This form is for landowners who are interested in learning more about hosting visitors to their landscape thru West Michigan Open Yards, to be launched in spring 2024. All data provided is kept confidential and nothing will be published anywhere without your express permission.

Should you choose to participate in Open Yards, we will work with you prior to launch to create a website listing for your landscape. Web visitors will peruse your listing along with hopefully dozens of other landscapes each with its own unique features. Interested visitors will register for a specific time slot for each landscape based on each landowner's unique schedule of availability (as set by each of you in advance of the 2024 launch). Registrants will pay a small fee to cover program costs and help support Kent Conservation programs. The registration confirmation email will provide the site address – the only place it will be available.

WMOY is built on a Missouri-based program called St. Louis Open Yards which ran in 2022. The West Michigan program website was converted from the St. Louis program. While some functions are still being tweeked, most all the content has been updated including a dozen sample listings, all of which you can view here.

If this all sounds very exciting, and you want us to reach out to you directly to schedule a site visit to discuss the program further, please complete the survey below.