Wasatch Community Gardens is excited to host tours at our Campus gardens at 629 East 800 South in Salt Lake City (view our Campus map here). Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff offer tours at our Campus to energize your group about urban organic gardening and to offer valuable tips for growing, harvesting, and eating healthy organic food. You will explore:
- Demonstration Garden - Intensive organic production of a wide variety of warm and cool season veggies
- Edible Perennial Garden and Herb Spiral - Diverse range of berry, fruit, and other perennial crops
- Living Traditions Garden - Cultural and spiritual aspects of our connection with food
- Trial Garden - Drought-tolerant crop experiments using deficit irrigation or dry farming techniques
- Insectary - Attractive flowers and diverse habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators
- High Tunnel and Strawbale Greenhouse - Season extension and green building techniques
These tours are geared toward adults (for youth-related visits, please click here), and last approximately 90 minutes. For a group of 16 people or less, the fee is $100. Larger groups of between 16-30 people will cost an additional $5 per person, approximately. Fee discounts are available to community groups with financial need or non-profit organizations who serve historically marginalized communities.
The Education Program is guided by Wasatch Community Gardens' social justice mission to increase access to healthy, organic, local food for everyone. We seek not only to be better stewards of the land, but also to be better allies with historically marginalized communities, and we invite you to read our Anti-Racism Statement and our Land Acknowledgement Statement.
If you have any additional questions regarding Campus tours, please email christy@wasatchgardens.org.
Please describe the group, its members' existing gardening knowledge base, etc.
Depending on availability, we may be able to host up to 30 people with two guides. If your group is larger than 30 people, we can discuss some potential options.
If your group has a specific interest in addition to the standard tour topic we will explore, please describe above. Examples could include organic pest management, tomato-growing best practices, building healthy soil, etc. We will do our best to accommodate any such requests.
Campus tours are offered Monday-Friday, by request. We will do our best to accommodate your preferred dates and times, but cannot guarantee availability. We will contact you via email to confirm available times as soon as possible after we receive your form.
For events at our Campus,
click here to learn what accommodations we currently offer, including parking for people with disabilities.
I understand that tours are subject to availability and that submitting a request does not guarantee or confirm your visit. A WCG staff member will follow up with you to confirm your group's tour and to process payment.
After clicking "Save," you will see a confirmation screen and your request will be complete. Then please wait for our staff to confirm tour availability and arrange payment!
