09/25/2026
🍅🎓🌱 GROW YOUR BRAIN — OUR TEENAGERS HAVE GRADUATED & 🚚🌱 IT'S MOVING DAY! 🌱🚚🎓🍅
Well… it happened. Our little tomato seedlings grew up! 🥹🍅
From tiny seeds, to toddlers, to those awkward gangly teenage years… our tomato teenagers have officially graduated and moved into their college dorms! 🎓😂🌱
And apparently they wanted BIG dorm rooms!!
🪣 For reference — those are 20-GALLON cow feed buckets they are living in now! 😲
WOW. Talk about a growth spurt! 🌱
There is something pretty incredible about remembering that every one of these plants started as a tiny seed in our Grow Your Brain Group and they are grown entirely indoors in a frosted window.
For people recovering from brain injuries, gardening can be so much more than growing food. 🧠💚
Planting, watering, transplanting, problem-solving and adapting when things don't go quite as planned all give our brains opportunities to practice, learn and create new pathways — that's neuroplasticity in action! 🌱🧠
Gardening also encourages memory, planning, fine-motor skills, sensory engagement, patience and routine. And perhaps just as importantly, it gives us something to nurture, look forward to and celebrate together. 💚
🍅 And then we get TOMATOES!
Tomatoes are a wonderful addition to a brain-healthy diet. They're packed with nutrients, including lycopene and vitamin C, along with other antioxidants and plant compounds that help support overall health. ❤️🧠
And growing food ourselves brings another kind of nourishment — learning where our food comes from, building confidence and food skills, and discovering that even a tiny seed can become something pretty amazing. 🌱➡️🍅
💚 A HUGE thank you to the people who helped our little tomato graduates get this far:
🌱 West Coast Seeds — for the incredible donation of seeds that helped make our Grow Your Brain program possible. We truly couldn't have started this journey without you!
🪣 Our wonderful local farming families — thank you for donating these HUGE 20-gallon cow feed buckets and helping our plants find their new college dorms!
🪵 Smithers Lumber Yard — thank you for generously supporting us with materials and helping us continue to grow, build and learn.
From a tiny seed…
🌱 we grow food.
🧠 we grow our brains.
💚 we grow confidence.
🤝 and we grow community.
Now the question is… just how big are these college kids going to get?! 😂🍅🌿
