How To – TFES GARDEN CLUB

Roots of Wellness: Planting Lifelong Healthy Habits With Your Children

Parents play the most enduring role in shaping how children view health, balance, and self-care. Every meal shared, walk taken, and calm response modeled becomes a lesson that lasts beyond childhood. By turning everyday routines into learning moments, families can make wellness feel natural rather than forced.

Nurturing Curiosity: How Parents Can Help Children Grow into Self-Motivated, Engaged Learners

Children thrive when they’re encouraged to ask questions, make mistakes, and pursue what fascinates them. Model curiosity, protect unstructured time, and let learning connect to real life. Garden, Grow Food, and some other tips! For working parents trying to balance it all, here’s how to foster curiosity and stay present during busy seasons.

WE SENT HOME PLANTS – Here’s how to care for them & Photos!

5th Grade Garden Club Students under cover during a rainy Learn @Lunch In Garden Club, we focus on growing food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, your kids are brought take-home plants to your family after school Friday. We are here to support our families to grow!Continue reading “WE SENT HOME PLANTS – Here’s how to care for them & Photos!”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GARDEN WATERING VOLUNTEERS

Welcome Watering Warriors and Garden Guards! We thank you for your help! Below are some important instructions for your volunteering at the TFES Food Garden. Please check back for updates previous to your signup date. To help you with your gardening duties, we have created a list with tips for helping with chores in theContinue reading “INSTRUCTIONS FOR GARDEN WATERING VOLUNTEERS”

How To Care for Your Student’s Take-Home Plant

THIS WEEK: WE ARE SENDING HOME CUPS OF SOIL WITH SEEDS YOUR KIDS PLANTED! In Garden Club, we focus on growing our own food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, we send home starter plants and are here to support our families to grow! We have putContinue reading “How To Care for Your Student’s Take-Home Plant”

TFES Assembly – Setting Goals to Get Healthy in 2025!

Garden Club was so honored to be featured for this year’s Heart Health Assembly for all TFES students and staff. Coach Elise Carlin of Life in Motion Boot Camp, helped raise the roof and the cheetah’s heartrate with exciting exercise and an interactive lesson about how exercise is good for our body and mind. TracyContinue reading “TFES Assembly – Setting Goals to Get Healthy in 2025!”

Plant TakeHome: Photos and How to Care for Your “Adopted Plant”

How To Care for Your Student’s Take-Home Plant LAST WEEK: WE SENT HOME POTS OF SOIL WITH SEEDS YOUR KIDS PLANTED! In Garden Club, we focus on growing our own food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, we send home starter sewn seeds — we are alsoContinue reading “Plant TakeHome: Photos and How to Care for Your “Adopted Plant””

HOW TO GARDEN WITH US THIS SPRING!

Hi Friends! You have been asking so, we are telling you: If you signed up for Garden Club in the Fall 2023, you are all set for Spring! Stay tuned for schedule. If you want to signup for Garden Club this Spring, you still can.SIGNUP to be a Member at bit.ly/GardenClubSignUpTFES. Link to all theContinue reading “HOW TO GARDEN WITH US THIS SPRING!”

Student Photos and Instructions for Take-Home Plants— Grow Your Own Food…at Home!!!

This Spring, we have a total of 115 TFES Students part of our Learn@Lunch Program, exploring nature hands-on in the new TFES Food Garden! In the TFES Garden Club, we focus on growing our own food (and eating it too!). Part of our mission is to help our families grow at home, so we areContinue reading “Student Photos and Instructions for Take-Home Plants— Grow Your Own Food…at Home!!!”