrod is innocent. Ragweed is the one that makes you sneeze.
Species - Apr 19
No yard? Three things you can still do from a kitchen window.
Practice - Apr 16
The fox came back. She brought a kit this time.
Saw - Apr 14
Four books, in the order I wish I'd read them
Reading
Not sure where to start?
We publish in two formats. Issues are deeper reads on a single topic, three or four times a year. Field Notes are shorter pieces, two or three a week. Once a week we send the best of both as a Sunday letter.
Pick a thread below to find what pulls you in.
The Wild Patch Fund
Help a school plant their first patch.
A small donor-funded program that buys native-plant kits for schoolyards. 100% of every dollar reaches the planting. We don't take a cut. The publication just runs it.
Read about the Fund →Free now · founder pricing later
A weekly letter, free.
One Issue piece, two Field Notes, one thing to try in your patch. About four minutes to read. Sundays. No tracking, no ads, no growth tactics — just the writing.
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