Backyard Industry
Lisa B-Kbuilding backyards better.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 37 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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BYI 2011: Unsettling Weather
This was sobering as hell to listen to and read, 15 years on.
What are we even doing, y’all? We need to talk about it.
Consolation prizes: BYI 2026 garlic crop by the numbers AND a short poem.
WEATHER WHOAS
Original ai...
BYI 2011: Farmstands are Rad
You may (or may not) know that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s got a small-but-mighty fruit, vegetable, and flower farm that’s been in operation since 2009. You also may (or may not) know that, since 2011, the SSF has also ope...
(Still) Imagining Microproduction as the Standard
Seedlings, 2010. (Photo by Lisa B-K)
Before there was Backyard Industry, there was In My Backyard. And immediately before there was In My Backyard, there was this piece.
I had completely forgotten I’d written this. I was even more su...
2025: Rapt
Early December view.
Scene Report: The RESPITE Project
I love my studio. I’m in it right now. I’ve spent many hours out here since my last post, opening and closing windows, writing postcards, putting CDs and tapes into the players, sweep...
Pure RESPITE
[Happy new year! The bulk of this post was written in more or less a single go on a gorgeous October afternoon, a day or two after moving into my studio. Since then, it’s evolved from a gleeful brain dump to one of my personal projects for...
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