Get ready for a day-long exploration of gardens, urban farms, built spaces, studios, homes, cottages, and community gathering places throughout the village of Cumberland.
The 2024 Cumberland Home & Garden Tour takes place on Saturday June 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In support of the Cumberland Community Forest Society, this fun-filled tour explores ways villagers are conserving and capturing water, going solar, growing food, small-scale farming, exploring permaculture, creating art, raising bees and chickens, creating housing security, making shade, bringing people together, protecting and restoring old buildings, and innovating with modern builds.
Come discover the many ways we respond to cultural, social, environmental, economic and climate change as individuals, neighbourhoods and as a community.
From drought gardens to fire-smart buildings; from cold plunge tubs to bee hives; from food sheds to music venues; and from accessibility to intergenerational living - this tour explores the various methods people turn their houses into homes.
With more than 20 properties featured on this year’s tour, things are shaping up for an exciting day. And with the close proximity to all venues, active transportation is a viable option. Participants can do the entire tour on bikes, or follow the map for a series of “park and walk” locations. Recruit friends and head out in a group.
All proceeds from the annual Cumberland Home & Garden Tour supports the land protection and stewardship work of the Cumberland Community Forest Society (CCFS). For 24 years the CCFS has been purchasing private timber lands and dedicating them to the community as parkland. To date they have secured 545 acres and they’re not done yet.
The 2024 Cumberland Home & Garden Tour is presented with the generous support from Facet Custom Builders, Standing Bear Construction, Commonhouse Design, Megan Trumble Design, HAKAI Energy Solutions, Outback Nursery & Garden Centre, Katrina Kaboly - Royal LePage, British Columbia Fire Smart.
Tickets are on sale now at https://cumberlandforest.tickit.ca/