Save The Date!
2024 Backyard Tour
June 30, 2024
It’s back! A free, self-guided tour of residential yards throughout the greater St. Louis area—and now St. Charles, too– the Sustainable Backyard Tour showcases a range of green living practices, including low-impact lawn care, composting, using recycled materials, organic gardening, gardening with native plants, cultivating mushrooms, edible landscaping, water conservation, permaculture, renewable energy and more!
Save the date to take the tour! Or consider hosting!
If your low-impact yard is inviting and demonstrates some element of sustainability that the public can learn from, we invite you to consider being a host yard on this year’s tour and sharing your experience with others.
Suitable yards needn’t be perfect, elaborate or even large. As a life-celebrating event, the tour asks only that you commit to organic best-practices and refrain from using pesticides and herbicides. If you have questions about what that means, we encourage you to contact us for more information.
Hosts agree to open their yards from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and interact with visitors. More than 2000 people attend the tour overall—but with dozens of stops to choose from, most yards see closer to 100 guests.
Single family yards, apartment buildings, condos and other residential communities are eligible to host. If you have worked hard to make your yard sustainable, consider being a host.
Keep the Sustainable Backyard Tour free!
Our yearly open-yard tour of eco-friendly spaces is free for anyone to attend. Your donation enables St. Louisans to see first hand how their neighbors practice sustainable living.
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