The 21st Annual People Place Society Garden Tour is Saturday June 7, 2025, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We have eight fabulous gardens this year. Including a new indigenous garden, a school garden, and several gardens in the East Hill, Coldstream and Tronson Road.
The garden tour is our major fundraiser for the year.
We have plenty of volunteers, but we can always use more. We are seeking more artisans and musicians for the event as well. Volunteers help with a morning shift or afternoon shift, at a selected garden. Some garden hosts prefer to be in the background, while others like to talk about their garden, and take people on the tour themselves. Generally, it’s a self-guided tour, but volunteers and garden hosts are in abundance.
The tickets are now available at the ticket sellers. Please note Briteland has now been sold to the Rusty Spur Farm & Pet. The tickets were printed prior to the sale, and they will sell tickets like Briteland did.
The tickets this year are again $20 each and very reasonable.
People Place is a non-profit society. Our building is home to several non-profits such as BrainTrust Canada Association, ConnectAbility Okanagan, Community Foundation North Okanagan (CFNO), several offices of Canadian Mental Health Association such as CMHA Family Support, CMHA Housing, and CMHA Work BC, and more, and FASD Okanagan Valley Assessment & Support, Independent Living Vernon, John Rudy Health and Learning Disabilities Association, and Okanagan Advocacy & Resource Centre, and more. Proceeds will support the People Place-we provide affordable office and program space to non-profit agencies.
We will have volunteers checking tickets and taking cash by ticket holders for a chance to win gift baskets by donation and entry at each location. They can also win a beautiful spring quilt by raffle donation. There will be musicians and artisans, percentage off at Easthill Eatery and Friesen’s Countrytyme Garden. Please note Gumtree Catering/Rail Trail Café owners are buying Easthill Eatery and are honouring the percentage off, but there may be a name change by the end of May.
We ask that ticket holders bring cash for donations for a chance to win the various gift baskets and quilt raffles by donation.
For more details you can reach us at 250-558-6585 or [email protected]
Melanie O’Hara-Hutchinson and Katherine Mortimer
People Place Management
Melanie O’Hara-Hutchinson
General Manager
People Place Society
#101, 3402-27th Ave.
Vernon, B.C., V1T 1K9
250-558-6585
[email protected]
We acknowledge that our workplace is within the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.
