Shawna and Chris grew up in western Kansas towns.  Chris is a 1992 graduate of Scott Community High School in Scott City.  Shawna is a 1998 graduate of Dighton High School.  After high school Chris went to 3 years of college then served 2 ½ years in the United States Army.  In 1998 he went back to college and received a biology degree with an emphasis in Rangeland Management from Ft. Hays State University.  After high school Shawna attended two years of college at Hutchison Community College.  She then went to Massage Therapy school in Colorado Springs.  The two met in 2000 and married in 2003.  They have three lovely children, Tyler 21, Treyden 19, and Avery 17.  Tyler and Treyden are both serving in the U.S. Army at Ft. Drum New York.  Chris started working for the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service in 2001 and retired in 2025.  Shawna worked as massage therapist for 21 years and both are now working full-time at Teck Farms.

Tecklenburg Farms LLC was established on September 1, 2016, by Chris and Shawna Tecklenburg.  The Mission at Tecklenburg Farms is to make nutritious food more affordable and accessible to all, serve the community, promote stewardship, and educate on health and wellness.  The small 6-acre urban farm is in a neighborhood on the west side of Hendricks and 13th in Hutchinson, Kansas.  Our small urban farm is certified as organic and operated by resourceful agriculturists who combine entrepreneurship, business skills, family labor, and knowledge to produce food and fiber products consumed by the local people. Chris and Shawna created Glenwood Gardens Health and Wellness Foundation in 2017 to promote “a healthy way of life through the education of growing and consuming nutritious food.”