Tualatin Elementary Sustainable Garden

Reminder to join the fun!!! ☀️ 🪏 🌿🫛🍅

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Join the Tualatin Elementary Sustainable Garden for a party in the garden! We'll be planting fall crops, weeding, watering, and thinning out/removing small trees. Please RSVP at the link below so that they have an accurate guest count for refreshments:

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If you can't make it this Sunday, we'd love your help watering the garden! Sign up for a day, a week, or as many days as you'd like (will take approximately one-hour, preferably in the morning before 10 AM or in the evening). Sign up here:

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As a thank you for all your hard work, you're welcome to enjoy the organic fruits, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers we grow in the garden - snack as you go or harvest for home!

Thank you for your support of the Tualatin Elementary Sustainable Garden!

2026 August Garden Work Party Join us for a party in the garden! We'll be planting fall crops, weeding, watering, and thinning out/removing small trees. And as a thank you for your hard work, we'll be providing refreshments! Please RSVP so that we may plan accordingly. Thank you for your support of the Tualatin Elementary Sustai...

Special thanks to our volunteers and the Gravis family for their donation of a 4 zone drip watering timer. It has made such a difference!

Thank you to Kasia Moukalled for the revision on our garden signup. You can even sign up for a single day there are a wide range of jobs for every level of comfort in the garden. Please reach out if you have any questions!!

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🌱 We are grateful to have another jr volunteer and Morgan Brown Grossman join us today to help water our growing garden and care for our plants. Their support makes such a difference as our garden continues to thrive! 🌞

They enjoyed harvesting some delicious, fresh blueberries straight from the garden. 🫐 There's nothing better than seeing the fruits of our hard work and sharing these experiences with our students and community.

Thank you to all of our volunteers for helping our garden grow and flourish! 💚🌿

We love seeing families volunteer together! 🌱💚

This week, our junior volunteers joined us alongside their mom, Kasia Moukalled and even got to reconnect with a classmate while helping in the garden. They spent time picking (and taste-testing 😉) calendula, blueberries, and snap peas while exploring all the wonders that come with growing food.

Volunteering at the farm is such a wonderful opportunity to teach kids the value of giving back to their community while also learning more about where their food comes. There’s something magical about watching plants grow, discovering beneficial bugs, breathing in the fresh scents of the garden, soaking up fresh air and Vitamin D, and experiencing the rewards of harvesting food with your own hands.

We're currently working on updating our volunteer process, but we'd still love to have you join us! If you're able to swing by—even for just one day—please reach out. Come sample some of the goodness, lend a hand, and take home a little harvest of your own. 🌿🫐🥕



For additional summer family fun here is a cool event!

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🎉 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED🎉

Our garden is a special place where children learn, explore, and connect with nature. From planting seeds to harvesting vegetables, the garden provides hands-on learning experiences that support curiosity, responsibility, healthy habits, and a love for the environment.

We are looking for families to sign up and help care for our garden! Whether you have a green thumb or simply a willingness to lend a hand, your support makes a big difference. Tasks may include watering, weeding, planting, harvesting, and helping keep our garden beautiful for everyone to enjoy.

By volunteering, you are helping create meaningful learning opportunities for our children while strengthening our school community.

If you can spare some time, please sign up to help. Together, we can keep our garden thriving and continue providing this valuable experience for your children and community.

Thank you for your support! 🌼🥕🍅

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🌱 Another fun day in the garden! 🌱

Today we welcomed four classes out to the garden for hands-on learning, teamwork, and plenty of planting!

Mrs. Fosatti's class checked in on our thriving scarlet runner beans and helped begin our Three Sisters Garden by planting pink strawberry popcorn. We can't wait to watch it grow alongside the other Three Sisters crops!

Mrs. Wharff's class got to sample our new stevia plants, and there wasn't a single student who didn't enjoy the natural sweetness of the leaves! Students divided into four groups and tackled a variety of garden projects, including planting cucumbers, pumpkins, basil, tomatoes, and stevia. They also helped water plants and moved more soil.

Ms. Hagerman's class teamed up with Mrs. Craft's 2nd-grade class for a special buddy gardening session. Together they planted sunflower seeds along our garden plot and worked hard turning and managing the compost pile.

A huge thank you to all of our young gardeners for their enthusiasm, teamwork, and willingness to get their hands dirty. Every visit helps our garden flourish and creates meaningful learning experiences for our students! 🌻🌽🍅🌱

What a fantastic day in the garden for our last garden work party of the school year! 🌱☀️

We had a great turnout today as volunteers came together to tackle some big projects around our garden. Thanks to everyone's hard work, we cleared our second garden plot of weeds, laid garden fabric, watered throughout the garden, cleaned up around our blueberry bushes, and successfully installed all three arches over our walkway!

We also planted pumpkins and loofa, deadheaded our calendula, and made great progress preparing the garden for a productive growing season ahead. 🌻🎃

It's amazing to see what can be accomplished when our community works together. Every project completed today helps create a more beautiful and productive space for our students and visitors to enjoy.

A huge thank you to everyone who gave their time, energy, and teamwork to make today such a success! We are so grateful for the support of our school family and garden community. 💚🌿

🌱✨ We’re excited for our work party ✨🌱

Join us this Sunday, 5/31 from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM as we come together to help care for and improve our space! Whether you can stay for an hour or the whole morning, every helping hand makes a difference.

There will be plenty to do, great company, and a chance to work together as a community. Bring your energy and get ready to make a big impact before the school year wraps up!

We can’t wait to see everyone there! 💚

🌱 Garden time was full of teamwork today! 🌱

Ms. Havens’ 4th grade class grabbed their shovels and helped us finish up our tomato row! Students replaced some of the damaged tomato plants and even planted a second row to prepare for our Florida weave. 🍅

Others worked hard moving soil to our raised cut flower bed, helping us get one step closer to even more beautiful blooms. 🌸

One of the best parts of the day was hearing so much communication and teamwork as students worked closely together to get the job done. We are so proud of their hard work and collaboration!

📣 Don’t forget — our LAST workout party of the school year is coming up on Sunday, 5/31! We will also talk about our need for summer volunteers to help keep the garden growing strong.