Hood River Heights 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 first Hood River Heights Front Yard Garden Tour!

Walk, bike, roll, or stroll your way through neighborhoods of the Hood River Heights 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 and bathrooms):

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 3rd and Friday, September 6th as well as the garden sites on the day of the tour.

The 2024 Front Yard Garden Tour features 11 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, Dirt Hugger, Thrive, and Arts in Education.

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.

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