Simple Gifts
Community Garden
Garden updates
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Garden cancelled today
Today’s garden workday is cancelled due to much needed rain! Please join us Tuesday evening 5-7pm for planting, harvesting, weeding and watering. We have lots of springs crops to harvest and many summer crops to plant including annual flowers for our cutting garden. Hope to see you soon, Anne
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New Pollination Paradise Page
Check out our new, completely-refreshed page about our beautiful pollinator plants and the beneficial insects they attract! Thanks to Penny and Anne for bringing us a fresh, new view of this important part of our sustainable and beautiful Simple Gifts Community Garden.
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Time to Get Ready for Spring Planting!
Wait – it’s only February! But March is right around the corner, and our first garden day of 2026 is March 7th (30 days). To get new crops ready to plant for the new season, Larry has been nurturing seedlings under grow lights. He has 400 seeds incubating, including: And on the pollinator and companion plant front, Penny has been tending to her new crop of seedlings in her greenhouse for us, including: Many thanks…
Volunteer opportunities
In addition to our garden work on scheduled garden workdays, including soil prep, planting, watering, weeding etc., there are other important supporting tasks that make the garden go. See some examples below. If you would like to sign up to help with any of these on particular dates, please go to our sign-up sheet by clicking the button below. Many hands make light work!
Compost Turning
Expired Produce Pickup
Pollinator plant wish list
Our vision
- Living example of sustainable local food production
- Learning center for gardening and natural resource conservation
- Abundant, high-quality organic produce for those in need
- Inspiration and inclusive engagement of the Apex area community
- Youth motivated to help others and the environment
Core values
- Welcome all people to participate
- Garden organically
- Feed the food-insecure via local food banks
- Educate about sustainability and conservation
- Support pollinators and the ecosystem
What we do
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Feed the Hungry
Collective effort to bring fresh organic produce to local food banks
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Build Inclusive Community
Working, digging, sweating, and laughing together . . . all are welcome!
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Encourage Community Service
Youth groups, teen service hours, community service hours, corporate volunteers
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Educate about Sustainability
Learn by doing – we all learn together and share the knowledge freely
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Support Nature
Using sustainable practices, including organic gardening, diverse pollinator beds, and support for native plants and wildlife
Current garden hours
- Saturdays, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Tuesdays, 5:00 – 7:00 PM (starting Mar. 10th)
Duty roster
| Location | When | Summary | Description |
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| May 16, 2026 | Produce pickup – Patti A. | ||
| May 16, 2026 | Leader – Bruce | ||
| May 16, 2026 | Lowes Foods – Jill | ||
| May 16, 2026 at 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Eagle Scout project at the Garden | ||
| May 17, 2026 at 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Eagle Scout project at the Garden |
