By Home food gardens, highlighting different approaches to organic food gardening, will be featured in a June 23 tour of five back yards in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View.

The five home gardens will emphasize different organic techniques, such as composting, mulching, non-toxic pest control and companion planting. One gardener will show how he changed older landscaping to create a food garden, choosing appropriate locations for vegetable beds and selecting new fruit trees. Another will demonstrate use of a compost starter made of microorganisms such as yeast and beneficial bacteria.

Organized by the Valley of Hearts Delight project, the tour begins at 9 a.m or 1:30 p.m at the Foundation for Global Community, 222 High St., Palo Alto. Participants will carpool to the sites, and will receive a resource packet to help them get started growing food organically.

Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 the day of the tour. For more information, call Debbie Mytels at 328-7756, ext. 608.