Farm & Garden

TVCS began a partnership with Erika Eschholz of “Full Circle Education” in 2006 to implement a comprehensive Farm and Garden Program at TVCS. All children attending TVCS participate in planting the campus garden and greenhouse in the spring, composting and mixing soil, selecting, maintaining and harvesting crops, cooking garden meals, preserving food, and caring for the farm animals (chickens and goats). A Harvest Party luncheon is prepared by the students in the fall. Curriculum associated with this program varies with the children’s age and what they are studying in the classroom. For example, as part of a unit on economics, students in 5th/6th grade wrote a business plan for an egg selling business in which they were challenged to make enough money to cover the cost of the chickens' organic feed.