Tickets Are Still Available for the Wylde Center's Popular Beer Garden Fundraiser June 27

Tickets are still available -- but going fast -- for the Wylde Center’s annual Beer Garden Silent Auction and Fundraiser, Saturday, June 27. The popular event brings together a number of local brews, food and music for a casual evening outdoors at the Oakhurst Garden, 435 Oakview Road, Decatur. A VIP Happy Hour will begin at 4:30 p.m., while the main event will last from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. VIP tickets are $80 and are available at www.wyldecenter.org/beer-garden/. The Beer Garden is presented by Chip Wallace of Keller Knapp Realty and all attendees must be at least 21 years old.

Silent auction items will include vacation getaways, restaurant gift certificates, spa packages and other enticing items and experiences. Each guest will receive a free souvenir Wylde Center tasting glass so they can sample brews from Ale Yeah!, Blue Tarp Brewing Co., Terrapin, Three Taverns Brewery, Twain’s, Orpheus Brewing, Wild Heaven Craft Beer, Red Hare Brewing Company and Treehorn Cider. The menu will include tastings from a number of restaurants including Farm Burger, Pop Stars, Steinbeck’s, Calle Latina, Ted’s Montana Grill and Revolution Doughnuts, and live music will be provided by The Grits.

VIP Ticket holders will also enjoy appetizers from Pine Street Market, Cakes & Ale and Sapori di Napoli, along with specialty cocktails provided by Paper Plane and designed by well-known local bartenders and friends Paul Calvert and Greg Best. Calvert, voted “Best Bartender in Atlanta” by several local publications, and Best, credited with founding the craft cocktail movement in Atlanta, will create some of their unique concoctions.

“What could be better than enjoying a cold beer on a warm summer evening in a beautiful garden? Plus, our guests are raising money for one of the city’s premier environmental organizations by bidding on an exciting assortment of silent auction items. The event sold out quickly the past two years, so I encourage anyone who’s thinking about attending to get their tickets early,” said Jeremy Jeffers, chairman of the event.

In addition to Chip Wallace, the Beer Garden Silent Auction and Fundraiser is sponsored by Russell-Herrera Attorneys at Law, Beth Mahany, C.P.A., Inbloom Landscaping, Decatur CoWorks, Private Bank of Decatur, Radio Roasters, the Place on Ponce Apartments, BlueFletch Mobile, Cassedy Coaching & Consulting and Stability Engineering. Rain or shine.

About the Wylde Center

In 1997, an idea took root in the Oakhurst area of Decatur, Ga. Neighbors Sally Wylde and Louise Jackson envisioned a community garden where children could learn about the natural world and enjoy hands-on gardening activities. With the purchase of a half-acre of property at the corner of South McDonough St. and Oakview Road, the Oakhurst Community Garden was born. From this small seed of an idea, the Oakhurst Community Garden blossomed and grew, and quickly became one of the area’s most popular gathering spaces, offering individual garden plots, educational programs, a destination for school field trips and other youth groups and social activities for all ages.

Today, supported by members, foundations, corporations and donors, the non-profit has been re-named the Wylde Center to honor its co-founder and to better encompass its expanded range of properties and programs. The Wylde Center oversees four distinctive greenspaces, mangers a year-round educational program for all ages, hosts social events and supervises the Decatur City Schools’ Farm to School Program. Staff and volunteers engage children, families and individuals in activities designed to develop creative skills in sustainable urban living, organic gardening, health and nutrition. The non-profit has grown from a Decatur-based organization to one that is providing environmental educational services for metro Atlanta. Despite its robust growth, the Wylde Center has stayed true to its original mission of cultivating vibrant greenspaces for everyone to enjoy and inspiring communities of environmental stewards. www.wyldecenter.org