Tag: Community garden
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Garden collard harvest – Wed., Dec. 31st at 10am!
Happy winter days to you all! This coming Wednesday, December 31st we will gather at the garden at 10am to harvest collards and other overwintering crops for ourselves and the food bank. Collards are part of many southerners’ New Year’s traditional meal, symbolizing good fortune in the coming year. It…
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Garden cancelled today!
The garden workday is cancelled today, due to cold rain this evening. We hope to see you Saturday morning beginning at 9am, as we catch up on our harvest and garden tasks. There will be no more Tuesday night workdays this year since daylight savings ends this weekend, but Saturday…
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Garden harvest dinner tomorrow!
We hope you’re planning to come to our Fall Harvest Dinner tomorrow, at 6:30pm at Tonya’s house (115 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 – bring enough to feed you/your family…
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Save the Date – October 6
Our fall harvest dinner will be Monday, October 6th at Tonya and Mike Proctor’s home on Salem Street in Apex. Please save the date so you can join us! This is a great time to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished this year, spend time with garden friends old and new…
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Strawberry plant giveaway!
Tomorrow we will be transplanting young strawberry plants to new beds. We have way more plants than we have room so if you’d like to take some home to plant, please come help us at the garden tomorrow 8am-noon. There will be instructions available so never fear! Hope to see…
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Day of service and time/day changes
Next Thursday, September 11th (8-10am) will be our last Thursday workday for this year. Because it is also a National Day of Service and Remembrance, we will be hosting a number of guests who have signed up to help through Activate Good. I hope you will make it a point…
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Tomorrow – strawberry plant giveaway and the Great Southeast Pollinator Census
Hope you can join us at the garden tomorrow for a fun day of planting and counting! The weather looks to be spectacular too! We’ll be pulling out some of our strawberry plants which you are welcome to take home! We have way more plants than we will need to…
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Garlic week!!
Tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday we will have all of our lovely dried garlic back at the garden! We will set aside some of it to plant this November (for harvest next summer). The rest will be available to you and our local food banks. Because we hung this garlic to…
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Early gardening is COOL(er)!
It’s not getting much cooler in the upcoming days so we’re modifying garden workday hours this week as well. Please note that Thursday morning hours are changing for the rest of July and August! Please remember to bring plenty of drinking water, take frequent breaks, wear sunscreen and a hat.…
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Open House & Native Plant Sale May 31st
Open House at the Garden Simple Gifts Community Garden at 3109 Tingen Rd., Apex, NC is excited to announce our first open house since our grand opening last year. Please join us on Sat., May 31st from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM (June 14th if raining) for garden tours, kids’ activities,…
Simple Gifts Community Garden 