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Tuesday Garden Workday Canceled
Dear Gardeners, It looks like the the rain and the low temps are going to keep us out of garden tonight. We will be back on Saturday morning, bright and early, at 8 a.m. We have lots of sweet potatoes and other goodies at the garden, so please come if you can — even if…
*** SWEET POTATOES ALERT ***
Hi, friends, We harvested the sweet potatoes on Tuesday and we have buckets of sweet potatoes to share with our gardeners. Take home some ‘taters, and they will be cured and ready for cooking for Thanksgiving or Christmas! Also: We are having a friend of the garden come in soon with his tractor to plow…
Tuesday Garden Work day
… will be at 6pm instead of 5pm. Bring plenty of water to drink!
Saturday Workday
Hi Garden Friends, The garden is abundant, the bees are busy and the weather looks to be beautiful this weekend. I know schedules are busy and there are so many things to do this time of year, but please consider joining us tomorrow morning for a little “dirt therapy”. We have many small tasks that…
At our Tuesday workday, Sandra Webb brought us chocolate and other fixins’. Our gardeners harvested fresh strawberries from our two strawberry beds and washed the berries. Sandra heated up the chocolate at one of our picnic tables. And we had chocolate-covered strawberries — YUM! Thank you, Sandra and all the harvesters for this moment of…
Society of St. Andrew at Simple Gifts Garden
Yesterday Bruce and Penny Oland from the Society of St. Andrew visited Simple Gifts Garden. Bruce is Triangle Area Gleaning Coordinator for St. Andrew. He is also a generous man! St. Andrew and Simple Gifts Garden both support the WWCM Food Bank, so Bruce gave us one hundred feet of potato netting that St. Andrew…
Saturday Workday ~5/23/15
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! If you’re not heading to the beach this long holiday weekend to enjoy the glorious weather and relax to the sounds of the waves breaking (and if you are, I am SO jealous!), I hope you will consider coming to the garden Saturday morning for our usual worday! We will start…
Please share our new garden video!
Check out our new garden video. Please share it with your friends or on social media so others will learn about the joy of gardening together. Big thanks to Chris Daniel of Apex UMC for his time, creativity and dedication to bring this all together.
Tuesday Garden Notes*
Hi garden leaders! It was a beautiful night at the garden tonight! Rosemary, Tonya and I planted the other half of the beet row and prepped and planted a row of spinach. I think probably I should have sent out an email reminding folks that Tuesday gardening begins with daylight savings time because there were…
Saturday March 7th*
Hello garden friends! I know I often talk about the weather, but my gracious! Have you ever seen such crazy weather as the last couple of days? Beautiful spring day yesterday and a wintry mix predicted for tonight. Well, regardless of what this moment looks like, Saturday is predicted to be beautiful! Because it’s going…
Save the Date**
Hello garden people. Sure is hard to think about digging in the ground when the temp is in single digits, isn’t it? I’m not even sure it’s physically possible; I imagine the ground is rock hard right now! Garden season is nearly upon us! Our first workday is scheduled for Saturday, March 7—just two weeks…
