Tag: Apex nc
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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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Greening the Garden for 2025!
What a great day at the garden! There was a whole lot of plantin’ and weedin’ going on, and the weather was perfect. We had a tremendous turnout and were happy to welcome so many new members. It was especially good to see the enthusiasm of the kids that came…
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Tuesday time change 5-7pm
Starting this week, we will garden on Tuesdays from 5-7pm so we can finish and clean up before dark. We are still getting lots of summer produce to harvest, but we’re planting rows with fall crops like collards, kale, cabbage, carrots, radishes, turnips and others. We still have lots to…
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Potatoes, garlic and time change!
Come join us this Saturday for the best treasure hunt in town – digging potatoes! We have four rows of potatoes and we’ll need to get them out of the ground carefully and quickly before our produce transport volunteer comes at 9:30am. (The Point Care Pantry gets our Saturday produce…
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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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A Spiffy New Fence for the Garden!
Thanks to Eagle-Scout candidate Yagya Kasera of BSA Troop 320 in Fuquay Varina, Simple Gifts Community Garden now has a beautiful, new split-rail fence along the road frontage. This not only enhances the overall appearance of the garden, as you approach it, but it provides a great safety barrier to…
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A New Home at Last!
We’re very excited to invite you to come out and see the new location for Simple Gifts Community Garden! We have a firm commitment from the landowner, the YMCA of the Triangle, that we can build a new garden on their vacant land on Tingen Road in Apex, just 5…
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