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A little fresh air, a little creativity, and plenty of reasons to gather. November is looking Wylde! Here's what's happening this month: 🧘 Nov. 4, 18 & 25 | Stretch + Sound at Sundown Yoga with Sonic Yoga and live music at Oakhurst Garden. 6:30–7:30 PM @fmb_move @gas_hound @flpmejia4 💧 Nov. 7 | Green Infrastructure Basics Learn with Southface Institute at Oakhurst Garden. 8:30 AM–2:30 PM @southfaceinst 🌿 Nov. 8 | Nature Therapy Slow down with NorthSouthEast Nature & Forest Therapy at Hawk Hollow. 3–5 PM @juliannemesaric 🌱 Nov. 12 | Green Time All Winter Learn to grow food indoors with Pixels to Petals at Oakhurst Garden. 6:30–8:30 PM @pixelstopetals 🔥 Nov. 14 | S'mores in the Garden Free, family-friendly fun at Edgewood Garden! 4–6 PM 💐 Nov. 15 | Gather & Arrange Create a fall floral arrangement with Nourish Botanica at Oakhurst Garden. 2–4 PM @nourishbotanica 🎃 Nov. 23 | Wylde Day Camp A full day of outdoor adventures, cooking, and creativity for ages 4–10. 8:30 AM–5 PM 🎀 Nov. 24 | Wylde Wreaths Kit Pickup Take the creativity home! Pickup at Oakhurst Garden. 4–6 PM 🌲 Nov. 29 | Wylde Wreaths Holiday wreath decorating begins at the Oakhurst Garden, with more sessions in December! 🎁 Plus, shop locally crafted gifts at the Wylde Holiday Market, November 25–December 13. Save this post, tag your favorite adventure buddy, and find details and registration through the link in our bio! #WyldeCenter #LearnWylde #DecaturGA #AtlantaEvents #GetOutside

Your fall table called. It wants flowers. 🍂💐 Join @nourishbotanica at our Oakhurst Garden for Gather & Arrange, a hands-on floral workshop inspired by the season. We’ll wander the garden to gather flowers and botanical treasures, then pair our finds with autumn florals from Nourish Botanica. Play with color, texture, and shape as you create an arrangement to take home! November 15 | 2–4 PM Wylde Center, 435 Oakview Road, Decatur $35 for Wylde Center members | $40 general admission Signup: Link in Bio! Bring your creativity and a friend who loves flowers. Tag your flower-arranging buddy below, and register through the link in our bio! #WyldeCenter #LearnWylde #NourishBotanica #FloralWorkshop #DecaturGA

When it's too cold to grow outside, bring your garden indoors! With just a mason jar, water, and a few simple supplies, you can grow fresh herbs, microgreens, and leafy greens right on your kitchen counter. Join us at Oakhurst Garden on November 12 at 6:30 pm for Green Time All Winter: Grow Food Indoors Until Spring, a hands-on Learn Wylde workshop with Garrin of Pixels to Petals. You'll discover the Kratky method, an easy, low-maintenance way to grow food without soil, pumps, or complicated equipment. Learn how to get started, choose the right plants, and troubleshoot common growing challenges so you can enjoy fresh greens all winter long. No green thumb required! Register today and bring a little green into your winter > https://tinyurl.com/LearnWyldeIndoorGardening

Full house tonight for @rubyvelle at the Oakhurst Garden for our Music in the Garden series. A big thank you to @snugconcerts for bringing great bands all year long.

Create a small space for a big memory. Join us at Oakhurst Garden for a special Learn Wylde: Día de los Muertos Mini Nichos workshop with local artist and therapist Maria Villarreal. Families, chosen families, and small groups will learn about Día de los Muertos and its traditions of remembrance, connection, and continuity, then create a miniature nicho—a small three-dimensional display inspired by someone, something, or a memory you want to honor. It might celebrate a loved one, ancestor, pet, favorite place, family tradition, or another meaningful part of your story. No special art experience needed—just come ready to create together. Friday, October 17 | 6–8 PM Oakhurst Garden $40 members | $45 non-members per family/group of up to 4 One nicho per group • Geared toward families with children Wylde Center After the workshop, you’re invited to stay for an informal gathering with food, conversation, and a chance to share your creations and stories. Learn more & register at the link in our bio.

Find your perfect pumpkin at the Oakhurst Garden. 🎃 . We are located at 435 Oakview Road, Decatur.

🍂 October is packed at Wylde Center! Learn something new, slow down in nature, make something meaningful, catch live music in the garden, or put your phone away for an evening of creativity and connection. There are plenty of ways to get Wylde this month. 💧 Oct. 13 | Smart Stormwater: Climate Solutions for Your Landscape Discover practical ways your landscape can slow, sink, and store rainwater with Brandy Hall of Shades of Green Permaculture. @shades_of_green_permaculture 🌙 Oct. 15 | Nature Therapy Slow down and tune into the changing season with a guided evening of sensory experiences, grounding practices, and connection in the garden. @juliannemesaric 🧡 Oct. 17 | Día de los Muertos Mini Nichos Gather your family or chosen family and create a miniature nicho inspired by someone, something, or a memory you want to honor. 🌿 Oct. 18 | ReWylding Your Shady Garden Turn those tricky shady spots into thriving habitat with native plants that support birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. 🎶 Oct. 18 | Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics Spend a Sunday afternoon in Oakhurst Garden with the powerhouse soul sounds of Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics for our final Music in the Garden concert of the season. @snugconcerts @rubyvelleandthesoulphonics ✂️ Oct. 20 | Airplane Mode: Make, Mend & Create Put your phone on airplane mode and spend the evening making, playing, and connecting. Explore drop-in maker stations, puzzles, games, sketching, crafts, and more. Which ones are you coming to? Find details and registration on our event calendar at wyldecenter.org.

Hot off the presses - 2026 Wylde Center Impact Report !! This past year at Wylde Center was a homecoming. After a season of renovation and transition, we opened the doors to a brand-new building at the Oakhurst Garden, welcomed neighbors back to all four of our gardens, and had a wonderful year reconnecting with our community. Our new Impact Report is out, and it is full of things that our supporters made possible. Here are a few data points picked up from the report: 🌸 756 students came out for field trips, and 77% learned more with Wylde Center as a part of their classrooms 🌻 73% of our education programs were offered at no cost 🐝 400 native species have taken root at Hawk Hollow, part of a 68% jump in biodiversity across our gardens To read the full report, use the link in our bio. Would you like a printed copy? Send a DM with your address and if you are local, if you’d like to pick one up. They will be ready for pickup next week.

Birding 101 is for the curious beginner. 🐦 Join PhD ornithologist Alexa Class Freeman at Oakhurst Garden to learn how to see, hear, and identify the birds around you. We’ll learn how to use binoculars, listen for bird calls, find and recognize common species, and discover simple ways to make your own yard more welcoming to birds. Have binoculars? Bring them. Don’t have a pair? No problem. Binoculars will be available to borrow during the class. No birding experience needed. Just bring your curiosity. October 3 • 9–10 AM Oakhurst Garden $15 members • $20 general public Space is limited to 15. Register at link in bio.

Tonight! Master drummer Chris Burroughs brings an evening of live jazz to Oakhurst Garden as our Music in the Garden series continues. This isn’t a big stage and a distant crowd. Music in the Garden is designed to bring artists and audiences together in an intimate outdoor setting—so settle in under the trees, bring something good to eat and drink, and spend a late-summer evening listening to live music in the garden. Shine: outside at the Oakhurst Garden Rain: inside our community room at the Oakhurst Garden Either way, it’s happening! Chris will be sharing music from his new album, Spirit of the Blues. Saturday, September 19 Doors open at 6 PM | Music begins at 7 PM Oakhurst Garden Tickets: $30 - Get yours by clicking on the link in our bio. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, food to enjoy, and your own beverages. 100% of ticket revenue goes directly to the artist. Thanks to Mason Koski for sponsoring this concert! https://www.masonkoskirealestate.com/

🍂 Fall Break Camp starts next week! Decatur City Schools may be taking a break, but there’s plenty to discover at Oakhurst Garden. Campers ages 5–9 will spend their days outside exploring the garden, playing nature games, making crafts, discovering seasonal changes, and enjoying all that fall has to offer. 🌿 September 21–25 📍 Oakhurst Garden ⏰ 8:30 AM–3 PM 🍁 Register for the full week or individual days 🌱 Aftercare available until 5:30 PM There’s still time to join us! Space is limited to 25 campers, so grab your spot while there’s room. 👉 Register at the link in our bio. P.S.: We've got camp for kids in other school districts, too! October 5-9 (Dekalb County Public Schools) October 12-16 (Atlanta Public Schools)

Tomorrow night! Come make something with your hands and spend an evening away from the scroll. This Tuesday’s Airplane Mode: Field Notes features a Simple Journalmaking Workshop led by Wylde Center Executive Director Stephanie Van Parys. You’ll learn how to assemble and sew your own journal by hand, creating something you can take home and use for sketches, observations, lists, ideas—or anything else you want to put on paper. The workshop is $15 and includes all materials. Each participant will leave with at least three journals and plenty of ideas on how to make more! Participants will choose from a selection of fun covers and from lined, grid, dotted, or unlined paper plus color string to sew the journal. And it’s just one part of Airplane Mode: the rest of the evening is free, with Mahjong, puzzles, coloring, postcards and other decidedly offline ways to spend your time. 📅 Tuesday, September 15 ⏰ 6–8 PM 📍 Oakhurst Garden 🎟️ Free admission; RSVP requested >Use the link in our bio

Natives, natives, and more natives!!! Hand sown and grown by our hardworking nursery team (and Tamara! :). It doesn’t get more local than this! Available this weekend at the Fall Plant Festival! Friday, September 11th from 4pm-6pm Saturday, September 12th from 9am-4pm 435 Oakview Rd, Decatur, GA 30030

We’ve been working hard on your FALL PLANTS and now’s the time! 435 Oakview Rd, Decatur GA 30030

We’re still set up for Fall Plant Festival! Great selection of herbs, cool season veggies, natives, sun and shade plants! 435 Oakview Rd, Decatur, GA 30030 #wyldecenter #urbangardens #shoplocal #supportlocal #pollinatorgarden

The monarchs have come to Hawk Hollow! To attract the monarch butterflies, we planted swamp milkweed, their host plant, at Hawk Hollow. It worked! It’s great to see the caterpillars enjoying the leaves and the butterflies enjoying the nectar. The butterflies are also attracted to joe-pye weed that we planted next to the swamp milkweed. Come check it out at Wylde Center’s Hawk Hollow greenspace, 2304 1st Avenue, Atlanta. –Tamara, Hawk Hollow Site Coordinator

Got a shady yard? You can still grow a garden full of life! Join us for Learn Wylde: ReWylding Your Shady Garden and discover how native plants can transform shady spaces into thriving habitats for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. 🦋 - Learn about native plants that thrive in the shade - Get ideas for your own landscape - Take part in a hands-on planting activity - Shop the Wylde Plant Market with a $5 coupon! 📅 Sunday, October 18 | 1–3 PM 📍 Hawk Hollow Garden, Atlanta 🎟️ $35 general admission | $30 for Wylde Center members Ready to re-wyld your yard? Register through the link in our bio! #WyldeCenter #NativePlants #AtlantaGardening #NativePlantGardening #LearnWylde

Happy October! We have pumpkins in the market! Come and pick out your favorite ones. 435 Oakview Rd, Decatur, GA 30030 6am - 11pm #october🍁 #fallvibes #pumpkinsplease

Wylde Center’s Fall Plant Festival is this Friday and Saturday (September 11 & 12) at Oakhurst Garden! Fall planting season is here, and Friday and Saturday are your chance to get the garden ready for the months ahead. Come shop fall and winter veggies, native plants, annuals, and more at Oakhurst Garden. On Saturday, the festival grows into a community market with local makers, growers, and small businesses joining us for the day. Whether you’re filling an empty garden bed, adding more native plants to your landscape, or just looking for an excuse to spend some time in the garden, come see us. Come for the plants. Stay for the garden, the people, and the start of a new growing season. Learn more at the link in our bio.

No such thing as too many butterfly posts! We are so happy to see Wylde pollinators in our urban gardens. Come check out all the other thriving plants and creatures here at our Edgewood Learning Garden at 53 Mayson Ave NE, Atlanta - Cody, Edgewood Site Coordinator Volunteers wanted! Find our volunteer opportunities through Hands On Atlanta. https://www.handsonatlanta.org/blog/stewarding-neighborhood-greenspaces-with-the-wylde-center

A huge thank you to Decatur High School students, Lexie Harper, Melanie Joyner, Sadie Doglas-Pratt, Asher Pilvinsky, and Melina Araya for painting a beautiful mural at Wylde Center’s Hawk Hollow site. They donated their time and incredible talent to give to the community. The mural depicts the native flora and fauna at Hawk Hollow including the lifecycle of gulf fritillary and monarch butterflies and a resident hawk. Come visit anytime dawn to dusk to appreciate their artwork at 2304 1st Avenue, Atlanta. –Tamara, Hawk Hollow Site Coordinator ❤️ what we do? Consider supporting Wylde Center with a donation. Link in our bio.

We had a dream team at Hawk Hollow to prepare a bed for a future monarch butterfly habitat. They removed wisteria and privet. The plan is to gather swamp milkweed seeds, plant them in pots to overwinter, and plant the seedlings in the spring. Looking forward to providing this essential host plant for the monarchs. Come join the fun Wednesdays from 5-7, or just stop by Hawk Hollow, 2304 1st Avenue, Atlanta, to check out the progress. —Tamara, Hawk Hollow Site Coordinator

Wylde Center is incredibly proud to have been named Fred A. Toomer Elementary School's Most Valuable Partner for the 2025–2026 school year! We were honored on Tuesday, October 13, and are so grateful to the Toomer Elementary community for recognizing the work we've been fortunate enough to do alongside their students, teachers, and families. From growing in the garden to exploring science, nature, food, and our environment, we love being part of the Toomer community. Thank you, Toomer, for welcoming Wylde Center into your school and your garden. We're proud to be your partner and excited for all that's still growing! @embracerealitynow @bekeleboutique

New sign at our Hawk Hollow Garden designed by Sarah. Thank you, Sarah!

September is a good month to be at Wylde Center! Fall planting season is beginning, the garden is slowly shifting toward a new season, and we’ve filled the month with plenty of reasons to spend some time outside. Here’s what’s happening: Sept. 3 | Learn Wylde: Growing a Fall Vegetable Garden Learn what to plant now for harvests through winter and into spring. Sept. 11–12 | Fall Plant Festival Shop winter veggies, native plants and annuals, plus a Saturday market featuring local makers, growers and small businesses. Sept. 15 | Airplane Mode: Unplug. Create. Connect. Put down your phone for an evening of making, slow activities and creative time in the garden. Sept. 19 | Music in the Garden: Chris Burroughs Master drummer Chris Burroughs brings jazz—and music from his new album, *Spirit of the Blues*—to Oakhurst Garden. Sept. 21–25 | Fall Break Camp A week of nature exploration, games, crafts and outdoor discovery for City Schools of Decatur’s Fall Break. And the gardens are here for you all month long, whether or not there’s an event on the calendar. Find details, tickets and registration at our website.

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