2026 Corrales Garden Tour
This year’s tour will feature five properties that offer helpful approaches to sustainable growing in our challenging environment. Sandoval Extension Master Gardeners will be on-hand at each property to talk with you about specific sustainable features. In addition, there will be experts available to answer questions about topics such as integrated pest management and creating wildlife habitats. During the tour there will be talks on topics such as soil health to provide more information about sustainable growing. New this year for tour goers will take home a booklet featuring helpful articles about sustainability as well as property descriptions.
Welcome! You have exclusive access to details about each of the properties, as well as their sustainable features. You will also be able to view a list of participating businesses who will be offering special discounts to ticket holders on the day of the tour! Let this page be your guide, and feel free to return here during your tour for more information.
Site locations: Click on an address below to open Google Maps Navigation
Navigate by clicking the button to open a map of all properties, or click the address next to the property of your choice to bring up directions in Google.
South Tour Locations
1 Smart Watering: 1413 W Meadowlark Ln
2 Outdoor Living: 28 E Meadowlark Ln
3 Parenthetical Farms: 439 W Ella
4 On the Bosque: 591 E Ella
North Tour Location
5 Fantasies Garden: 107 Calle Contenta
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Smart Watering
1413 W Meadowlark Ln
Depending on how it is used, a Corrales acre can provide so much – outdoor gathering spaces, places to play, areas to grow food for the family, and plantings that provide shade and hospitality for pollinators and for wild birds. Over time, our property has grown to provide all these functions. Part of what has made this possible is the use of smart-watering technology combined with watering innovations that make the most of what is possible while staying conscientious about water usage in our increasingly dry desert environment. Read More
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Outdoor Living
28 E. Meadowlark
This is an older property that has been lovingly cared for. There are two large lots – one is for the horses with barn and pasture. Old stock troughs are used for raised beds of pollinator plants. Lavender plants cover the septic area and Bermuda grass covers the leach field. Lots of pollinator plants including ones chosen to host those parasitic insects that prey on flies (this has eliminated the fly problem typically found around horses). Read More
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Parenthetical Farms
439 W. Ella
This is a residential acre that contains a farming space that is less than half an acre but intensively planted. Ben Dickerson sells his produce at the Corrales Growers Market and he always has plenty of vegetables for sale. He is a no till practitioner concerned with soil health. Ben is highly knowledgeable and loves to share his knowledge. Read More
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On the Bosque
591 E. Ella
Two-acre property with two newly constructed homes and developing landscape that feature bee hives, raised beds for vegetables (on drip), pollinator plants, and fruit trees. A meadow is under construction following design inspiration of Piet Oudolf (swaths of native grasses and perennials concentrating on plant structure throughout the seasons). Read More
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Fantasies Garden
107 Calle Contenta
Plants were selected for the Spirit Garden that had shallow roots because the leach fields are under that area. Uncaptured rain is designed to flow into the stream beds on the east and north, ending in the drain where the Shaman stands at the corner of the Spirit Garden. Read More
Resources and Readings
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The Sandoval Extension Master Gardeners (SEMG) are trained by New Mexico State University horticultural specialists and instructors under the guidance of Sandoval County Cooperative Extension Service. SEMG is a volunteer organization committed to providing better gardening techniques to the community with the latest, most practical horticultural information available.
The Sandoval County Master Gardener Program began in 1995. There are 11 counties in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation Extension Service with active Master Gardener programs.
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