Garden Tours

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Permalink Reply by chris w on August 2, 2009 at 1:05am

There was a much advertised garden tour near me recently and I did not attend because, like you, I was frustrated with the focu on ornamentals only. I've never heard of a food garden tour but I think that is a great idea.

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Permalink Reply by sharon on August 6, 2009 at 10:42am

Man, I've been going crazy, getting the Community Garden ready for the Edible Garden Tour. I'll let you know how it goes on Sunday. Do you have anything like the 100 mile diet challenge in your area? We do a 50 mile challenge here because there's nothing but trees or ocean past that.

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Permalink Reply by John Walker on August 6, 2009 at 12:19pm

I've been doing a KGI Kitchen garden day tour for the last two years. Thanks for reminding me to get the word out for this year.
Note to Roger, Are you still promoting this?

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Permalink Reply by Urban Oasis Project on August 6, 2009 at 8:21pm

Yes! We had a Miami Food Garden Tour on July 19th, and was a huge success! We carpooled form garden to garden, having made arrangements beforehand with a host at each garden. We took a huge 10 gallon drink cooler filled with allspice tea (from my garden's allspice tree). We had a meal at the end. You can see our website for details: www.urbanoasisproject.org

Good luck!

One thing- it would be good to drive the tour route yourself first so no one gets lost, and make sure there is enough parking.

Melissa

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn on August 7, 2009 at 9:37am

İ was previously a member of a couple of community gardens and we did a couple of garden tours. Our focus was not on the ornamentals but we went to visit permaculture and other community gardens in our area. İt was a great sucess.

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Permalink Reply by marion stewart on August 10, 2009 at 8:52am

Our Tours usually include both food and flowers - most are now growing both and it is fun to see how vegetable and fruit gardening can be incorporated into an overall landscape.

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Permalink Reply by sharon on August 13, 2009 at 9:41am

The Edible Garden Tour went really well. It rained in the early morning, but then cleared up for most of the day. Most of the gardens had about 100 visitors. (I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but this is a small town.) We are already making plans for next year's tour. One idea was that we try to provide a bus to take people to the out-of-town gardens, but I don't know how feasible that would be. Some of the garden hosts were collecting donations, which were given to the Fruit Tree Project. This local group arranges to pick fruit for people who can't or don't want to. The fruit is divided between the tree owners (if they want it), the pickers, and local charities. The main purpose of the Project is to prevent a huge problem with bears coming into town after the fruit if it's not picked. I helped a group pick some gorgeous yellow plums on Tuesday.
Happy harvesting, everybody!

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