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Garden-centric community change - beautifying and showing off Buffalo Niagara with events like:

 

Garden Walk Buffalo

Saturday & Sunday, July 26 & 27, 2025
More than 60,000 visitors from the U.S., Canada, and beyond will explore more than 300 gardens on for America’s largest garden tour.

East Side Garden Walk

Saturday & Sunday, July 19 & 20, 2025
Visitors and neighbors walk, drive, or bike—enjoy the creativity of this community. Meet its gracious gardeners and experience its historic neighborhoods and wide-ranging architecture.

Open Gardens in July

Thursdays & Fridays, for select hours, for three weeks in July, 2025.
OPen Gardens turns 15 in 2025! Explore nearly 100 exceptional gardens, throughout Erie and Niagara Counties, at your own pace. No gardens will be open on July 4 & 5.

Garden Art Sale

Saturday & Sunday, June 28 & 29, 2025
Need something unique and/or handmade to complete your garden? Visit the grounds of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens for more than 50 vendors of nature-themed items or works that can be displayed in a garden setting.

Urban Farm Day

Saturday, August 16, 2025
Free, self-guided, and featuring 20+ urban farms discover our region’s blossoming urban agricultural community and food system partners with tours, workshops, demonstrations—and shopping!

Conservation Day

Saturday, July 12, 2025
A gathering of conservation organizations and a butterfly release during the Elmwood Village’s Farmers Market on Bidwell Parkway.

Group Tours

Garden groups and bus tour operators—bring your group to America’s largest garden tour! Let us help you plan your tour. Whether you visit during Garden Walk Buffalo, or any time other during garden season, we can help with garden visits and accommodations.

Marvin Lunenfeld Beautification Grants

Named for Garden Walk Buffalo founder, Marvin Lunenfeld, the grant program has provided more than $150,000 for 200+ beautification projects for block clubs and community groups throughout the city of Buffalo.

Shop!

Check out our line-up of branded garden books, decor, home goods, jewelry, posters and accessories—perfect for the gardener that has everything and needs more!

 
 

“I tell everyone I meet what a world class garden city Buffalo is… Beautification there truly feels like a community project and I don't think that I have experienced that type of commitment in any other major U.S. city. What a special place, with special people, who have curated the most special gardens.”

Abra Lee, horticulturalist, writer, and historian, Atlanta, GA
Author of Conquer The Soil: Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country’s Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers (Timber Press, forthcoming in 2025)

 
 
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IMPACT

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Gardens on view throughout Buffalo Niagara this summer.

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Garden Walk Buffalo attendees every year!

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Estimated economic impact of Garden Walk Buffalo alone.

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Marvin Lunenfeld Beautification Grants granted since 2005.

 

 

Featured
Meet Our First Executive Director
Meet Our First Executive Director

A familiar face is getting her close-up! Garden Buffalo Niagara’s inaugural executive director, Audrey Clark, starts her new role this month. We sat down with Audrey to talk about gardening in Buffalo, her plans for the organization in the year ahead, and how her previous experiences at the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor and as GBN’s only staff member helped her develop her vision for community change.

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A Blossoming Movement
A Blossoming Movement

“I tell everyone I meet what a world-class garden city Buffalo is,” boasts Lee. “Beautification truly feels like a community project, and I don’t think that I have experienced that type of commitment in any other major U.S. city. What a special place, with special people, who have curated the most special gardens.” — Abra Lee, Horticulturist, Historian and Author; Atlanta, GA

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Aitina Fareed-Cooke: Buffalo's Poetic Visionary and East Side Garden Walk Storyteller
Aitina Fareed-Cooke: Buffalo's Poetic Visionary and East Side Garden Walk Storyteller

Through her company, Get Fokus'd Productions, she has collaborated with Gardens Buffalo Niagara to produce stellar videos blending stunning visuals with insightful narratives that bring the East Side Garden Walk to life.

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A thank you message for all gardeners, volunteers, donors, sponsors and friends of the East Side Garden Walk
A thank you message for all gardeners, volunteers, donors, sponsors and friends of the East Side Garden Walk

Thank you to all the gardeners, volunteers, sponsors, and visitors in 2023. Enjoy this video created for you by the East Side Garden Walk and Get Fokus'd Productions. “Walk with us on the east side of our dreams pull up the weeds that suffocate growth and watch us spring forth…”

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𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐒! Sell your handcrafted garden art-related treasures on the front lawn of the Buffalo Botanical Gardens on Saturday & Sunday, June 28 & 29. Your items for sale, in any medium, must be works that can be displayed
A market garden on 4000 sq ft of growing space on a small residential backyard, Isle View Produce, one of the 18 urban farms featured on Urban Farm Day. (Photo by @jayjingehu )
Do you have or know a garden that could be part of Open Gardens WNY (on Thursdays and Fridays in July before Garden Walk Buffalo)? Submit a request before August 11, 2024, and our team will pay a visit to discuss details. Request here https://www.gar
Urban Farm Day on Saturday, August 17. Free, no tickets required, and open to all.
Lost and Found: A visitor left this at a garden on Manchester Place on garden walk Sunday. Please message us to verify and retrieve.
A message from a first-time Garden Walk Buffalo participant, on Clarendon Place. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them” - Henri Matisse (Photo by @jayjingehu )
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