Outdoor Living

With outdoor kitchens, cooking is part of the party.

How St. Louis Park is staying relevant, healthy and attractive to current and new residents.

Get your Creole on at a lake–inspired summer party.

This century-old residence welcomes holiday visitors with festive decor outside and in

Located in Somerset, Wisconsin, St. Croix Valley Trees is the perfect place to find the Christmas tree to make your home merry and bright.

In the midst of the autumn harvest, we join cookbook author and Food Network star Amy Thielen for a Minnesota supper.

Shoreview is an established suburb that prides itself on stability—careful planning, development and continuity.

Biota helps transforms a small Minneapolis backyard into a paradise for gardening, meditating, and relaxing.

Yum! Just take a quick look at what the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum has in store for its Spring Flower Show and your taste buds ignite and nose twitch with delight. Fragrances of Spring: Essence of...

Sandy Lester, a University of Minnesota Master Gardener, walks us through her beautifully planted and tended to garden in Plymouth.

Your food prep for your outdoor summer get-togethers has never been easier thanks to this variety of grill gear at HomeGoods. A Touch of Class Feel fancy with glassware (eh, plasticware?) fit for royalty. Your guests...

Photos courtesy Southview DesignThe scene is set for summer in the cities: Play it safe and avoid exposing yourself and your family members to COVID-19 by staying home and enjoying your front and back...

Photos provided by Mary Ellen BeckerLast year, the volunteers of the Hennepin County Master Gardeners decided to put their spring tour online. The virtual tour was a smashing success, and it’s happening again this...

 Many homeowners today seek a stronger connection with nature and the outdoors, and considering the many Ps—patios, porticos, pavilions, porte cocheres, and porches, for instance—there are myriad ways to blur the boundaries between indoors...

Warmer weather means it’s time to fill those gardening beds with juicy tomatoes and plump squash. It may seem like a no-brainer to sequester these vegetables together, but is it? This year, ditch that...

Photos by Jenna WeilerTim and Ann Keenan’s Edina backyard is unusually secluded for a city lot. Adjacent to a hill and bordered by trees, it seemed to be the perfect place to enjoy Minnesota...

“No more lawns,” Breanna Robles answers enthusiastically, when asked the number-one thing homeowners can do to make their landscapes more sustainable. A landscape designer with Studio Zewde based in Harlem, and a 2021 judge...

Minimalist modernism of the award-winning Minneapolis landscape architecture firm, Coen + Partners, is in high demand.

Curated by Mary SubialkaSummer certainly wouldn’t be the same without the thirst-quenching goodness of watermelon. And with the end of summer in sight, it’s the perfect time to try something different beyond just slicing...

Gardening has long fulfilled many needs, desires, and functions—whether as an art form, food source, or a way in which to build community. Now, as Des Moines-based artist Jordan Weber is illustrating, a garden...