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”
Category Archives: kids gardening
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”
Soil, Sun, & Science with Students
A 5th grade class and all the 4th grade classes joined us in the TFES Food Garden to help us correct our soil and prepare our beds for planting! With the help of Penn State University’s Agriculture Department, we had our soil tested. We used the reports, as we applied math and soil science toContinue reading “Soil, Sun, & Science with Students”
Post-Event Post, Pictures and Thanks
Our first Garden Club event of the year was on Saturday, March 22nd. THANKS TO THOSE WHO JOINED US FOR THE FAMILY KICK-OFF. We were thankful to the about 40 volunteers who helped us to wake the garden up for Spring! Students and their families enjoyed getting dirty, doing gardeny crafts and being productive by preparingContinue reading “Post-Event Post, Pictures and Thanks”
TFES GARDEN CLUB: SPRING INTO ACTION!
Grab your calendars and your garden maps! It’s time to plan the spring! SPRING NEWSLETTER: with all the happenings and links. Highlights below: 🍅 EVENT: Garden Family Kick Off: on Saturday, March 22nd, 1-3pm 🥬 SEE THE SPRING SCHEDULE. 🥒 STUDENTS LEARN @ LUNCH starts in April! Some important seeds below: 🌽 Students still wantingContinue reading “TFES GARDEN CLUB: SPRING INTO ACTION! “
Photos from Garden Club Learn @Lunch (K, 4th, 5th)
We had a fabulous fall time in the garden, this past Wednesday with the Kindergartner, 4th grade and 5th grade students. First, we enjoyed our bagged lunches in the outdoor classroom, then learning all about pumpkins, touring /planting in the Food Garden, eating whatever we could harvest, playing with the sensory table, and a funContinue reading “Photos from Garden Club Learn @Lunch (K, 4th, 5th)”
Student Learn @Lunch SIGNUPS!!!
Garden Club’s STUDENT PROGRAM LEARN@LUNCH is back this Fall! UPDATED MEMBERSHIP FORMS NEEDED EACH SCHOOL YEAR Students K-5th who SIGNUP will meet with students their age, at their designated Lunch/recess time. The Club offers hands-on gardening activities, as an enrichment program for all TFES Students, including the Intermediate Unit. SignUp/Info at http://www.tfesgardenclub.org/students
MCIU Special Needs Students in the Garden
Part of the TFES Garden Club’s purpose is to serve ALL TFES Students with our Food Garden, Outdoor Classroom and mission to “Grow food and young minds on the edge of Upper Dublin”. With that, we invite the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) students with special needs to join us in the garden each spring.Continue reading “MCIU Special Needs Students in the Garden”
April Learn @Lunch: Photos and Lessons Learned
Over the past few weeks, 133 TFES Students were in the TFES Food Garden, during their grade’s lunch recess time. We appreciate that these kids are giving up their recess to grow food and learn about nature! Here’s what their last class looked like. After enjoying a picnic lunch at the TFES Food Garden /Continue reading “April Learn @Lunch: Photos and Lessons Learned”
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: Most Valuable Gardener Award (MVG) MVG goes again to Bob Ariyamitr for what you’ll read below under Outdoor Classroom and helping on Kick-OffContinue reading “Kick-Off Photos and Thanks!”