Brentwood residents Angela and Marc Adler, for the second year in a row, will be on the Sustainable Backyard Tour, taking place June 22. The Adlers’ backyard has chickens, bees, vegetables, herbs, berries, and apple, fig, peach, plum, apricot, and Meyer lemon trees, according to St. Louis Magazine.
Following last year’s tour the Adlers were inspired to start their own heirloom seed company, Seed Geeks.
While the Adler’s backyard will again be on the tour, organizers are looking for more people to open their yards for the day to keep things interesting as well as to give past hosts a break.
“We have a few charter hosts, who’ve been generous enough to be on tour every year, but we always want new yards to show that these things can be done anywhere,” tour founder Terry Winkelmann said.
“Practices like homesteading and edible landscaping are spreading into every neighborhood and municipality—we want to find the trailblazers so we can shine a light on their efforts,” he said.
More than 80 families have welcomed tour goers into their yards over the past three years, demonstrating such practices as composting, organic gardening, chicken and beekeeping, native plant landscaping, rainwater conservation, renewable energy production and backyard habitat creation.
See more information about being a host backyard for the Sustainable Backyard Tour, June 22.