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Summer Classes and Events. Check out our Program!
Browse & share our Summer Program. For 10 years we have been offering classes on sustainable practices, gardening, homesteading & more. Our classes are small and require advance registration. Click here & view our beautiful Summer line up. To register click on the orange button at the top of our website that says “classes”
Save your Seeds and Share! Free event
Join us and Slow Food Atlanta on August 3 at 10am at the Oakhurst Garden to share tomatoes and learn to save seeds from local experts. Click here for more info!
Beer Garden Event June 22, 2013
Beer Garden – Go Wylde: Summer Kick off in the Oakhurst Garden is a spin-off from the Annual Wylde Center spring fundraiser, Martinis in the Garden, in which hundreds of guests stroll and dance among drink stations, eating great local food is our organizations 2nd largest fundraiser. The beautiful garden is a wonderful backdrop to [...]
Half off plants! Plant Sale Ends June 15
Stop by for a great selection of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, okra, beans, cucumbers, herbs, fruit trees, shade and sun plants plus more! Sale is open every day from sun up to sun down. Self-service model. Please drop payment in the lock box located in the front door. 435 Oakview Road, Decatur. ALL PLANTS ARE [...]
Thank you, Decatur Garden Tour Sponsors!
The gardens soaked up the rain and the visitors soaked up the views. Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor -Simmons | Fouts | Fichtel Architecture And Design for supporting the event. We would also like to thank the following sponsors for their support as well: Lampe-Farley Communications, Natalie Gregory, Garden*Hood, Plant Creative Landscapes, Peter Block [...]
Wylde Center? What does the new name mean?
Wondering what has changed, what has stayed the same since the Oakhurst Community Garden Project name changed to the Wylde Center? Watch this Tin Rooster Media produced video for your answer.
Rats taking over your chicken yard?
Rats are not attracted to your chickens per se, but actually to the availability of food. There are rats in all urban areas, you just don’t generally see them. In fact, among the most attractive things to an urban rat are bird feeders or a compost pile (contact DeKalb Extension for a great leaflet on [...]
A Place for Healing – Oakhurst Community Garden
Meg Pease Oakhurst Community Garden came into my life at a time when I needed it the most. When our first child was delivered stillborn this July after an uncomplicated pregnancy, I thought I might lose my mind in my grief. Some days it was all I could do to get out of bed to [...]
A Place for Discovery – Sugar Creek Garden
Katrina Bergbauer When I learned that a new community garden space had started just across the street, I was so curious to find out how I might get involved. At the beginning, volunteering at Sugar Creek Garden was appealing because I could (1) learn about organic gardening, (2) get to know others in my community [...]