By Doug Draper
The not-for-profit group from Buffalo that brings our greater Niagara region the largest neighbourhood gardening tour on the continent every year is ushering in spring with the opening of an online store.
Garden Walk Buffalo will use proceeds from the online sale of books, tote bags, hats and other items – just as it always had when the items were sold off tables during the annual July weekend event – to support the event itself and grants that contribute to the beautification of neighbourhoods in the city.
This year’s Garden Walk Buffalo is scheduled for Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25, rain or shine, and is the city’s 16th since a small group of volunteers launched the first one in 1995. The event is free and self-guided, and now features more than 300 gardens at homes, businesses and public park areas stretching north from Buffalo’s downtown area, through the historic Allentown neighbourhood, all the way to Delaware Park.
The Garden Walk not only provides and opportunity to visit great gardens and the people who grow them. It is also a great chance to experience, close up and friendly, so many of the great old neighbourhoods and classic architecture Buffalo has to offer. Niagara At Large will post more on this even, which has already been celebrated in such popular magazines as Martha Stewart Living and Fine Gardening, as the weekend it takes place draws closer.
In the meantime, you can find out more about the new online store and how to visit it, and about Garden Walk Buffalo in general, just by reading the information below.
Garden Walk Online Store is now open for business!
Garden Walk items, usually found for sale only one weekend a year, are now available online – Garden Walk books, caps, embroidered t-shirts, tote bags, posters and magnets. Click on “Online Store” in the menu at www.GardenWalkBuffalo.com or visit: http://www.aepbooktree.com/?org=gardenwalk
Best of all, you can now purchase all past Garden Walk Buffalo color posters!
Posters have been the most-requested items over the years, and reprints are now available at only $10 per poster, or buy the complete collection — the set of eight — for just $70.
Help Garden Walk by buying ANY book at our online store.
You can also purchase nearly any book in print — best sellers, cookbooks, graphic novels, crafts, or gardening — and every purchase supports Garden Walk Buffalo and its neighborhood Beautification Grants — providing grants to block clubs & community groups for beautification projects in the area of Garden Walk. So when you’d like to buy a books, please consider purchasing them through our website to help support Garden Walk!
Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest garden tour in the U.S., is held the last weekend of July each year. In 2010, the free event will be Saturday and Sunday, July 24 & 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 340 residences and businesses throughout the west side of Buffalo open their creative urban gardens for 50,000 visitors from around the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit www.GardenWalkBuffalo.com.
High-resolution, print-worthy, professional photography of Garden Walk Buffalo is always available in the Garden Walk Press Kit, found at www.GardenWalkBuffalo.com.
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