Blacksmithing for Beginners, Wine Fest, Holiday Fair and More

Here's what's on tap this weekend:

Saturday, November 9, 2013:
Growing Herbs For The Home Medicine Chest: In this class, you will learn to propagate some health supporting go-to herbs, focusing on plants that are easiest to grow in our climate and most useful for a home medicine chest.

Beginners Blacksmithing & The Home Forge: This beginner’s blacksmith course held at Nelms Creekmur Forge in the Lake Claire neighborhood of Atlanta will teach some of the basic yet fundamental blacksmithing skills such as drawing out, scrolling, bending, and twisting.

Music and Movement Merriment for the Whole Family!: The whole family--babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, and the grown-ups who love them-- is invited to join Miss Wendy ​for ​chants, songs, movin', groovin', instrument play, and FUN!

Holiday Fair at the Waldorf School of Atlanta: Waldorf School of Atlanta Holiday Fair is Saturday from  10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children of all ages will enjoy activities including candle dipping, jump rope making and an exciting obstacle course.

Decatur Wine Festival: The annual Decatur Wine Festival, metro Atlanta's largest outdoor wine festival, is held on the square in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Proceeds benefit the Decatur Arts Alliance, which produces the Decatur Arts Festival and many other arts events, free to the community each year.

Sunday, November 10, 2013
Earth Poetry with Stephen Wing: For centuries, poets have celebrated the Earth, its seasons, its creatures, its beauty and its bounty. Poets have also grieved the destruction of nature and the growing spiritual separation between human beings and our home planet. Poet Stephen Wing will introduce some of the voices of this poetic tradition and offer a chance to write a poem of your own amid the inspirations of Oakhurst's own Eden.

This Ain’t No Picnic: In celebration of Slow Food Atlanta and its Italian heritage, Love is Love Farm at Gaia Gardens will host its fall-inspired “This Ain’t No Picnic” farm dinner on Sunday, November 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. Guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres, farm-inspired cocktails from mixologist Paul Calvert of Paper Plane, a tour of the organic five-acre farm with Joe Reynolds, and a four-course dinner reflecting the farm’s soil and season from some of Atlanta’s top chefs.