Mountain Gardening • Simple Living • Everyday Creativity
Explore real homestead life in the Colorado mountains — gardening tips, thrifting finds, easy recipes, DIY projects, and garden-inspired art.
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Mountain Gardening • Simple Living • Everyday Creativity
Explore real homestead life in the Colorado mountains — gardening tips, thrifting finds, easy recipes, DIY projects, and garden-inspired art.
Seasonal Growing
High-altitude planting guides, cold-hardy flowers, soil improvement, and beginner gardening tips.
DIY Homestead Projects
Privacy hedges, recycled-window greenhouses, backyard builds, and budget-friendly landscaping.
Simple Recipes
Garden-to-table meals, pantry staples, and quick cooking tutorials for busy days.
Garden Art & Creative Projects
Nature-inspired prints, eco-friendly merch, and creative collections that bring the garden indoors.
Thrifting Adventures
Weekly thrift hauls, vintage finds, cleaning tips, and resale stories from Colorado shops.
Videos & Tutorials
Garden tours, recipe shorts, thrift hauls, and DIY demonstrations.
Art & Nature
When the Garden Teaches You to See: Art, Attention, and the Science of Being Outside
When the Garden Teaches You to See: Art, Attention, and the Science of Being Outside There’s a moment that happens every time I walk into the garden.It usually begins with something small — the shift in temperature as I step from shade into sun, the quiet settling of...
Creative Living
Welcome to mybackyard homestead
myBackyardHomestead is tucked away in the high-altitude pines of Colorado, our little slice of heaven that we lovingly call Cheesecake Bear Ranch is more than a home — it’s a living story. A place where creativity, resilience, and nature intertwine. Over the years,...
Recipes
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Mountain Gardening Guides & Seasonal Planting Tips
Learn how to grow a productive garden in challenging mountain climates. From soil prep and companion planting to cold-hardy flowers and privacy hedges, this is where I share my best tips for gardening at high elevation.
Homestead Reflections
The Artist’s Garden: Nature as Muse and Medicine
More than a decade ago, our high-altitude garden in the mountains of Colorado began as a small experiment in growing food and flowers. Over time it evolved into Cheesecake Bear Ranch, a living classroom where art, creativity, and nature meet. Here in the quiet of the...
Flowers
Top Self-Seeding Flowering Plants
Here are a few popular self-seeding plants to consider for your garden: Nasturtiums: These flowers are annuals in most climates, meaning they complete their life cycle in one year.Hardiness Zones: 9-11Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade Sunflowers Nigella...
Spring Bulbs & Fall Planting
Why Growing Strawberries Matters More Than Ever
How a simple garden patch builds memories, community, and a stronger local food system There’s a quiet kind of magic that happens when strawberries grow in your garden. It’s not loud or flashy. It doesn’t announce itself.It shows up barefoot, on a warm day, with...
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