DIG IN to the Garden Club Spring Newsletter with All the Signups, Events, and Spring News at TFESgardenclub.org/spring-2023. 😁🍉🥦🥕🧅🥗 🌱COMING UP SOON: ~ Student Program Learning @Lunch on Fridays April-June. ~ Creating Community Day on Tuesday, April 3rd @3pm (spring break) rain date next day ~ Moving the Garden thru this Spring! (Please Help/Donate!) ~Continue reading “Spring is Coming – Save the Dates!”
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2022 PHOTOS: A Year in Review of the TFES GARDEN CLUB
Hey Gardeners! We are gearing up for growing in 2023. As we look forward, we wanted to take a look back. It’s a great time to share these photos with the community, as we are all longing for warm sunshine and growing greens…. 2022 PHOTOS: A Year in Review of the TFES GARDEN CLUB ItContinue reading “2022 PHOTOS: A Year in Review of the TFES GARDEN CLUB”
Give Us Your Garden Story – Testimonial Time!
We have been getting some great feedback from parents. So many kids enjoy eating new foods like Kale and Radishes, which we grew and tasted this year! Such amazing stories of children’s seeds taking off and growing into huge tomato plants, which sometimes even inspired backyard gardens! WE WANT TO HEAR MORE FROM YOU!!!! PleaseContinue reading “Give Us Your Garden Story – Testimonial Time!”
Garden Club’s Past Week and This Coming Week!
We are so happy to be back at recess this past week. Again, this past Thursday, we enjoyed growing with the K, 1st, 2nd grades. (This coming week, on 5/26 the older grades will meet). We are happy to announce that we finished planting the food garden’s 15 beds and 10 container gardens filled withContinue reading “Garden Club’s Past Week and This Coming Week!”
THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO DONATED!
We truly appreciate Donations of the following families! Donation of Fund$ from the Meizlic’s and Teet’s Families. Thank you also to the Walders for donating 20 pairs of gloves to the garden club! Thank you to the Rubin’s for donating trash bags and for potting soil for planting activities. Thanks to the Cissne’s and Pedroso’sContinue reading “THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO DONATED!”
Photos of the First Week of Garden Club
The Garden Club Student Program is back @recess for the first time this school year. We started this past Thursday with the K, 1st, 2nd graders! Next week is 3rd, 4th and 5th grade gardeners. We are happy to offer this enrichment activity for TFES students of all grades (alternating Thursdays). Be sure to checkContinue reading “Photos of the First Week of Garden Club”
The TFES Garden Club’s Student Program is Back for Recess!
The TFES Garden Club’s Student Program is back during the school day, and offers TFES students hands-on gardening activities. Student members will meet THURSDAYS, at their grade’s lunch recess time. Signup Links and More Info at http://www.tfesgardenclub.org/students. “Sprouts” (grades K-2) and “Seedlings” (grades 3-5) will alternate weeks for Club Classes. SIGNUP DEADLINE is May 1st,Continue reading “The TFES Garden Club’s Student Program is Back for Recess!”
April Events Signups
Hi Growers! We have an exciting Spring planned in the garden, so be sure to signup! EVENTS We hope to see our members at our upcoming Garden events: HALF DAY GARDEN GATHERING on Friday, April 8th @ 1:30pm-3:30pm SPRING BREAK GARDEN TIME on Tuesday, April 12th @ 2pm-4pm Visit the Garden Events Page for details,Continue reading “April Events Signups”
Thank you for Supporting on Cleanup Day 2022
Thanks a bunch 🥦 for Supporting the Garden Club Cleanup Day 2022! The TFES Administration, Community and the following who made Cleanup Day possible: Mr Joshua Meyers (of Sandy Run Middle School) and his dad, the original builders of the TFES Garden Club 12 years ago. Sandy Run Middle School Student Council Members, who ranContinue reading “Thank you for Supporting on Cleanup Day 2022”
History Lesson on Victory Gardens — How Vegetables Fight Food Shortages During WWI and WWII
Victory gardens (originally called war gardens or liberty gardens) made their first appearance during World War I (1914–1918). President Woodrow Wilson called on Americans to plant vegetable gardens to ward off the possible threat of food shortages. Americans took up the challenge as a civic and patriotic duty. During World War I (1914-1918) and WorldContinue reading “History Lesson on Victory Gardens — How Vegetables Fight Food Shortages During WWI and WWII”
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