Tag: Community garden
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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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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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Brand new Garden Video
Check out the new garden video about our Grand Opening! A huge thank you to our talented and generous videographer/editor/producer-extraordinaire, Katherine Pearce (aka Peggy and Jerry’s daughter)! Please share this with your neighbors, friends and co-workers. We need to get the word out that our garden has re-opened at a…
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The Spittin’ Image!
The garden team tested our biggest and best watermelon yesterday, and more importantly, everyone’s seed-spitting skills! It was a close contest, and the melon was so delicious, everybody kept coming back for more ammunition. Chris checked the readiness of the melon for the big games, and Anne deftly wielded our…
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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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Strawberry plant give-away!
Our strawberries are just about done fruiting which means you have a great opportunity to take some of these plants home for your garden! Strawberries are perennial meaning they will survive and fruit again next spring. However, we’ve found that they make smaller, harder and fewer berries if you leave…
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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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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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