2024 East Side Garden Walk Registration Now Open!
Want to show off the garden you love? It's easy! No entry fees, no fancy rules, no site visits or judging. East Side Garden Walk is more than a garden tour! During the Walk, garden lovers experience Buffalo's East Side treasures. Sharing nature stories creates community connections among gardeners, neighbors and visitors.
Who can sign up? Your garden needs to be in the footprint (see map). Your garden doesn’t need to be perfect or professionally landscaped, just warmly reflect your love! Even flower pots and hanging baskets on your front porch are welcome. You can sign up for one or both days.
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.
About the East Side Garden Walk
The East Side Garden Walk (ESGW), begun in 2018, encourages visitors and neighbors to walk, drive, or bike Buffalo’s East Side, learning about the resilience and creativity of this community. Visitors meet its gracious gardeners, experience its historic neighborhoods and wide-ranging architecture.
The 75+ featured gardens are an eclectic mix of private homes, community gardens – even some urban farms – with participating gardeners ranging from school children helping in outdoor classrooms gardens to senior citizens, and everyone between. The free, self-guided walk encourages community revitalization and the beautification of the East Side one neighbor at a time. Equally important are the conversations among gardeners and visitors that bridge notions of differences.
The ESGW is an event of Gardens Buffalo Niagara, benefiting from this not-for-profit’s reach into all-things-gardening in the region. The ESGW also works with other organizations including Grassroots Gardens WNY, The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission, as well as organizations including None Like You and Buffalo Olmstead Parks Conservancy, among others with related missions of gardening, education, and public art. The East Side Garden Walk, through its partnerships, is making a difference in neighborhoods by building on the already strong sense of community. It is also changing the perception of Buffalo’s East Side, helping to enhance community pride, recognition, and investment.
Come explore Buffalo’s neighborhoods - Masten Park, Willert Park, Emslie, Lovejoy, Emerson, Schiller Park, Grider, Cold Springs, the Fruit Belt, Larkin, Hamlin Park, Kensington, Leroy, Lasalle and many more.
Visitor Information
HOURS
10am-4pm, rain or shine. If you see a sign out before 10am, or after 4pm, you’re still welcome.
MAPS
Maps are available before the walk at sponsor locations, the ESGW Juneteenth Booth, and 9 downtown Buffalo Public Libraries.
PARKING
Parking is along city streets, and is readily available very near most gardens.
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CO-CHAIRS
Samantha White & Renata Toney
Sponsorship Opportunities
Now in its sixth year, the Walk encourages visitors and neighbors to walk, drive, or bike Buffalo’s East Side, learning about the resilience of this community. Sponsors have to support community building through gardening on the East Side! Supporters like you make this important work possible.
The 2023 Children’s Garden Festival took place on Sunday, October 8 from 2-5pm in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. The event was co-presented by the Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
