Garden Journal

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A Backyard Worth Wandering: Building a Retreat Behind Woodmont Boulevard

Behind the traffic on Woodmont Boulevard sits a backyard designed for wandering. What began as a long, narrow lawn is now a family landscape filled with garden beds, winding paths, a fire circle, and a tiny A-frame hideaway at the edge of the woods. Step inside and explore a garden built for curiosity, play, and the kind of childhood memories that stick.

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Garden Tour: Reducing the Overwhelm on a New Family Homestead

It’s easy to feel decision fatigue when getting started on a family homestead. There are so many new things to learn— the garden? chickens? how to compost? But in this new garden tour, Lauren and Jerod took the plunge, purchasing a greenhouse, coop, and shed before they had a fully fleshed out plan. With a little help from TKG, the end result was a beautifully integrated garden.

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