Category: Events
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Calling All Volunteers for our Open House May 31st!
Opening our doors to the wider community! Since our grand opening last May, we have enjoyed steady growth, interest, and participation in our garden. As we enter our third season at this wonderful new location (thanks to YMCA of the Triangle), we are excited to host an open house. This…
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First day of Garden 2025 – THIS SATURDAY!
This Saturday (9am-noon) is our first workday of 2025! Hooray! I’m seriously ready for some “dirt therapy” and to see my friends again! We have lots of fun planned for this year and some new ideas to share with you. Saturday workdays will continue through November, moving back to 8am…
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New’s Year Eve Harvest
We’ll gather this coming Tuesday, December 31st at 10:30am at the garden to harvest collards and other crops for New Year’s luck! In case you’re not from the south (or haven’t lived here long), the traditional meal for New Year’s is black-eyed peas, collards (or other greens), pork and cornbread.…
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Winter Garden hours Monday
Our fall crops are doing so well that we’ll need to harvest again next week. We have kale, lettuce, bok choi, Swiss chard, carrots, turnips, broccoli and others to harvest including collards now that we’ve had some hard frosts. If you can join us this coming Monday, December 9th at…
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Come celebrate Nathan!
I hope you all can join us for our last workday of 2024 this Saturday from 9am to noon. We will be planting asparagus crowns, weeding and tucking in some of the beds for winter (meaning thick layers of leaf mulch) and celebrating Nathan Jesperson’s achievement as we award him…
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President’s Volunteer Service Award for Nathan
Join us on Saturday, November 23 at 11am! If you haven’t met Nathan Jesperson, you’ve missed a treat! This young man is a smart hard-worker and a joy to work alongside. His quiet persistance has a lot to do with how great the garden looks and how much food we’ve…
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Changes and opportunities!
We generally try not to put too many different topics in one email, but I beg your indulgance in this case as there are several changes and opportunities we want to share with you. Schedule changes – this Tuesday is the last Tuesday night workday for 2024. Daylight savings time…
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Hope to see you Tuesday and Thursday!
We have a big week coming up at the garden! On Tuesday, we’ll be planting 250 strawberry plants and could use your help getting them in the ground! This will be a multi-stage process and we’ll have 3 beds to plant, so there’s plenty for everyone to do. On Thursday,…
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Harvest dinner reminder and winter projects
We hope you’re planning to come to our Fall Harvest Dinner Thursday, October 17th at 6pm at Tonya’s office (Triangle Home Team Realty – 207 S. Salem Street in Apex). You and your family are invited and we’ll all bring dishes to share for dinner (remember the covered dish math…
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Fall Harvest Dinner – October 17
Please mark your calendar for Thursday, October 17 for our fall harvest dinner. We’ll all bring a dish or two to share, enjoy each other’s company and celebrate our accomplishments this year and our hopes for the coming year. Your family is all welcome to join in the fun. More…
Simple Gifts Community Garden 