Sugar Creek Garden & Decatur Community Gardens Profiled
Decatur Metro | October 18, 2010This morning the AJC profiles Decatur’s Sugar Creek Garden in an extensive article about the city’s burgeoning community gardens.
The slender finger of land alongside Sugar Creek, tucked away in Decatur’s southwest corner, is practically invisible from two nearby roads. Sugar Creek itself, with those concrete embankments engineers were so fond of during the 1960s, looks like an open gash.
A leaning, rusted sign post, maybe 30 years old, says “Warning Stay Out” which, to conventional eyes, appears like sound advice. But when Lindsey Mann first scanned this same Sugar Creek vista she saw a virtual Eden.
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Exactly where is Sugar Creek?
Sugar Creek runs west across south Decatur and from Third Ave. onward is a deep, wide concrete flume. Second Avenue crosses it. A tributary of it runs under East Lake (sort of begins as the swampy place in the middle of the dog park), behind Oakhurst Presbyterian Church, between the large drain field area and the backyards of Second Avenue, joining the main channel just before the latter runs under Second.
The garden is behind the Presbyterian Church in the edge of the drain field.
Later on in the article they mention another garden that will be starting up in spring, “several blocks west of downtown Decatur,” organized by Walt Kellar. Does anyone know anything about this? I’d like to find out more.
I think Sugar Creek is on or near 2nd Avenue in Oakhurst, near the intersection w/ East Lake Dr.
I believe this is the one that residents are trying to start up near Oakland.
A representative spoke about it at the commission meeting when they passed the community garden guidelines. It was far from a done deal then. The guy said that if they didn’t have the full support of all the surrounding neighbors, they wouldn’t do it. However, it sounded like they hadn’t encountered any resistance yet.
I think the spot they have in mind is in the same area as the pathway discussed in the connecting neighborhoods thread. Having both together could be really wonderful.