Tag: Community garden
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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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Garden cancelled today
Today’s garden workday is cancelled due to much needed rain! Please join us Tuesday evening 5-7pm for planting, harvesting, weeding and watering. We have lots of springs crops to harvest and many summer crops to plant including annual flowers for our cutting garden. Hope to see you soon, Anne
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Open House wrap-up and Help Needed!
Last Saturday our Open House was a great success! Beautiful weather and dedicated volunteers and partners helped to introduce our garden and South Wake Conservationists to the wider community. A wide variety of native plants were sold. Kids planted seeds and learned about pollinators. Master Gardeners answered questions and lots…
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Welcome to Garden 2026 this Saturday and Tuesday!
This Saturday our 2026 season begins at 8am! It looks like it will be a lovely day and we’ve got a lot to do! There are many beds to be prepped and planted – potatoes, kale, cabbage, swiss chard, broccoli and more. We will be trying to get the crops…
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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…