The Brooks Garden
The garden at Brooks is not a backdrop. Across two acres and twelve distinct spaces, insectaries, kitchen beds, chickens, beehives, and native hedgerows work as one system, hand-tended on the same biodynamic practices as our estate vineyard. What grows here reaches your table in the tasting room and shapes the health of the vines just up the hill. Come see how it fits together, then follow the season with us month by month.
The garden is also a gathering place. Workshops, festivals, and after-dark tastings run through the season. See what’s coming up →
Brooks Garden:
Self-Guided Experience
Begin with a glass of wine of your choice from our by-the-glass menu, then set off to explore our magical two-acre biodynamic gardens with our beautifully illustrated self-guided map. Wander through twelve distinct garden spaces; from vibrant insectaries and productive kitchen gardens to our peaceful Secret Garden, where you’ll find a shady place to relax and take in sweeping views of the Willamette Valley.
Along the way, discover how our gardens, vineyard, chickens, beehives, and native habitats work together as one living ecosystem. It’s an opportunity to experience Brooks beyond the glass and see firsthand how biodiversity, farming, and hospitality are woven together across the estate.
Your beautifully illustrated keepsake map, created in collaboration with our Estate Sustainability Director, Shannon, and the Brooks design and hospitality teams, is part field guide, part work of art, and yours to take home as a reminder of your visit.
Please Note, this is not a seated tasting experience but a self guided tour in our garden space. $15 per guest (member discounts apply).
Keep Wandering:
Notes from the Garden
The garden keeps going long after your visit ends, and Shannon writes it down every month. Her column follows what the season asks for: cool-season crops going into the ground, dahlias deadheaded, figs and blackberries ripening, and the quiet observations that come from tending two acres by hand.
Read the latest ‘In the Garden‘ to see what is blooming, what we are harvesting, and what goes in next. New posts arrive monthly on our blog, alongside wine pieces from our team on pairing, aging, decanting, and choosing a bottle you will actually love.
Meet Shannon Mayhew,
Estate Sustainability Director
Shannon shaped the gardens you walk through. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Plant Science from UC Davis with a concentration in sustainability and biodiversity management, and she puts that training into two acres of hand-tended ground: pollinator meadows, composting systems, and native hedgerows that keep the estate in balance.
Before Brooks, she lived and worked on farms across Europe, learning everything from permaculture to winemaking. Today she leads garden tours and workshops, teaches guests what she is seeing week to week, and writes her monthly column from the garden.
Ask her what to drink and she will point you to fresh raspberries from the garden with our Orchard Field Riesling.