Spring Native Plant Garden Tour - April 15th, 2012

Help Wanted - The 2012 Tour Needs:

• Publicity Assistant
  Our Publicity Chair does a great job of contacting local news media, but this event is too much for one person. We need a couple of additional helpers to work with her. Major publications like Sunset, Via, and Bay Nature should be notified well before Thanksgiving as to the date of the tour. It would be nice to have someone who could write brief stories that we could make available electronically with photographs as needed to publicize the tour.
• Publicity in Your Neighborhood
  Could you contact your neighborhood newspaper; distribute posters to local libraries and businesses; post flyers on bulletin boards?
• Broader-Based Publicity
  Distribute posters, post flyers, etc. to areas or neighborhoods not adopted by residents. Post notices to your web site or email groups, or ask appropriate organizations to publicize our free native plant garden tour. Email posters or articles to friends, personal groups, etc., and ask them to further distribute.
• Last-Minute Help
  People are needed near the time of the event to take maps, handouts, signs, and other materials to the garden hosts. And, as you know, every project has unexpected needs. These are good jobs for people who can get around town with ease, and have the flexibility to volunteer brief time periods on short notice.
• Co-Hosts
  On the day of the tour, we need people willing to help co-host at a garden site. No, you don't need to know anything about plants or gardening. You do need to be friendly and welcoming, to ask people to sign the sign-up sheet, to offer maps or other free handouts, and to facilitate guiding guests to the person/people showing the garden.
• Interested? Respond to Susan Floore at sfloore@att.net or 415-285-4692 (email preferred). We will see that the information gets to the appropriate people.