For those interested in news about the progress of these sales, the Parkfairfax Native Plant Sale
is gaining
a following. From its modest beginning with just five vendors, this neighborhood sale
now regularly hosts over
ten vendors from four states and draws over 750 attendees.
At the
April 2006 sale, eight vendors sold over 1,500 plants to approximately 500 people, setting
a new record for the
sale! Then, at the April 2007 sale, eleven vendors sold an estimated 2,000
plants to roughly 600 people, setting
another record!
The April 2008 sale set another record for the sale.
Ten vendors sold roughly 2,400 plants to the
over 700 people who came out to the sale!
I
did not get complete sale figures (my fault) for the September 2008 and the April 2009 sales,
but I did people
counts and the turnout for the sale has continued to climb! About 800 people
came to the September 2008 sale.
Finally, well over 800 came to the April 2009 sale, making it our best attended
sale to date!
