The Outback Blog


Nothing brings people together outdoors like a fire pit.

The evening seems luxuriously longer. Chill? What chill?

Then somebody breaks out the marshmallows, chocolate bars and graham crackers.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Here are 6 important things to consider before adding a fire pit to your landscape:


It’s easy to take water for granted.

There it is, always ready when we need it, flowing from our faucets and spraying out over our green lawns.

Too bad we’re wasting a lot of it, for no good reason.

Experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimate as much as 50 percent of water used for landscape irrigation is wasted.