Go Green Wilmette organizes a Sustainable Yard Tour (formerly called Alternative Yard Tour) each summer highlighting yards that work hard managing storm water, producing healthy organic food, composting food and yard waste, and providing critical native habitat for birds and beneficial insects.
Local gardeners share their passion, experience, and wisdom, and each yard features creative, beautiful and practical ideas that visitors can put to use to make their own yards more sustainable.
Participants are encouraged to bicycle from one featured yard to another using suggested bike route maps. This annual event takes place on the 3rd Sunday in July. Details for each year’s tour can be found on our calendar.
