After taking a year off, Sustainable Ballard’s popular Edible Garden Tour is back, happening Saturday, June 29th.
The self-guided tour will take participants to more than a dozen gardens all over Ballard, with an aim to educate and inspire people to grow their own food. You’ll see creative uses of parking strips, raised beds, bee houses, chicken coops, goats, fruit trees, and berries, all within walking distance of central Ballard.
“This year’s tour features awkward space gardening, some fruit-heavy gardening, low-waste gardening for renters, container gardening on a garage roof, parking strip gardens, garden art, a late start garden and even a tomato trough,” Sustainable Ballard tells My Ballard.
“Gardeners will be on hand to share their experience – the good, the bad and the ugly.”
The tour will cost $10 and is open between 10am and 3pm, with the start at Trinity Church (6512 23rd Ave NW), where they’ll hand out maps. Kids and Sustainable Ballard members will be able to take the tour for free.
For more info, visit Sustainable Ballard’s website about the event.
![](https://www.myballard.com/wp-content/uploads/My-Ballard-ad-1.png")
![](https://www.myballard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-My-Ballard-Tile-Ad-Troop-100.png")
I think we’ve all seen MANY MANY creative uses for parking strips around Ballard.
What a fantastic idea: turn wasted street parking into raised planter beds! And people say you bring no value to the blog comment section…
Hey, and we can use all your bad takes as fertilizer. Don’t say I didn’t try to help!
Universal composting, fantastic idea! You’re just killing it Bucky!