Tag: garlic
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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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YMCA Camp Rocks at the Garden!
Today was the first of several YMCA of the Triangle Summer Camp visits to Simple Gifts Community Garden planned this year. Todays visiting camp was “CILT Camp” (Campers in Leadership Training), comprised of teens in rising 9th – 10th grade who are looking for opportunities to serve and lead. It’s…
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Garlic and Friends
Our first Thursday morning was popular, with 10-12 people coming to work the land. The fine art of garlic braiding was shared with several new members who joined today. The harvest yielded 59 pounds of cabbage, peppers, strawberries, raspberries, squash, onions, kale, beets, and Swiss chard, which all went for…
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Early Start Again – 7 AM
We are adjusting to the heat predictions and will start our garden workday at 7 AM again this Saturday. Come when you can, but the earlier the cooler! Our main focus will be on harvest, as the crops are really coming in strong now, plus an extra dose of watering.…
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Help with a Big Harvest on Saturday – No Garden on July 4th
With our 1/2 acre plot fully planted now, the fruits of our labors are starting to come in fast and furious! Yesterday (Tues. 7/2) we harvested 110 pounds of tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, pattypan squash, zucchini, eggplant, green peppers, banana peppers, hot peppers, green beans, and raspberries. And that is…
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Tater time!
We harvested over 280 pounds of potatoes from 3 of our 4 row this morning! We got some beautiful dark red Norlands, Yukon golds and Pontiacs. We still have one row of German butterballs that we’ll be harvesting soon. We also harvested 4 rows of garlic, lettuce, swiss chard, strawberries,…
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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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