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Learn Some Birds. Depending on where you live and what kind of habitat you’ve got, it’s possible to see upward of 200 different bird species in your backyard.

Few things are equally as freeing and as daunting as a blank slate, as one Texas homeowner learned when faced with a bare backyard. The homeowner fittingly took to the r/NoLawns subreddit, writing ...

In a sunlit backyard somewhere in northeast Los Angeles, a homegrown citrus tree blossoms. A stranger stands a few meters back in contemplation. She scans the tree’s billowing foliage. She moves ...

And depending on where you live, global warming could be moving alligators into your backyard. A few days ago I looked a wild alligator right in the eye from only a few yards away, and it stared ...

Back at the turn of this century, Torino, Italy–based design and art collective Nucleo came up with an eccentric idea: to grow a sustainable lawn chair made of living grass that you could plant ...

Care and Feeding Our 3-Year-Old Is Suddenly Terrified of Going in Our Backyard. I Know What Her Brother Did. It has to do with the lake behind our house.