The Growing Patch Early Learning Center

Guess who caught wind of our project! 👀 Tune into WBRE AT 4pm, 5pm & 6pm to hear us share some feel good news about our recent Seedlings for Seniors project! 💚🎥

Another wedding anniversary on the horizon signals another year to put out a scholarship in honor of family, tradition & growth! 💚

By supporting someone in our community, we have a goal of preserving the pride in our family names and promise to spread kindness in their honor 🌱

College students who reside in Luzerne or Wyoming counties can submit their essay & proof of college enrollment to [email protected] using the email subject ‘Scholarship Submission 2026’

We’re filling up quickly for the fall! Don’t wait to enroll! 🌱

It’s been a great day for the center with dirty hands & big heart!

Today we ran our 6th annual Seedlings for Seniors project! Each year, our hope is to teach our children about community partnership and kindness paired with intentions of bringing smiles to some ‘Grammies and grandpas’ who could use a little extra joy. The flowers we raise money for are donated to residents of local nursing homes & long-term care facilities.

This year we raised more funds than ever before which was directly reflected in us being able to send out more flowers than previous years! Thank you to every person who donated, shared a post, was a delivery helper for Seedlings for Seniors - particularly special as this year was a celebration of life for the project’s #1 helper of past years, Mr. Tom 💚

We were able to plant 480 flowers!!! That’s 480 smiles out to our community! Have a lovely weekend - spread some good! 🌱

Every single day is a chance to learn and GROW 🌱✨💚

Almost a week away! Thank you to all who have donated so far 💚

We’re gearing up to run one of our favorite annual community projects, Seedlings for Seniors! And this time, we’re running our project in memory and celebration of the very best planter and helper of the project, Mr. Tom 💚

Goal - have our children plant flowers for as many residents within local nursing homes and long term care facilities as we can to spread smiles while teaching our children kindness & compassion 🌱

Here’s how you can help the center with dirty hands and a big heart…

DONATE
🌸 Cash donation
🌸 Check made out to The Growing Patch and sent to 650 Tunkhannock Avenue, Exeter Pa 18643
🌸 Venmo to

TRANSPORT
🌼 We’d love some help in dropping off some of our flowers to facilities!

If you know a facility that could use some smiles, have a contact reach out to us with a number of residents at [email protected] with ‘Seedlings for Seniors’ in the subject line! If you have a contact with a nursery that would like to donate some flowers, email us! 💌 check out clips of this project in past years at our Instagram, .elc

Share this post to spread the word! 💚 we hope this will be our biggest year for this project, yet!

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms, mother figures, and incredible friends of motherhood!
So grateful to walk this journey alongside such strong, loving women and be able to see those shaping the next generation 💚

Happy teacher appreciation day! Teachers put in work superior in importance to laying the foundation of the emotional, social & educational growth of our youngest learners 💚 thank a teacher who made a difference with a tag or comment below! 🌱

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." — Jane Goodall
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