Hosting Garden Tours - Spreading the Love and Sharing your Achievements

Gardening - successes and failures are all part of growing flowers, fruit, and vegetables in a journey towards self sufficiency.  This is the place demonstrate how to make the world a better place to live starting in your own backyard by changing habits and minds one brain at a time.

No matter how much knowledge we have about gardening, there is always more to learn and more to share.  Inviting friends to our garden is both rewarding and an ego boost.  Knowing that our efforts are appreciated.
This thread is somewhere to post about how to host a  garden tour, and things which will make is a better experience for you, your friends and visitors.

Share your experiences here - what works and what didn't.

In October 2023 and 2024 my wife and I hosted two open gardens.  Thanks to R. Ransom and other Permies, we where able to prepare a party pack with information on cleaners you can eat, hugelkulture, and other useful stuff.
For a few dollars we provided morning tea, with home baked biscuits and slices, as well as home made bread and soup made from vegetables grown in our garden.

We had a couple of presentations on alternatives to conventional  inputs and growing proper soil.  The garden walk, with the explanation of edible weeds and perennial vegetables, was the highlight.  Participants taking home weeds, walking onions, other other vegetables and seed, was very rewarding and heartwarming.  After a small fire which took out 0.2 hectare, we are rebuilding the garden with a view to another open garden this October.  
Thanks to Bettina who has been helping me get back on track while my back mends.

What worked:
Food, garden walk,  discussions, being able to forage, collegiality through common ideas.

What didn't work:
Formal seating arrangement.  I completely forgot to  take any pictures

My experience has been that garden tours very often happen quite naturally. I am always pointing out edible plants to people, and sometimes it snowballs. If someone is over then if they’re interested usually we wander the garden and talk about the things going on.

Edit; mislabelled images

The snowball effect M Ljin describes is how most of mine have happened too. Someone spots something unusual and asks about it, then you're wandering around for an hour explaining comfrey and fruit trees and before you know it you've done an impromptu tour. The informal ones often land better than anything planned because people ask what they're actually curious about rather than following a script.