Category: General Interest
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Early start tomorrow
Garden will be 8-10 am tomorrow due to the heat. Please come help us get the harvest in and start prepping beds for fall crops.
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Summer Harvest Guidelines
There are many different opinions about gardening in general and harvesting in particular. We’ve pulled together a consensus on guidelines for harvesting so we can be consistent. Please review these guidelines so you’ll know what to look for. There will be a printed copy at the garden to refresh your…
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Urgent compost turning needed!
Our compost bins are full to overflowing thanks to member contributions and several teams of dedicated folks who pick up food scraps from grocery stores, coffee houses and local food banks. We need to turn the bins ASAP so we don’t have to put these deliveries on hold. If you…
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Company’s comin’, so wear your garden smile!
The Summit Church is bringing upwards of 30 people this Saturday to help in the garden. They are very excited to be coming and we are very excited to have them. We will start with tours while the harvest is underway, and then break into teams to help with the…
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Reuse Produce Containers for Food Banks
If you have produce containers like these two sizes, please wash them and bring them to the garden to be reused for produce we send to the the food banks. We had quite a backlog in the loft, but we’ve used most of them up now. These two sizes are…
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YMCA CILT Camp at the Garden
They couldn’t have picked a better day to come to the garden. Temps in the low seventies and partly cloudy! We enjoyed welcoming back again this year the leadership training youth (ages 13-15) from the Kraft YMCA CILTS Camp (Campers in Leadership Training). They are always a fun group to have, and with…
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Workday day/time changes
It’s getting hot so some of our workdays will change starting this coming week. Tuesday evening workdays will be 6-8pm. In addition, we will begin Thursday morning workdays at 9-11am. Summer is when we have the most abundant harvest so we need your help as often as you can come.…
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The Lure of the Garden
We had the pleasure of welcoming back a group of seniors from Sage Crossing to the garden again Friday. These folks, who have some level of memory loss, were enthusiastic about doing some hands-on gardening again. They had planted a row of zucchini last March, and on Friday they scored…
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You might know somone on this video podcast!
About a month ago, Monty and I were invited to talk with Marvin Waldo of the Filling the Glass video podcast. This is a relatively new venture with the goal of building community and encouraging empathy right here in the Apex area. In their words, “each one of these podcasts…
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Accessible Garden Boxes Under Construction!
Construction of two accessible garden boxes we have been looking forward to introducing to our garden is well underway! Dhruv Manchikalapati of BSA Troop 320 in Fuquay Varina is leading this project for his Eagle Project. Ron Nobles, a retired Industrial Arts teacher, is offering expert guidance (and tools) to…