Tag: potatoes
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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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The Garden was Really Hoppin’ Tuesday!
We had a fantastic turnout for what is typically a modest Tuesday garden evening, with cars filling up all the spaces along the fence and both side of the cul-de-sac! The usual task list was knocked out quickly, so the team turned attention to beginning to harvest our abundant crop…
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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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