Tidehaven FFA

Congratulations to our 2024-2025 FFA Officer Team!!

President- Macie Gardner
Vice President- Sophie Borchardt
Secretary- Avery Smith
Treasurer- Ivy Huddleston
Reporter-Katy Kelley
Sentinel- Taylor Bohuslar
Jr. Advisor- Kale Jones

Reminder that the FFA Highway clean up is tomorrow morning at 9:30. We will be meeting at Tiger stadium on the side closest to 35! Hope to see lots of people out to help!

Tidehaven FFA and Junior FFA will be doing a highway clean up on the morning of May 11th that stretches the two miles in front of the high school and junior high. Any and all are welcome and you can get volunteer hours for coming and helping! Please spread the word!

Today Ms. Mitchell’s horticulture and greenhouse classes started to plant our vegetables! We still have more to plant and will have a list soon of everything growing and for sale! We’re excited to finally be growing things in our new greenhouse! Thank you again to the Tidehaven ISD School Board for this amazing opportunity for our chapter and classrooms!

If you would like to participate in the calf scramble for county fair, please let Ms. Mitchell or Mr. Jones know asap and come get a form to fill out or the form can be found at the link below! Forms are due by this Thursday!!

matagordacountyfair.com

Tamales are being delivered at 3! You must bring a cooler to pick them up in!

Don’t forget that tamale pick up is tomorrow afternoon! You will need to bring a cooler to put your tamales in!!

Junior FFA meeting tomorrow at 6:30 in Mr. Jones’ room!

Last day for mum and garter orders! Please send Ms. Mitchell an email ASAP if you’re needing one!

Help support your Tidehaven High School Floral Department and show your tiger pride at the same time! Please contact Ms. Mitchell ASAP to get your order in!❤️💙

Help support your Tidehaven High School Floral Department and show your tiger pride at the same time! Please contact Ms. Mitchell ASAP to get your order in!❤️💙

Huge thank you to everyone who donated and helped achieve our highest number of items EVER for stock the stock trailer with our total at over 12,000 items!!!
Shout out to Mrs. Capaks kindergarten class at Markham that collected 8,288 items alone!!! Thank y’all so much for helping with this amazing cause!!

Please join us this coming Monday in the cafeteria for end of the year FFA Banquet. Members, family and friends are welcome!

Some of our Tidehaven FFA members have helped grow some plants for people in our community to buy and plant in their garden. The money raised will go towards our chapter. It is $2.50 a six pack. If you would like any please contact Ms. Mitchell or Mr. Jones. The plants we have are listed below!

Easy peasy peas (5)
Gold rush garden beans (5)
Poinsettia cucumbers (22)
Okra (22)
Zucchini (12)
Crooknecked squash (23)
Spaghetti squash (26)
Pumpkin (30 individual plants)
Pickling cucumbers (14)
White bush squash (17)
Butternut squash (23)
Straight neck squash (23)

Attention exhibitors!! If you are in the live auction you need to pick up your sale numbers by 7 PM tonight!!!

Come out to support you local kiddos tomorrow at the live auction! It begins at 10 AM! Or just come by to say hello and see the hard work they’ve put into raising their animals!😊

Congratulations to all of our Tidehaven FFA members who showed this week at the MCFLA! We’re all so proud of y’all! Here are some results from the week! If I missed anyone or there is an error please let me know!

2023 MCLFA Results

Pen of 3
Shawn Sneath-white ribbon
Emma Piwonka- white ribbon

Rabbits
Gavin Saha- Grand Champion Rabbits
Rilyn Hackfeld-white ribbon and Reserve Grand Intermediate Showmanship

Sheep
Brinkley Hurta- 3rd place medium weight and Reserve Champion Junior Showmanship

Goats
Sophie Borchardt- white ribbon
Cheryl Saha-3rd place Medium Heavy Goat
Reserve Champion Senior Showmanship

Pigs
Allyson Lucio- 4th place light weight
Paul Ryan Sones- medium light weight class champion
Bode Sones- 8th place place medium light
Kyza Rozner- 9th place medium light
Emma Murry-3rd place medium
Macie Gardner- 4th place medium heavyweight
Carson Crow- 3rd place medium heavyweight
Kale Jones- Heavyweight Reserve Class Champion; Grand Champion Senior Showmanship
Stratton Crow- Super heavy weight class champion; Reserve Grand Champion; Grand Champion Intermediate Showmanship

Steers
Bryce Sliva- Reserve Class Champion AOB Lightweight
Maria Garcia- Red ribbon
Guillermo Lopez- white ribbon

Congratulations to all of our rabbit exhibitors! Gavin Saha got Grand Champion Rabbits this morning and Rilyn Hackfeld got Reserve Grand Champion Intermediate Showmanship! Awesome job guys!!!!