February 12, 2020 - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

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February 12, 2020

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Liberals Set Table for School-food Program, Warned to Avoid Top-down Approach

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Students at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss., eat lunch in the school’s cafeteria on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. The federal Liberals are being told to avoid creating a one-size-fits-all national school-food program.Rogelio V. Solis / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Joanne Bays, Farm to Cafeteria’s National Director, hit the ground running in with her first interview...

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What is it like to eat at Canada’s Largest University?

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Reilley Plue The University of Toronto (UofT) is Canada’s largest university, with over 90,000 students across three campuses (Mississauga, St. George, and Scarborough). This means a lot of mouths to feed! The largest of the three campuses, St. George, caters to over 61,000 full-time students and is located downtown where there is no shortage...

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UBC: A leader in sustainable and just food systems

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Neal Cameron The University of British Columbia has been a leader in moving food service procurement towards supporting more sustainable and just food systems. As the first Fair Trade Certified Campus in Canada and the first Canadian university to purchase exclusively OceanWise seafood, UBC has shown a commitment to engaging in food system change....

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The Journey: Taking St. Jerome’s University’s Food System to the Next Level

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Jae Doncillo You hear it all the time: Vision Matters. Vision dictates an organization’s trajectory. It informs the decisions that are made on the ground. It is the basis of why products exist the way that they do and why services are executed the way that they are. Vision is what creates experiences. But...

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Good Food Market for Ryerson University

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Kaitlin Rizarri Ryerson University (RU) Students’ Good Food Market was started by two key student leaders, Maria Jude and Kimberly Vaz. Both have made significant changes to Ryerson University’s state of student food insecurity. Kimberly ran a referendum so that the Good Food Centre, the school’s food bank, could receive guaranteed funding. Maria launched...

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Meet Sanjana – Student Champion of Good Food Access at Lakehead University

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

Photo Credit: Amy Hadley, CBC By Sanjana Sharma My name is Sanjana and I’m a second-year Computer Science student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. I found my passion for food when I started working on Meal Exchange’s Students Feeding Change project on my campus earlier this year, and understood that not having access to...

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Where do we go from here? A look at food at Humber College

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

Photo: Robin picking tea in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, wearing a hat with an attached mesh bag that holds the plucked tea. By Robin Sagi, Good Food Challenge Coordinator at Humber Over $300 million is spent by educational institutions on food annually in Canada. Meal Exchange, a Canadian charity, is working to help students and...