Tag: Simple Gifts Community Garden
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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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Tuesday time change and adding Thursday mornings!
Starting this coming week, Tuesday evening garden hours will be 6-8pm when it’s slightly cooler. Also Thursday morning garden hours will begin this coming week 9:30 – 11:30am. Summer crops are about to start coming in and we’ll need to harvest more often to avoid split tomatoes, baseball sized zucchini…
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Saturday time change
This coming Saturday, May 3rd, garden workday hours will begin at 8am! We normally work earlier in the summer when the temperatures get hotter. If we get everything done, it’s possible that garden hours may end a bit early, so come on out while it’s still cool and we can…
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President’s Volunteer Service Award for Nathan
Join us on Saturday, November 23 at 11am! If you haven’t met Nathan Jesperson, you’ve missed a treat! This young man is a smart hard-worker and a joy to work alongside. His quiet persistance has a lot to do with how great the garden looks and how much food we’ve…
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Changes and opportunities!
We generally try not to put too many different topics in one email, but I beg your indulgance in this case as there are several changes and opportunities we want to share with you. Schedule changes – this Tuesday is the last Tuesday night workday for 2024. Daylight savings time…
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Harvest dinner reminder and winter projects
We hope you’re planning to come to our Fall Harvest Dinner Thursday, October 17th at 6pm at Tonya’s office (Triangle Home Team Realty – 207 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…
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We need your help tomorrow!
Tomorrow is our last opportunity to plant cover crops this year! We really need your help to get these seeds in the ground before it’s too cold! Maybe you’re wondering why and what we’re planting this time of year. The two crops you see above are cover crops – crimson…
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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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Garden cancelled tomorrow!
Looks like another rainy Saturday tomorrow. We were planning to water a lot of the new crops we’ve planted, but it looks that’s taken care of. 🙂 We have lots of new beds to build, but it’s too wet to till, so we’ll hold off until Tuesday or next Saturday.…
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Garden leaders needed!
Every organization needs leaders. We are all part of groups where we may lead or follow based on our knowledge, longevity or availability. We have a large group of folks who lead in many different ways. Some plan behind the scenes, some help with compost turning or pickup, others deliver…
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