The creator introduces the first episode of her 'Backyard Living' series, explaining her strategy for creating an irresistible outdoor environment for her family. She focuses on the fire pit as a foundational element, detailing how the entire process—from sourcing and chopping wood to gathering around the fire—encourages significant, quality time outdoors. She showcases her children's involvement, discusses the social benefits, and offers alternative fire source ideas for different backyards, concluding with a teaser for the next episode.
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spending every week this fall dropping a new video where i’m showing you guys how we’re orienting our lives around the outdoors vs the indoors.
my golden rule: the more set-up your fire requires, the more it naturally invites everyone to be outside.
our fire pit is about a 3-4 hour process from start to finish if it includes finding wood, chopping, lighting, and then enjoying it until it’s ready to burn out for the night.
what kind of fires are you guys using in your backyard?
Transcript
This is how I'm creating an irresistible backyard environment where my kids, I don't even have to convince them to go outside. This is episode one of my whole series I'm doing this fall on moving your indoor lifestyle to the outdoors. The outdoors, even in the colder months, is how we maintain our vitality as humans. So let's get into it with my first staple. That's gonna be a fire, kind of an obvious first choice here because of the warmth. And if you're looking at this, you're like, I can't build a fire pit in my backyard. Hold on. I'm gonna tell you about the different fire sources that we use. The one thing that's important to keep in mind here is that the bigger prep required, the more time you will be required to be outdoors. So it's kind of a nice better for your kids, especially if you can have some sort of a wood burning fire. My kids will do everything from finding the wood or my husband will saw the good. They will chop the wood. We start them with a stabilizer when they're young. And then as they grow up, they're able to take full swings and be able to prep the wood themselves. We build this daily. And not only is it a place of warmth, we better. We tell stories. We eat dinner around the fire. We invite over our neighbors, we pop popcorn, we roast marshmallows, and we sit there until the sun goes down. We built this ourselves. Other options for fires would include, you know, a smokeless fire table. We have one on our deck. A cast iron fire pit for cooking and grilling, tiki torches, even a collection of candles on a table outdoors. So this is our setup. It requires three or four hours outside every single time that we are prepping a fire. So again, that's more than almost four times the amount than the average kid is spending outside in the side in the fall. So that lays the foundation for my first staple. Stay tuned for episode two next week.
