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
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,...
Creative Living
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...
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
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Flowers
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Spring Bulbs & Fall Planting
Marigolds and Memories
This upcoming growing season, marigolds won’t just live in the borders or tuck themselves between vegetables. They’ll play a central role in our cut flower story. Marigolds are true cut-and-come-again flowers, which makes them ideal for a small, intentional bouquet...
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