Atlanta, Georgia (August 20, 2015) – The Chattahoochee Nature Center is pleased to welcome guests of all ages to its annual outdoor food and wine event Harvest on the Hooch, celebrating the vital connection between the garden and the plate and raising funds for the Center’s Unity Garden. In addition to featuring catering from local restaurants and chefs, the event includes Bluegrass from Georgia Jug Huggers and Appalachelation, garden games and tours of Chattahoochee Nature Center’s Unity Garden.
WHAT Presented by Whole Foods Market, Harvest on the Hooch is a ticketed tasting event highlighting local farm-to-table restaurants in support of the Chattahoochee Nature Center’s Unity Garden, acreage where healthy produce is grown for donation to local food pantries in partnership with North Fulton Community Charities. Guests at Harvest on the Hooch enjoy generous samples from the top local chefs along with wines, craft beers, live entertainment and the natural setting. Families are encouraged to attend this special day on the Hooch, which also includes kid-friendly activities like cornhole, hula hooping, a scavenger hunt with prizes and face painting as well as a menagerie of animals like alpacas, goats and baby chicks.
Participating restaurants in this year’s Harvest on the Hooch include Avalon Catering, The Big Ketch, DBA Barbeque, Foundation Social Eatery, Meating Street Barbeque, The Mill Kitchen and Bar, Muss and Turners, Oak Street Café, Paper Mill Grill, Parsley’s Catering, Red Sky, Seed Kitchen & Bar, Table & Main, Talk of the Town Catering, Whole Foods Market and even more to be announced soon!
WHEN Sunday, October 18: 1 to 4 p.m.
WHERE Unity Garden
Chattahoochee Nature Center
9135 Willeo Rd.
Roswell, Georgia 30075
TICKETS Adults $40
Children $15 (ages 10 and younger are free)
WHO Harvest on the Hooch is generously supported by Whole Foods Market, The Shumate Family, Macy’s, Crafdal Farms Alpacas, Sandy Buhler and Renasant Bank.
About the Unity Garden
Harvest on the Hooch is a fundraiser for the Chattahoochee Nature Center’s Unity Garden, which supplies more than five tons of fresh produce annually to North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC) food pantry. Additionally, the Unity Garden is a learning facility where water conservation methods are taught. It is also utilized for GROW summer camp where kids plant, harvest, weed, seed and deliver the produce to NFCC food pantry while tasting just how delicious veggies can be! The benefits of the garden to GROW campers are currently being studied by the UGA Social Agriculture Department.
About Chattahoochee Nature Center
The Chattahoochee Nature Center is a private non-profit environmental learning center, with more than 127 acres of woodlands and wetlands along the Chattahoochee River. Dedicated to educating and connecting people of all ages to nature, especially the Chattahoochee River and its watershed. The Center’s conservation principles and the exposure to the natural world it provides are critical to the community’s collective efforts to preserve natural resources such as the Chattahoochee River.
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