Windham and Windsor Counties, VT Open Day

Windham and Windsor Counties, VT Open Day

Mary & Gordon Hayward's Garden, photo by Gordon Hayward

Sat, Jul 10, 2021

As the pandemic continues to evolve, please observe these new procedures and help us ensure a safe, contactless, and seamless garden experience for all visitors as well as our generous garden hosts:

  • Pre-registration is REQUIRED for each garden. Pre-register for each on this website, except where specifically indicated otherwise. Children under 12 are free and do not need to be pre-registered if accompanied by pre-registered adult.
  • Capacity is limited. Sorry, no walk-ins allowed; no paper tickets or cash payments will be accepted on-site.
  • Masks are required, at the discretion of the garden owners, and social distancing is encouraged at all in-person events.

For more details about these changes for this season, see the 2021 Open Days Q&A.


To register, please click on the garden name or photo below for each garden you would like to visit.

Two nearby events are also happening on this day:
DIGGING DEEPER program: July 10, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Bunker Farm Plants, with Helen O’Donnell, at Bunker Farm in Dummerston, VT. Click on the name of program for a description and to register.

DIGGING DEEPER program: July 10, 5 to 7 p.m., Spirit of Place, with Bill Noble and Susan Howard, at the Garden of Bill Noble in Norwich, VT.  SOLD OUT

Also, on Sunday, July 11, there is a Monadnock County, NH Open Day and another DIGGING DEEPER program, 50 Years in a Garden, a Constant Evolution, with Eleanor Briggs and issima Nursery, at Shatutakee Farm in Hancock, NH, 4:30 to 6 p.m.


  • Rita Ramirez & Tom Bodett
    Rita Ramirez & Tom Bodett

    Rita Ramirez and Tom Bodett’s garden is built around natural cascading pools and a salt-water swimming pool, surrounded by Goshen stonework and abundant gardens…

  • Gordon & Mary Hayward’s Garden
    Gordon & Mary Hayward’s Garden

    Gordon and Mary Hayward's 1.5-acre garden surrounds their 220-year-old farmhouse in southeastern Vermont…

  • Garden of Bill Noble
    Garden of Bill Noble

    Originally a hillside farm with a rambling house, barns, stone walls, and fields, enhanced with views of neighboring farms and distant mountains, the garden has grown...

  • Woodland Farms
    Woodland Farms

    Susan Richter’s gardens-in-progress at Woodland Farms have been evolving for ten years around an oak-and-stone dwelling built to suggest a medieval Anglo-Norman house…

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At the discretion of the garden owners