The Woodlands Garden was cancelled last Saturday due to that torrential morning rain storm. But this Saturday is looking mighty nice for a weather-perspective.

Here’s the official announcement from Nancy…

Woodlands Garden, located at 932 Scott Blvd., Decatur, GA 30030, has rescheduled its Second Annual Youth Artist Market for Saturday May 2nd from 11am-3pm. Artists in grades 2-12 will be showcasing the following: jewelry ,dream boxes, embroidered pillows, whimsical sculpture, flower crowns, drawings, photography of Decatur, chalk painted wood pieces, and much more. This event offers a great opportunity for Mother’s Day shopping and will include free gift wrapping for Mother’s day purchases. For more information contact Nancy Martin at 404-373-8165.

Nancy sends along the announcement…

Woodlands Garden invites you to our 2nd Annual Youth Artist Market. This one-day arts event is for kids in grades 2 – 12 to create and sell their own artwork and crafts. The festival will be held in the meadow at Woodlands Garden on April 25th from 11am – 3pm.
Rain date will be Saturday May 2nd.

Deadline to register is April 3rd. Booth rental is $10 for 10’x10’ space You may share space with a friend. All proceeds go to you, or a good cause of your choice.

Pay online at www.woodlandsgarden.org. Click the donate button and fill out the information fields with payment information. In the comments box at the end, put Youth Artist Market. You can also mail a check to Woodlands Garden, P O Box 27, Decatur GA 30031. Please put YAM on the memo line of your check.

On the agenda for tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting, Decatur’s Downtown Development Authority is set to purchase the property at 915 Clairemont Avenue for $695,000 and enter into an agreement with Woodlands Garden, who will make monthly interest-only payments on the property for 18 months.

After 18 months, Woodlands will need to purchase the property or the DDA can sell the property to anyone.

Photo courtesy of Google Maps

Woodlands sends along the details…

It is the last weekend of the Fabulous Birdhouse Auction!

www.woodlandsgarden.myevent.com

YOUTH ART MARKET AND LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, April 27th 11 – 3

 

FIVE HOURS OF MUSIC!

Sunday, April 27th 12 until 5pm

Live music in the Pavilion from five local singer-songwriters:

12 until 1 p.m. –Don Fay

Don has performed at Woodlands with songwriters from the Unusual Suspects group starting in 2009. He plays guitar and slide guitar on steel-bodied resonator.

  

1 until 2 p.m. –George Eckard

George Eckard is a Decatur area singer/songwriter who writes and performs locally, playing original songs and old favorites in the acoustic/folk genre.

2 until 3 p.m. – Jonathan McBee with Barbara Holz
Jonathan McBee is a folk singer-songwriter out of Chicago, now living in Atlanta. Influences are as diverse as Martin Bogen & Armstrong to David Wilcox to Jack Williams to the Beatles.  Barbara Holz, a multi-instrumentalist and singer, is a Mexican-born Spanish interpreter for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with a passion for Latin music. She also has performed at Woodlands with Ron Hutchins as the musical duo BRiSA.

3 until 5 p.m. – Allison Adams and Billy Gewin
Billy Gewin and Allison Adams, both singer-songwriting fixtures on the Atlanta area scene for more than a decade, present two hours of their original songs (with a few fun covers thrown in for good measure). Allison and Billy sing together and take turns backing each other up on their up on their originals on guitar, mandolin, bass, and ukulele.

Ever since the Morse family handed over 7.2 acres of land over to the Decatur Preservation Alliance in 2002, the endgame for what would soon be called “Woodlands Garden” was to become it’s own independent entity.   This year, that goal became a reality.

According to a note from DPA Board Chair Stephan Swicegood, Woodlands Garden was granted non-profit status and on September 30th the Decatur Preservation Alliance transfered title of the Woodlands property to Woodlands Garden of Decatur, Inc.

Asked about the future of the DPA, Mr. Swicegood told DM…

DPA will live on. For many years now, we have produced (with help) the MLK Service Project that happens around the MLK holiday each January. DPA is the legal and financial entity responsible for the event. With Woodlands on their own, we’re excited about being able to put more time and resources into making MLK an even more successful event.

…our plan going forward is to operate as an all-volunteer organization, which means the maximum amount of our financial resources can go to those we are serving through the MLK project.

For those new to Decatur, the DPA was created back in 2001 to help save the old Decatur Depot from demolition.  (In fact, I just found their old “Help Us Restore the Decatur Depot” website if you’re looking for a blast from the past)  With help from city staff, the org raised over $100,000 to move the Depot just a few feet away from the railroad tracks and took possession of the building from CSX.

Susan sent in the details for a relaxing Sunday afternoon at Woodlands…

Music in the Garden This Sunday!

Don Fay and George Eckard of “The Unusual Suspects” acoustic musicians

October 25 ~~ 2 to 4 p.m. Woodlands Garden ~~ 920 Scott Blvd., Decatur 30030

Woodlands volunteer guides on site. Maps and student educational booklets available if you prefer to tour on your own. Bring your friends and family, but please leave Fido at home.

Woodlands is open the last Sunday of every month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Sundays in the Garden for the remainder of 2009 are Sunday, November 29, and Sunday, December 27

I really want to call this event “Get Soused With Walter”, but I’ll refrain…except for that one time.

From the Decatur Business Association newsletter…

Join Decatur Preservation Alliance for Woodlands, Walter and Wine featuring Georgia’s Favorite Gardener Walter Reeves on Great Garden Disasters!

Sunday, September 20 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Woodlands Garden, 920 Scott Blvd., Decatur 30030

Wine tasting and light hors d’oeuvres, $45/per person ($30 tax-deductible)

Purchase event and raffle tickets by September 15 online, by mail, with check payable to Decatur Preservation Alliance (designate “WG Event”), P. O. Box 1764, Decatur, GA 30031 and pay at the door with advance reservation required, call 404-371-4444.

Parking is available at “The Brownstones at Decatur” town homes across from Woodlands on Scott Blvd.

Purchase a chance to win a consultation with Walter at your metro-Atlanta home garden, a hands-on plant propagation class for you and a few friends at Woodlands with “plant whisperer” George de Man, and gift bags with Woodlands t-shirts and note cards plus a bottle of wine.

Raffle tickets are $5 (no limit) and you do not have to be present to win. Sponsored by Decatur Package Store and The Cook’s Warehouse and Sherlock’s Wine Merchant.

Tickets are available online HERE.