Welcome to the Sandy Springs Conservancy Website. Our mission is to build partnerships that create, conserve and connect parks and green space in Sandy Springs. Please stay and look around. To view the projects we are working on CLICK HERE. To see the latest news and events, like the new town center or the Abernathy Greenway and Playable Art Park CLICK HERE.
Lost Corner Community Garden Blooms
Lottery for Garden Plots Now Open!
City of Sandy Springs First Community Garden Will Open This April
The City’s first Community Garden at Lost Corner Preserve (99 Dalrymple at Brandon Mill) is opening soon! It will have approximately 60 garden plots/raised beds that will be available for planting by Sandy Springs residents this summer for a small fee.
Bed allocation will be determined by lottery. You can find the on-line application at www.friendsoflostcorner.org
Hard copies are available at:
City Hall (7840 Roswell Road)
Hammond Park (705 Hammond Drive at Glenridge)
The lottery is open from March 15th to March 31st. The winners will be chosen on or around April 1st and notified using the information provided on the lottery application. Bed selection will begin on or about Saturday, April 6th. The garden is scheduled to open for planting on April 15th. For additional information on policies & procedures, layout, bed specifics etc, please visit: www.friendsoflostcorner.org/uses/community-gardens/
Playable Art coming to Sandy Springs
THEY’RE ON THEIR WAY! Our Playable Art Park sculptures are gradually arriving in Sandy Springs. Unexpected delays of the Abernathy Greenway/Art Park construction have pushed back our sculptures’ installation several months, so artists are delivering works as they complete them. They will be stored locally until the park opens.
Our first sculpture is already in place. If you’ve driven along Abernathy Road, you’ve seen the gigantic, 50ft Dragonfly peeking out above the safety fence – waiting for our grand opening sometime next winter. Artists Tanner Coleman and Alexis Gregg built it last summer from more than 7,000 carved and colored bricks. Its webbed wings are stored away until they can be stretched taut for kids to climb on.
Last week, Kansas City artist, Beth Nybeck delivered “Twist & Shout” – a fantastic three-piece steel playscape. It will be stored until it can be installed in the Art Park.
Colorado Artist Frank Swanson has completed “It’s You & Me, Kid”, his 18,000 lb granite sculpture, but will deliver it to the Park for direct installation on site.