Category: Events
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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…
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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…