Garden Walk Logisitics
How to plan a successful garden walk. Its starts long before the event itself! I. Multitude of participating gardens. A. Our walk in Chicago had 50+ B. Participation is open to anyone. C. Vegetable gardens are great, people appreciate helpful advice in growing their own food D. Having each participating gardener write a short brief on their garden E. People love ponds too, finding out who has one F, 25 gardens to start? Can we get that many? Are there that many? G. Agreeing on a date for the garden. It's summer. People take vacations. Someone is going to miss the walk each year. There was no way around it in Chicago, every year someone was disappointed it was when they were out of town. There we had it anchored to the Village Festival so there was some consistency and no feelings got hurt because it was tied to the event. At a minimum all committee members with part...