Jun 27 2008
Great Idea for the Tourism Bureaus: Massive Garden Walk
Marty Hair, the garden writer for the Detroit Free Press, has an AWESOME idea. He blogs about Garden Walk Buffalo. City residents open 300 gardens for the annual late-July event. It attracts 10,000 visitors to the city.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/BLOG30/80625086/1118/RSS
Personally, I think that four summer events should be on every community’s schedule: 1) a downtown car cruise, 2) a massive, community-wide garage sale, 3) a massive garden show, and 4) a city-wide backyard campout.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. Just do what everybody does. Do it BIG. And do it well.
Garden Walk Buffalo attracts closer to 50,000 or more people, not 10,000. I had just under 2,000 in my yard alone this past weekend during the Walk!