Backyarding means exploring, appreciating and spending time in your own personal patch of nature. Spending time outside in your own backyard reduces stress, improves memory, boosts heart health, and offers a host of other benefits for our minds and bodies.

According to the recent "Yards Study" Harris Poll, more than two-thirds of Americans who have a yard (69 percent) say doing yard work – either maintaining it or adding/updating features – is one of the ways they like to de-stress these days. This is especially true among parents of kids under 18.

Check out this animated video about backyarding.

Spring is the perfect time to get your backyard ready. click here to get messages your yard would tell you if it could talk.