Hello! We're Legacy Decatur, the nonprofit stewards of Legacy Park. With your support, we keep Legacy Park thriving: maintaining facilities, bringing community-focused programs to life, and moving forward on the long-term master plan that’s shaping these incredible 77 acres for generations to come. If you believe in what’s happening here, please consider a donation to help us do even more.
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Legacy Park's Truckin' Tuesdays return this month, appearing each Tuesday from 5-8pm.
Expect more of what you’ve come to love: good eats, fresh air, music, and plenty of room to spread out with your friends, family, blankets, and chairs. Come hungry and discover trucks and vendors of all types ready and waiting to serve you. Get fed, have fun, all while helping fund ongoing operations at the park.
Should the weather look bleak, always check in with our Facebook or Instagram page where any cancellation announcements will be posted.
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Sunday, May 3 | 2-5pm
Dairy Barn at Legacy Park 500 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur Looking to lighten your closet and find something new for spring? Join us for an easy, community-driven way to refresh your wardrobe while keeping perfectly good clothing in circulation. Bring items to swap one-for-one, or simply browse and contribute what you can through a “pay what you’re able” donation. Everyone is welcome—whether you’re bringing clothes, looking for something new, or just curious to stop by. Presented by Cherokee Rose Real Estate and Decatur Community Habitat. |
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Jane's Walk: Fostering a Dynamic Community: The Evolution of Legacy Park Sunday, May 3 | 4–5:30pm | Legacy Park
What can a park become when a community decides to reimagine it?
Join Joey Goodall for a walk through Legacy Park and its 140-year history that most Atlantans don't know. The land began as the Decatur Orphan's Home in 1877, operated by the United Methodist Church, and was strategically sold to the City of Decatur in 2017. Since then, a master planning effort has transformed it into a dynamic public space: office space for eighteen local nonprofits, a 400-meter track, new affordable apartments, a forest restoration managed by Trees Atlanta, and a Global Growers Garden, among other things.
The walk traces the park's historical sites and natural features, and looks honestly at the compromises that come with ambitious public planning. Meet below the porch in front of the 500 building; park near the traffic circle. |
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An Evening of Shape Note Singing
Friday, May 15 | 7-9pm | Frank Hamilton School at Legacy Park
Come join the Frank Hamilton School for an evening of shape note singing! On May 15, from 7-9pm they will sing songs from the 2025 Revision of the Sacred Harp. No experience required! Newcomers, folks who want a refresher, or those that have been singing for years are all welcome!
The evening will begin with a singing school to get folks acquainted with the style of singing and notation, then proceed with people calling songs from the book they would like to sing with the class. Loaner books will be available.
Shape note music is a 200-year-old, uniquely American style of hymn singing. This tradition is also known as Sacred Harp, after the title of the best-known shape note tunebook. These haunting 4-part harmonies are sung in powerful, exuberant style, with singers seated in an open square.
Singing not for performance but for the joy of singing and the community of singers, to which newcomers are always welcome. |
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Monarch Butterflies Saturday, May 16 | 11am–12:30pm | Legacy Park Join us for Monarch Butterfies and learn about monarchs’ habitat requirements, including food (nectar plants), water, shelter, and spaces to raise young (host plants). Everyone will make “pudding stations” to attract monarchs to their yards. Led by Susan Meyers with Monarchs Across Georgia. |
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HOME v.2: Homeland
May 29 - July 18, 2026 Decatur Library | 4th Floor Gallery
The Decatur Arts Alliance and the Decatur Land Trust are partnering with the Decatur Library to present the second edition of this powerful art show celebrating the multifaceted meaning of “Home.” Nearly 60 artworks from across the county showcase in this powerful exhibition.
The 2026 exhibition theme looks to explore “homeland” as a geographical point of origin and a state of being. Works express cultural and ethnic elements, and elucidate the view of “home” from the immigrant to the expatriate, the displaced to the indigenous. How do we find “home” when we are away from the land of our forebears? What do newly arrived peoples do to preserve their culture and heritage? How do we honor and acknowledge the indigenous inhabitants of the lands upon which we all now live?
Artists were encouraged to explore these themes and more in their artwork, letting their creativity illuminate the diverse ways we experience and define “home” and their connection with a “HOMELAND.” |
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Join the new Legacy Park Community Garden
Annual Membership Fee: $150/year Learn more here
The Legacy Park Community Garden has memberships available to the local community. The accessible garden offers both tall beds for people with mobility challenges, including wheelchair users, as well as shorter beds. The community garden space is shared with the Trellis Ability Garden and its programs serving adults with long-term disabilities.
For the 2026 growing year, only short beds are available. The garden's accessible beds have all been rented. Community garden members will receive a raised garden bed with soil, hose and spigot for watering, basic garden tools, and access to volunteer opportunities and events for the community garden, and opportunities that support the mission of Trellis, its programs, and events.
Contact carson@trellishta.org with any questions. |
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Paint Love is Preparing for a New Mural at Legacy Park Share your thoughts on what it should be Paint Love is creating a mural on one of the sheds at Legacy Park as a part of its summer camp. As fellow Legacy Park community members, they'd would love to receive feedback about what imagery and feeling you may like to see. |
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VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Moore Chapel Gardeners are the volunteers who, under the leadership of the DeKalb Master Gardeners, keep Legacy Park's chapel grounds so beautiful.
They meet to work every 1st Tuesday of the month at 9:00am.
Those with a love of gardening are invited to join and help, either this month or in the months ahead. Let them know you're coming below. |
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Spend some time outdoors with Legacy Decatur creating and maintaining Legacy Park's greenspace. Help cultivate beautiful surroundings while enhancing your own gardening knowledge and connecting with nature. Legacy Park thrives through the contributions of many hands. Join us! |
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| Decatur Community Habitat is transforming the front yard of Isom Cottage into an ecosystem filled with native plants, food crops, and, of course, beauty!
Recently, volunteers built the first section of a habitat fence. A habitat fence is an efficient way to corral brush on your property while also creating a cozy habitat for critters to occupy over winter.
Join them and build skills that you can take home to your own yard. Everyone is welcome! |
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Those who care deeply about Legacy Park’s forests and wetlands will find kindred spirits during Tree’s Atlanta’s monthly volunteer workdays.
Help restore the health of our protected greenspaces by removing invasive species and cultivating the native canopy that naturally creates a sustainable home for wildlife. It’s strenuous and rewarding work so be ready to break a sweat, get dirty and learn a lot while doing it! |
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The Amphibian Foundation offers engaging courses and events for all ages, from beginner programs to advanced certifications. Led by expert instructors, each blends real science with hands-on learning, while supporting vital conservation work. Each month you'll find a variety of new opportunities. Check them out today! |
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The Decatur Arts Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that connects residents, businesses, tourists, and artists to increase arts access and engagement in Decatur, Georgia. Through its year-round programming of festivals, arts events, public art projects, and exhibitions, the DAA cultivates a collaborative artistic community.
Check their calendar regularly to discover all the latest. |
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Frank Hamilton School is a place where people of all ages can come together to share, learn, and celebrate music. Each month, the school offers a variety of classes, events and workshops serving musicians and budding musicians alike. Love music? Come be a part of it. |
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Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance uses the power of gardening and nature to enrich the lives of people living with disabilities by providing purpose, fostering independence, and creating community. Every month you'll find a variety of events and activities in and around their ever-evolving garden. Join them today. |
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Join with Compassionate Atlanta on Thursday, May 21 from 5:45-7pm for "Serenity Within", a gentle pause in a busy world, inviting you to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.
Together, participants will explore practices that strengthen inner calm and deepen our capacity for compassion. Suggested donation of $20. This month's proceeds benefit the Frank Hamilton School at Legacy Park. |
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| The Grief House creates and supports community-led offerings that foster the metabolism of grief from all kinds of loss.
From grief circles to yoga to crafts, they work to hold physical and virtual space for grief to be expressed, shared, and witnessed without judgment, and to re-integrate our experience of grief through a variety of somatic practices.
Each month is packed with opportunities. Click through to view them all. |
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Tai Chi 4 Life provides detailed Tai Chi-Qigong instruction geared towards each individual's needs, building a health baseline first and then moving towards fitness.
Each class focuses on adding to your own practice, allowing each individual to foster their own healing, health and wellness over time.
Classes are in-person with some also available via Zoom. |
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To everyone who helps make Legacy Park a special place, we thank you. For those who've come to love the park, we look forward to seeing you back. And for those unfamiliar, we extend an open invitation to drop by any time.
If you share in Legacy Decatur's mission to leave a positive and lasting legacy for future generations of Decatur residents, we honor your commitment to our community and look forward to your continued support. |
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