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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!”

Spooky Sensory Table Thanks

THANK YOU to the Graham Family for donating a super fun sensory table with spooky treasures for kids to find!  We used the sensory table, and a mini/mobile version for a class party, trunk or treat, 2 Learn @Lunches and for any visitors of the Food Garden! Unfortunately the sensory table foundation piece broke whenContinue reading “Spooky Sensory Table Thanks”

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

Eagle Scouts Build Fence to Protect TFES Food Garden

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”

Summer 2024 Signup 

Hi Cheetah Community: We need your support in watering the TFES Food Garden this summer.  Please SignUp and pick your day/time — it will only take about 30 minutes.  We could really use the extra help in keeping the gardens alive during the hot, growing months.   “WATER WARRIORS” NEEDED DAILY VOLUNTEERS TO: Water and tendContinue reading “Summer 2024 Signup “

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”