Backyard Industry
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Food, gardens, art, DIY, barter, skillsharing, mutualism, & maintenance of community social infrastructure. Backyard is a state of mind. backyardindustry.substack.com
November 2025 garden cleanup. Temperature: 72°. No inspiration yet for the 2026 yard reimagining, but it'll come.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
November 2025 garden cleanup. Temperature: 72°. No inspiration yet for the 2026 yard reimagining, but it'll come.
Garden, do errands, watch tennis, do another errand, plant more sunflowers and beans, get dinner going, stay grounded.
June 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Garden, do errands, watch tennis, do another errand, plant more sunflowers and beans, get dinner going, stay grounded.
Two days of vibes feeling off means I should probably go sit in the garden before bed and get some perspective
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Two days of vibes feeling off means I should probably go sit in the garden before bed and get some perspective
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Good morning and welcome to Birb Yoga. Let's get our stretch on.
May 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good morning and welcome to Birb Yoga. Let's get our stretch on.
I'm in this picture and I love it.
"let copilot help you draft"
"can gemini write that for you"
I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances
"can gemini write that for you"
I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances
May 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm in this picture and I love it.
: takes notes :
May 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
: takes notes :
Listening to "The Serviceberry" while repotting tomatoes and other seedlings in discarded paper cups and thinking about flow, sharing, mutual aid, etc.
March 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Listening to "The Serviceberry" while repotting tomatoes and other seedlings in discarded paper cups and thinking about flow, sharing, mutual aid, etc.
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yellow egg plums, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1939
March 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
yellow egg plums, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1939
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The air is thick with brown dust over central Illinois today as a massive dust storm that originated over the Southern High Plains on Friday sweeps through the Midwest.
March 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The air is thick with brown dust over central Illinois today as a massive dust storm that originated over the Southern High Plains on Friday sweeps through the Midwest.
Wind is big and garlic is up in east central Illinois.
March 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wind is big and garlic is up in east central Illinois.
Watching the dead leaves slowly disappear under snow (finally) and dreaming of my seed order from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
I don't know that we'll get to official criteria worthy of tripping Blizzard Warnings, but I'm keeping an eye on this corridor of winds north of the surface low that sweeps through parts of Illinois and Indiana tonight.
With several inches of powdery snow, I-74 and I-70 corridors should be rough.
With several inches of powdery snow, I-74 and I-70 corridors should be rough.
January 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Watching the dead leaves slowly disappear under snow (finally) and dreaming of my seed order from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
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grapefruits, painted by royal charles steadman, 1920
January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
grapefruits, painted by royal charles steadman, 1920
Make the bed with fresh sheets and go to bed at a reasonable hour or make slightly elaborate cookie dough to chill overnight?
December 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Make the bed with fresh sheets and go to bed at a reasonable hour or make slightly elaborate cookie dough to chill overnight?
James Rebanks crushing it here
There is a lot of talk about ‘food security’…
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-)
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
A food apocalypse is coming
unherd.com
December 24, 2024 at 1:51 AM
James Rebanks crushing it here
Bake yrself something nice. backyardindustry.substack.com/p/for-those-...
For Those About to Bake
I encourage you
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December 7, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Bake yrself something nice. backyardindustry.substack.com/p/for-those-...
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Presents from the Past
A sort of crate digging
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December 2, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Not your usual November in central IL
November 22, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Not your usual November in central IL
It's a bit warm outside and it's been too wet but I'm going to try and plant garlic and daffodils this weekend.
Forecast not favorable otherwise #gardenprobs
Forecast not favorable otherwise #gardenprobs
November 14, 2024 at 3:04 AM
It's a bit warm outside and it's been too wet but I'm going to try and plant garlic and daffodils this weekend.
Forecast not favorable otherwise #gardenprobs
Forecast not favorable otherwise #gardenprobs
I best get to planting the garlic, then
November 5, 2023 at 6:57 PM
I best get to planting the garlic, then
My first post here in the friendly 'Sky is going to be about how much I love standing here at the stove in the kitchen of this small, not-updated house, making soup and excited to dive into a couple of Sylvia Vaughn Thompson books
October 8, 2023 at 11:43 PM
My first post here in the friendly 'Sky is going to be about how much I love standing here at the stove in the kitchen of this small, not-updated house, making soup and excited to dive into a couple of Sylvia Vaughn Thompson books