Category: Events
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Fall Garden Dinner – one week away!
One of the highlights of the garden social calendar is the Fall Harvest Dinner at Tonya and Mike Proctor’s house. This year we’ll be gathering one week from today, Thursday, October 15th at 6:30pm. The address is 115 S. Salem St. in Apex. There’s parking on the street or in…
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Schedule changes! Please note!
This coming Tuesday (9/15) garden hours will move back to 5-7pm as it’s getting dark earlier now. This coming Thursday (9/17) will also be our last Thursday morning workday for 2026 (9-11am). This is one of our busiest times of the year as we’re still harvesting a lot of summer…
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Come to Wildlife Trivia Night Friday 6:30 PM!
The challenge is on! Let’s show what the Simple Gifts Garden team can do. Get ready to test your knowledge of incredible animals and more at this fun community event hosted by your friends at South Wake Conservationists. Join us again at Black Dog Bottle Shop in Holly Springs on Friday,…
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Retracing the Lewis and Clark Expedition – LIVE PRESENTATION at Bass Lake Park Aug. 14th!
South Wake Conservationists Invites You to Join a Special Presentation SPACE IS LIMITED. Be sure to register early to reserve your spot to be one of the first to hear and see first-hand accounts of this exciting journey and meet Dr. Kays in person. Register below. Renowned National Geographic Explorer Dr.…
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Garden Summer Social Tues., Aug. 11th
Fellowship time with fresh tomato sandwiches, watermelon, and refreshments Please register so Nick and Peggy know how many supplies to bring. Tomatoes and watermelons will be from our own garden, of course! The sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. In 1762, the famously busy and…
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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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Open House wrap-up and Help Needed!
Last Saturday our Open House was a great success! Beautiful weather and dedicated volunteers and partners helped to introduce our garden and South Wake Conservationists to the wider community. A wide variety of native plants were sold. Kids planted seeds and learned about pollinators. Master Gardeners answered questions and lots…
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Open House & Native Plant Sale Sat., April 18th – Come One, Come all!
Our biggest event of the year! Since the grand opening of Simple Gifts Community Garden at our new location on Tingen Road, both our gardening community and our garden are thriving! We grow a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs. We’ve built everything using sustainable and organic practices, mostly…
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Calling All Volunteers to Help with our Open House April 18th!
This will be our second open house since our grand opening in May of 2024. Once again, we are co-hosting this event with South Wake Conservationists, which is offering a native plant sale as part of the event. We had an estimated 150-200 visitors last year, and it takes a…
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Please Support the Scout Building our Accessible Garden Tables
Secure a spot and receive a $30 egift card Dhruv Manchikalapati is working toward earning his Eagle Scout rank with his BSA troop, Troop 320, and plans to build accessible garden tabls for our garden this spring as his project. Traditional garden beds are placed on the ground, which makes…