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GetBackyarding · AI Can’t Build a Fire
Build the fire
everyone stays for.
Fires that light on one match, grates that cook a whole dinner over open flame, tools made to be handed down — because some things you don’t want automated.
- Free shipping over $99One threshold, everywhere on the site
- Built to be handed downHigh-carbon steel, hardwood, real welds
- Ships from MichiganPacked and sent by the people who own it
- Veteran ownedBuilt around the hours that matter
The complete setup · Ships free
The Complete Backyard Kit
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Everything a backyard fire needs, in one box: the Original Fire Grate with ember catcher as the base, the Stainless Steel Grilling Grate over it, the Stoker Poker® to run the fire, Sure-Fire™ starters to light it, Bonfire Boss™ gloves to work it, roasting sticks for the crowd, and the wool blanket for the last hour. Seven pieces at 20% off — $133.94 under buying apart — with the Fire-Side Chats™ deck inside, on us.
- Walden Original Fire Pit Grate w/ Ember Catcher24" Diameter
- Walden Stainless Steel Fire Pit BBQ Grilling Grate36" Diameter
- Stoker Poker46" Stoker Poker
- Walden Sure-Fire™ Starters
- Walden Bonfire Boss™ Fire Gloves
- Walden Legacy Series™ Classic Extendable Roasting Sticks
- Walden Fireside Wool BlanketsMidnight Blue
- Fireside Chats™ Conversation Starter Playing CardsOn us
Shop by fire
One box. The whole evening.
Every kit costs less than its parts — and every kit ships free.
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The Complete Backyard Kit
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The Fireside Kit
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The Fireside Cooking Kit
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The Fireside Grill Kit
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Ultimate Backyard Lawn & BBQ Bundle
Stoke the fire.
Stay in your chair.
Blow through the handle and your breath travels 46 inches of steel to the coals — through a one-way valve that lets air out and never smoke back. No kneeling. No face full of ash.
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Backyarding®
Bring people back together. That's the whole plan.
Everything we make exists to keep people outside an hour longer than they meant to stay — away from a screen, next to the people who matter.
Shop the kits- Air out, never in
- The one-way valve is the whole trick: your breath reaches the coals, and nothing — no smoke, no ash, no fumes — comes back. Safe for every hand at the fire.
- Steel you hand down
- High-carbon shafts, hardwood handles, welds that outlive trends. Tools built to be someone’s inheritance, not someone’s landfill.
- Free shipping over $99
- One threshold, everywhere on the site. Most kits clear it on their own — the cart shows you exactly how close you are.
The proven ones
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Your Custom Kit
Rather build your own?
Pick three pieces or more and the price drops automatically at checkout — the more you add, the more comes off.
Hear it from those already Backyarding®
More than 10,000 backyards run on Walden steel.
Buying for someone else’s backyard?
Three questions, and we’ll point you at the right gift — sized to your budget, matched to their fire.
Veteran-owned & operated
Built by people who know what the pause is worth
Walden Backyards is a veteran-owned company, founded by Erik May. Military service teaches you what distance from the people you love actually costs — and what it’s worth to close it. Erik built Walden around one mission: bring people back together. Deliberately unfinishable, because there’s always another fire worth lighting.
That’s not a polished brand with a spokesperson. That’s a real person making tools that pull people back to the same fire — steel and hardwood, made to be used hard and handed down, by somebody who means the mission statement.