East Side Garden Walk: Sowing Seeds of Hope

A fundraising campaign for Gardens Buffalo Niagara

Plant the seeds of hope on the East Side today. Thanks to an anonymous donor your gift will be doubled, and you'll see our community bloom!

The East Side Garden Walk is an annual self-guided garden tour that brings visitors who share a love of gardening into the gardens of Buffalo's East Side. But it's more than just a garden tour.  


The ESGW is one way for East Side residents to take control of the narrative for our community. We share our gardens, our stories, and our spirit of perseverance with those from within and outside our neighborhood. The ESGW counters the negative stigma often portrayed on the evening news, by creating positive stories of our home and our neighborhood. We use our love of gardening and community to create connections between gardeners, neighbors, and visitors. 


The ESGW has the potential to transform our neighborhood by providing the spotlight for us to "show out" and by encouraging us to be the change, because this community matters.  

We believe that community activism can also begin with a community garden, which is why the ESGW works with other organizations to raise our neighborhoods up from within. Gardens Buffalo Niagara, our parent organization, provides gardening grants throughout Buffalo and supports a number of East Side beautification efforts, including projects on Fillmore Ave, Jefferson Ave, and in Lovejoy, just to name a few.   

Your contribution of any size will have a huge impact. Thanks to an anonymous donor, your gift will be doubled!  Today we ask you to support the East Side and its gardeners. If making a financial gift isn't an option for you, you can still do so much good by sharing this campaign with others!

You can sow the seeds of hope today,
so that the East Side can bloom tomorrow!



Can you help us spread the word?

October 7, 2020

We're just a few dollars away from our stretch goal of $2,500, with almost 40 incredible supporters standing behind us! Thank you for all of your incredible support. To help reach our goal, we've produced a short video. One way you can help, even if you've already contributed, would be to help us spread the word by sharing.


Watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=364252601395501

Wow! Buffalo! We're announcing a stretch goal.

September 14, 2020

Just a few hours into our campaign, you've shown your incredible support for the East Side and it's creative gardeners. Thank you! Initially, we thought this campaign may cover the cost of designing the event maps, but now we're so excited. Your enthusiasm and energy can take us much further! We're hoping to raise the cost of designing and printing the maps we need for the 2021 walk, so that visitors can see the amazing community East Siders have to offer! 

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