Category: Events
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Come share watermelon! Thursday garden hours have ended
We picked one of the biggest watermelons last night and we’re going to test our melon harvesting skills tomorrow by cutting it to share with everyone. I’ll bring it in a cooler on ice, so bring your appetite and maybe a napkin and we’ll see if the watermelons are as…
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Thursday evening garden hours begin tomorrow! Saturday time change!
Y’all remember that wet stuff that used to fall from the sky? We really NEED some of that, so if you know any ways to encourage a long, soaking-in rain, please do it! Thursday evening workdays begin tomorrow 6-8pm. Beans, squash, tomatoes and more all need to be picked pretty…
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Apex Welcomes Simple Gifts Community Garden 2.0!
It was a wonderful (thankfully rain-free!) morning in Apex on May 18th, celebrating the grand opening of our new location for the Simple Gifts Community Garden. In just fifteen months, this property went from an open, shrubby field to a fully-operational 1/2 acre garden with fencing, irrigation, electricity, 45 rows…
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Grand Opening is a GO!
The weather looks mostly dry tomorrow morning, so the Grand Opening is a GO! We will start setting up at 8am and the event will begin at 10am. Please invite your friends and neighbors! Bring a chair if you’d like to sit for the short ceremony to start things off.…
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Garden tonight rescheduled to Thursday!
Due to the rain, we won’t have garden tonight. We have a lot of stuff to do still before the Grand Opening on Saturday, so if you can come Thursday 5-7pm (or whenever we finish) that would be a BIG help. Please remember to invite your neighbors, co-workers and friends…
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Help with our Grand Opening!
We’re coming down to the wire to get ready for our Grand Opening one week from tomorrow! We’ll have lots of folks from all over the community visiting to learn about the garden and about our sustainability efforts. I hope you’ll join us tomorrow and/or Tuesday to help get things…
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Grand Opening preparations!
Happy Spring, friends! The Garden is in full swing with spring and summer crops in the ground. We’re moving full steam ahead with building the other half of the garden so we’ll have plenty of room for all varieties of cool and warm season crops. We’re also very excited about…
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Grand Opening – May 18
Saturday – May 18 from 10am – noon Grand Opening of Simple Gifts Community Garden 2.0! We hope you’ll all save this date to celebrate our new location and introduce the community to our work. Please share this with your neighbors, family and friends! We have lots of exciting plans…
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Garden begins at 8am tomorrow!
Now that the weather is getting warmer, we will begin Saturday garden hours at 8am starting tomorrow! Hope to see you tomorrow. It looks like it’s gonna be a gorgeous day!
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Tuesday Garden starts tomorrow at 4pm
Our first Tuesday garden workday for 2024 is tomorrow and we’re beginning at 4pm! Normally we start at 5pm this time of year, but we need some extra time to get cold season crops in the ground since we were rained out this past Saturday. Please come help us plant,…
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