Get ready for a jam-packed day of garden-peeping: find out how your neighbors are harvesting honey and plotting produce aisles in their backyards! Dirt mag’s annual Kitchen Garden Tour returns Sunday, August 3, 2025 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

🌽 CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE: You buy your tickets. We give you a map. Between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., you and your crew take a self-guided tour of local kitchen gardens in the Black Dirt, West Milford, and Skylands regions. You choose your route.

🍆 AFTER PARTY: After touring the gardens, everyone meets up at for farm-to-table after party at Meadow Blues from 5-7 p.m. to enjoy live music, and locally crafted hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine (all included in the ticket price).

🍅 CELEBRATE: Everyone votes for their favorite gardens and prizes are awarded to the winners. We all celebrate.

Just picked up gardening this year? Been growing your favorite fruits and veggies in your backyard for decades? We love them all. Enter your garden to be a spot on this year’s tour today!

When you purchase tickets, we will email you a map of the gardens 24 hours before the event. Read the descriptions, take a look at the photos and the locations and map yourself a route. Your ticket purchase gets you access to the self-guided tour and the after party, complete with farm-to-table beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres.