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Mar

Canada’s Food Guide: People, Place and Planet in Mind

March 23, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

ON March 21, the CDN government released a report outlining proposed guiding principles and recommendations to inform the development of a new Food Guide, based on data gathered through a pan-Canadian public consultation process. As expected there was strong support for tools to help Canadians increase their intake of water, and fruits and vegetables and...

Mar

Nourish Webinar: Collaborative Projects Public Kickoff

March 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Videos, Webinar

Are you interested by the role that better food can play in delivering better health care? The Nourish leadership program has kicked off 5 collaborative projects and is looking for your engagement. Each team approaches a different dimension of the disconnect between food in health care, for example: better understanding the patient experience of food...

Mar

Community Forums Seek to Connect People with Food

March 16, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

AUNDECK OMNI KANING––Supporters of Manitoulin’s local food movement, both existing and newbies, gathered at the Four Directions Complex in Aundeck Omni Kaning on March 7 for the second of four Cultivating Food Sovereignty community forums. The forums are intended to provide a space for knowledge-sharing and collaboration. “These community forums are a part of the...

Mar

Women Who Feed the Islands

March 12, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Lynda Dixon started growing organic, islands-grown produce at Maude Island Farm in 1994. (Jason Shafto/Love Haida Gwaii) Celebrating women’s efforts as foragers, farmers, and pillars of food security on Haida Gwaii How are women working to harvest local foods, feed community, and promote food security on Haida Gwaii – one of the most remote island...

Mar

Growing Closer to Home

March 9, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Photo: From left, Toby Rowe and Tim Walsh shovel compost at the community garden. Courtesy of: Chris Hammond Memorial’s community garden: Sustainability from the ground up Historically, Newfoundland and Labrador’s geographic isolation meant the residents of this province had no choice but to grow and gather their fresh food. Not anymore. Today, the vast majority...

Mar

Backpacks of Local Food

March 8, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

Schools in the Headwaters Region are signing up for backpacks of Local Food—if you’re in the area, you can too! “I championed bringing Local Food Club to my children’s school because I want to support sustainable local food and farming,” Lisa Mychajluk tells us, “and create as many opportunities as possible to talk about food issues...

Feb

News Release: A Fresh Crunch in School Lunch

February 15, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Funding, In the News, Stories from the field

News Release For Immediate Release New funds and tools for New Brunswick schools to get more of the local harvest in the minds and on the plates of students. February 14, 2018 Fredericton NB – Farm to Cafeteria Canada and our partners – the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Fisheries, the Public Health...

Feb

Horticultural Society’s support the latest boost to Vic High garden

February 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Victoria Horticultural Society president Margaret Hantiuk (from left), joins gardening enthusiasts and Vic High students Kiara Chesson and Eden Murray in the school’s vegetable and herb garden next to the greenhouse. The society helped out the school’s gardening efforts recently with a $500 donation. Photo contributed Gardening project as much about education as it is...

Feb

Schools Learn the Benefits and Joys of Gardening in Manitoba’s North

February 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Photo Credits: HBOIERC Photography Students HELEN BETTY OSBORNE ININIW EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE Norway House, Manitoba We first started gardening in our school during the 2016-17 school year. We purchased 60 Rubbermaid containers and placed them in an open area at the center of our school. Each class was assigned a bin and were responsible, during the...

Feb

Heart and Stroke: Time to Curb our Appetite for Ultra-processed Food

February 8, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field

Research reveals half our daily calories come from ultra-processed foods, and that kids are the biggest consumers New research commissioned by Heart & Stroke shows that ultra-processed food consumption in Canada continues to increase and is alarmingly high, accounting for almost half of our daily calorie intake. Most troubling is that young people get more than half...