Saturday, September 25
9:00 am         Neighborhood Charter School Media Center - Discovering the History of Your Home by Paul Simo
11:30 am       288 Cherokee Avenue - A Beehive in Your Backyard & Honey Tastings - by Joy & Cam Ayers
2:00 pm         548 Robinson Avenue - How to Raise Chickens in Your Own Backyard - by Suzanne Welander

Sunday, September 26
1:00 pm         517 Broyles Avenue - Soil Health & Life by Sean Ihndris
3:00 pm         517 Broyles Avenue - Urban Chicken Chat by Christine Mann
4:30 pm         288 Cherokee Ave - A Beehive in Your Backyard & Honey Tastings - by Joy & Cam Ayers

If history and architecture are what interest you, you can take part in a workshop that teaches you how to uncover the historic secrets of your own older home.

Additional highlights of this 37th annual tour include:

*A 1,000-square-foot shotgun home that looks and lives much larger, thanks to the homeowners' clever fool-the-eye techniques. 

*A quirky charmer whose doors and trim are duplicates of those seen in Dorothy’s Country Victorian house in The Wizard of Oz.

*An "extreme makeover" of a bungalow you'd be hard-pressed to recognize from the original, yet which manages to fit in perfectly with the surrounding homes.

*A totally "green" house that features salvaged wood, solar lighting, recycled water, and its own energy-producing wind turbine – and is so stunning that it is featured in the October issue of This Old House magazine.

The tour will feature 12 homes and three garden-only tours, along with special stops at the former Grant Park United Methodist Church, whose sanctuary now houses an aerial dance studio; and a unit at ENSO, the "green living" luxury apartments being constructed on Glenwood Avenue.

The tour will be held Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 26 from noon-6 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 on the day of the tour. They're on sale now at www.gpna.org and at area businesses, including Agave, Dakota Blue, Gardenhood, Grant Central Pizza, Six Feet Under, and Intown Healthy Hound and City Kitty. On the day of the tour, tickets will be available at a booth at the park entrance at the intersection of Cherokee and Milledge Avenues.

Proceeds benefit the Grant Park Neighborhood Association, which uses the funds to support local schools, civic groups, and neighborhood improvements. For more information, or to sponsor this year's Tour of Homes, email Chair Gigi Conner at tourofhomes@gpna.org

Contributed by By Sylvia Davis