Salad Parties to Celebrate the Spring Harvest

It’s Time for SALAD PARTIES and Students taste the fruits of their labors at our annual Salad Party on the last day of their @Lunch class: May 26th (for 3rd-5th) and June 9TH (for K-2nd). They also signed the 2023 “TASTED-IT” Banner to commemorate which foods they tried! Enjoy photos of the older grades SaladContinue reading “Salad Parties to Celebrate the Spring Harvest”

Thanks and Congrats to TFES’s Tree Tender Fan Zhang-Plasket

Photo: In 2021, Fan Zhang-Plasket (on left) led the TFES tree planting in front of school with many families and older Upper Dublin students. She has also helped with many other gardening projects around the school and community. TFES’s Tree Tender Fan Zhang-Plasket was selected as the Outstanding Citizen in the 39th annual Upper DublinContinue reading “Thanks and Congrats to TFES’s Tree Tender Fan Zhang-Plasket”

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!!!”

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”

Friday Fun at the Student Program @Lunch

75 students from our younger grades (K-2nd grades), met on Friday for their first hands-on gardening lessons @Lunch! The previous week, we had 40 of the older students (3rd-5th grades) for a total of 115 Students in the Program! Due to the weather we had to pivot our plans, deciding to stay under the coverContinue reading “Friday Fun at the Student Program @Lunch”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GARDEN 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 VOLUNTEERS”

Celebrate Earth Day with these Local Nature Events

Save the dates for exciting local nature / plant events! Thank you to Cindy Nuss for sharing her expert plant advice with the TFES Garden Club. Mrs Nuss is a horticulturist, native plants expert, and a leader for Upper Dublin Township’s Birdtown PA Program. TFES hopes to support this mission. Bird Town Pennsylvania’s Mission isContinue reading “Celebrate Earth Day with these Local Nature Events”

MOVIE NIGHT PLANTING ACTIVITY – April 21st @ TFES

Join the TFES Community and Garden Club for a Movie Night in honor of Earth Day! Have fun with Cheetah friends on Friday, watch a flick and plant some seeds! Join us on Friday, April 21st at 6:30pm at the TFES Gym! The event is Free but also helps to raise funds for TFES 5thContinue reading “MOVIE NIGHT PLANTING ACTIVITY – April 21st @ TFES”

THANKS A BUNCH TO ALL OUR COMMUNITY DAY SUPPORTERS

SPECIAL THANKS TO LOWES Thank you so much to our partner Lowes in Upper Moreland and its Manager Chad Haussman, for joining us at Community Day and for donating soil, compost, sand, 20 bags of gravel, a shed (coming soon) and other supplies! Be sure to shop at Lowe’s! THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!!!!! It Takes aContinue reading “THANKS A BUNCH TO ALL OUR COMMUNITY DAY SUPPORTERS”