Kick-Off Photos and Thanks!

Last weekend, the TFES Garden Club prepared to spring into action! Thank you to the families and staff who came out to support our Kick-Off!

THANKS A BUNCH TO OUR AMAZING HELPERS:

Ms Kim for helping us out in the garden and for supporting Mrs Nyszczot in planning these programs and events.
Mr Springer for leading a team in the Food Garden to prep and plant the spring crops.
Mrs Blickley for running the Kid’s Fun Activities & Food Table.
Jodi Reich for staffing the Registration Table to be sure we have all the needed paperwork and assigned teams to volunteer arrivals.
Melissa Begley for helping the students get to know each other better with Fellowship Field Games, and her husband John Coyle for donating supplies.
Alex Sbalcio and Michael Nyszczot for leading a team to woodchip the outdoor classroom.
Bacher Family for donating mulch.
All the families for donating snacks.
Camden Children’s Garden, Valerie Frick and Mike Devlin for donating some activity/education supplies and 5 outdoor classroom tables at deep discount.
Lowes in Willow Grove for giving us a 10% discount on our supplies purchased to prep the garden for planting.

Most Valuable Gardener Award (MVG)

MVG goes again to Bob Ariyamitr for what you’ll read below under Outdoor Classroom and helping on Kick-Off Day.

Thank you to the many families who made up these super productive teams which will lead to growing food and young minds at the edge of Upper Dublin:

Glassman Family

Goren Family

Guzman / Mamani Family

Holder Family

McIvor / Young Family

LaPierre / Kerstetter Family

Levy Family

Sbalcio Family

Stricker Family

Wernick Family

PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION – It’s a children’s garden, so we try to let the kids experiment with horticulture and artwork around the garden. Things are growing in an ever-changing dynamic that is the beauty of nature. Today, you may see a plot of soil, but underneath, it’s worms doing their work, and baby seeds germinating, preparing to pop into nourishing produce. Our perennial plants are also beginning to awake from their winter rests.

OUTDOOR CLASSROOM – The tables that we had been using and the stumps were not the safest for our students, so it had been a long-term goal to replace them. Fortunately, our friends at the Camden Children ‘s Garden offered like-new tables at a deep-discount. And since our TFES PTO is the best, we got them. The tricky part is getting them transported from Camden, NJ. But since TFES parents are the best too, so Bob Ariyamitr offered to make 3 trips to Camden (near his work) to pickup the tables and deliver them with the help of another volunteer dad. We hope to complete the delivery of 5 tables.