Category: Events
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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…
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Garden collard harvest – Wed., Dec. 31st at 10am!
Happy winter days to you all! This coming Wednesday, December 31st we will gather at the garden at 10am to harvest collards and other overwintering crops for ourselves and the food bank. Collards are part of many southerners’ New Year’s traditional meal, symbolizing good fortune in the coming year. It…
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Join us at the Art & Gift Market this Saturday afternoon!
Hi friends, This Saturday Apex UMC will host our annual Art & Gift Market to raise funds for missions like our garden. 42 local artisans will be selling their wares for your holiday gift giving – woodworking, pottery, jewelry, wall art, quilting, candles, food, glasswork and more. Buying local is…
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Save the Date – October 6
Our fall harvest dinner will be Monday, October 6th at Tonya and Mike Proctor’s home on Salem Street in Apex. Please save the date so you can join us! This is a great time to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished this year, spend time with garden friends old and new…
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Tomorrow – strawberry plant giveaway and the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Hope you can join us at the garden tomorrow for a fun day of planting and counting! The weather looks to be spectacular too! We’ll be pulling out some of our strawberry plants which you are welcome to take home! We have way more plants than we will need to…
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Join the Fun with the South Wake Conservationists!
Two special events coming up with Simple Gifts’ long-time partner, South Wake Conservationists, and you’re invited! This Friday, Aug. 15th, we are having our first Wildlife Trivia Night. Then, on Oct. 4th, we are holding our premier annual family event, Kids in Nature Day. Wildlife Trivia Night Calling all wildlife…
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YMCA Camp E at the Garden
Future organic gardeners of America! We enjoyed having Kraft YMCA’s Summer Camp E come to the garden this morning for a field trip during Nature Week at the Y. These elementary school kids were immersed in the tools, crops, and maintenance tasks needed to operate a community garden, and by…
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YMCA Camp Rocks at the Garden!
Today was the first of several YMCA of the Triangle Summer Camp visits to Simple Gifts Community Garden planned this year. Todays visiting camp was “CILT Camp” (Campers in Leadership Training), comprised of teens in rising 9th – 10th grade who are looking for opportunities to serve and lead. It’s…