✶ Backyard camping · Families
The wildest place you own is ten steps from the kitchen.
Yard Nights is about camping in your own backyard: a tent on the grass, supper carried out from the kitchen, flashlight games, a sky you never look at, and the back door right there if anyone wobbles at midnight.
Start with night one Skip to the morning
Seven nights, in order
The first backyard campout
Why the yard beats the campsite for a first night out, and the one promise that makes children brave.
Pitching the tent together
The tent as a family project: where in the yard, who holds what, and why slower is better.
The ten-step supper
Dinner carried out from your own kitchen: the tray method, eating on the blanket, and the cocoa ceremony.
The flashlight hour
Shadow puppets, torch tag, firefly watching: the games that fill the gap between supper and sleep.
The no-telescope sky
What you can honestly see from a backyard — the moon, three planets, one shooting star — and how to look.
Sleeping ten steps from home
Bedding that actually works on grass, the noises the night makes, and the honourable bail-out rule.
The porch-light promise
The back door stays unlocked, the porch light stays on, and anyone can go inside at any hour with full honour. That promise is the whole trick: it's what turns "I'm scared of camping" into "can we do it again tomorrow?"
About Yard Nights