Due to deer and vandalism, the TFES Garden Club made a difficult decision to have a fence built around the TFES Food Garden. The Food Garden’s security fell to the wayside, with time/money budgeted towards other Garden Club projects, like the outdoor classroom, TFES front entrance, and funding the Garden’s Student Program activities. Well, thisContinue reading “Eagle Scouts Build Fence to Protect TFES Food Garden”
Category Archives: Thanks a Bunch
Salad Parties (K-2) Photos and Thanks!
On Tuesday, May 28th, we celebrated the Annual Salad Party for Grades K-2 (our last @Lunch of the school year! 😦 Salad Parties give our students the Taster-tunity (that means Opportunity to Taste) all the foods ready to harvest this Spring! Our amazing volunteers will also be teaching the kids about the health benefits ofContinue reading “Salad Parties (K-2) Photos and Thanks!”
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”
Outdoor Classroom Progress and Thanks
We can now seat a full class, safely with our like-new tables! The tables that we had been using and the stumps were not the safest for our students. It was a long-term goal to replace the seating. A dream of Garden Club was to create this open-air classroom in nature available to all TFESContinue reading “Outdoor Classroom Progress and Thanks”
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!”
Happy Holidays from Garden Club!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS & A FRUITFUL NEW YEAR! To Thank Our Families, we created this fun Holiday Color Page. You can print it and make a card for a loved one. This way, you can tell your friends about TFES Garden Club — growing food and young minds at the edge of Upper Dublin. We can’tContinue reading “Happy Holidays from Garden Club!”
HAPPY GIVING TUESDAY and Happy Holidays from the TFES Garden Club!
WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU!!!! We would not be able to teach 135+ students a year, assist 100s of families in community gardening, provide our home gardeners with donations of seeds/supplies to our families, grow 100s of meals in produce annually or teach children about nature–without your support (and the support of PTO and School Administration).Continue reading “HAPPY GIVING TUESDAY and Happy Holidays from the TFES Garden Club! “
Thanks a Bunch Primex!
Thanks to Primex Garden Center for being a star sponsor—donating 100’s of seed packets to our garden club and many more in the area!Our Primex partners donate 30+ packets of seeds to the TFES Garden Club (and to many other school garden teachers!)! We at TFES Garden Club are ready to plant our cold weatherContinue reading “Thanks a Bunch Primex!”
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