2025 Hood River Front Yard Garden Tour

Join us in celebrating edible gardening, native plants, pollinators, walkable, bikable, rollable, strollable neighborhoods and the fall harvest season in the second annual Hood River Front Yard Garden Tour!

Walk, bike, roll, or stroll your way through neighborhoods of Hood River as you visit gardens and learn how to transform water-thirsty lawns into more sustainable and nourishing landscapes for humans and pollinators alike! 

Find our garden site map online. (Click on the green flowers within the map for garden addresses as well as information on where to find drinking water, bathrooms, and booths with our partners):

Printed maps will also be available for pick up at the Hood River County Extension Office located at 2990 Experiment Station Drive, Hood River, OR, 97031 between Tuesday, September 2nd and Friday, September 13th as well as the Hood River Library, Waucoma Bookstore and garden sites on the day of the tour.

The 2025 Front Yard Garden Tour features 8 inspiring examples of edible vegetable and fruit gardening, vertical growing, perennial fruit trees and berries, native plants and wildflowers, xeriscaping, terracing, season extension, cover cops, square foot gardening, raised beds, seed collecting and saving, crop rotation, and making use of micro-climates within a yard. Come learn from these novice and seasoned gardeners as well as Master Gardener Volunteers stationed at each garden along the route. Some gardens will also feature outreach tables with our program partners offering activities for youth and adults including Gorge Grown Food Network, Hood River Soil & Water Conservation District, Food Hero, Waucoma Bookstore, and Arts in Education. The Arts in Education booth will feature an art activity for youth and will be stationed at the Sparrow's Perch garden on Eugene Street right next to the Children's Park.

This event will take place rain or shine, regardless of weather. However, if the Air Quality Index (AQI) is above 201, due to wildfire smoke, the event will be cancelled. Check AQI online.

After the tour, please vote for your favorite garden here!

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