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Jun

F2CC’s own Scott Graham Helps Schools and Institutions Gain Access to Local Produce

June 27, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Uncategorized

Are you curious about who is at the helm of Farm to Cafeteria Canada? This candid interview with Scott Graham by Tracy Giesz, originally posted in www.capturequeue.com, provides some lovely insights! Scott is the Associate Executive Director of the Social Planning and Research Council, (F2CC’s fiscal sponsor Agency) and he is a member of F2CC’s Leadership Council. Tracy...

Jun

The Case for Carrots: A Healthy School Food Public-Private Partnership

June 20, 2016F2CC adminFarm to School, Nourishing School Communities

June 2016 – Nourishing School Communities (NSC) partners recently presented a case study and poster on the first two years of a public-private partnership with the Lunch Lady at the Transforming the Food Environment conference in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1993 by Ruthie Burd, the Lunch Lady is Canada’s largest privately-owned elementary school food provider....

F2CC to co-host Canada’s First National School Food Conference Montreal, November 12 to 14, 2015 Registration is Now Open

Jun

2015 Changing the Menu Conference Video

June 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Tools/Toolkit, Videos

Changing the Menu, the first-ever national school food conference in Canada took place on Nov 12-14, 2015 in Montreal. The conference was hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Farm to Cafeteria Canada and Équiterre. It was also brought to you by the partners of the Nourishing School Communities initiative.

Jun

From Uniformity to Diversity

June 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Farms, Publications, Stories from the field, Tools/Toolkit

A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems The evidence in favour of a major transformation of our food systems is now overwhelming. Many influential studies have helped shape our understanding of the perilous situation our food systems are in, from the degradation of ecosystems to the fragility of farmer livelihoods in many...

Jun

Plates, Pyramids, and Planet

June 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field, Tools/Toolkit

Developments in national healthy and sustainable dietary guidelines: a state of play assessment Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Food Climate Research Network at the University of Oxford The report evaluates government-issued food-based guidelines around the globe, assessing whether they link to environmental sustainability as well as personal health. Read the report...

May

Vic High Students Get Hands Dirty in School Garden

May 25, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: City Harvest Co-operative’s Heather Parker, second from right, plants squash on Tuesday with Vic High students, from left: Dani Birge, Alexis Cumpstone, Sterling Beeston and Eden Murray. Photograph By BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist – See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/vic-high-students-get-hands-dirty-in-school-garden-1.2257466#sthash.WHWPH1HM.dpuf Neatly kept beds full of carrots, lettuce, herbs and more fill a corner of the grounds at...

May

Q.E. II Public School Teaming Up with C-K Table to Offer Special Meal

May 25, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Queen Elizabeth II Public School students in Jenn Kranenburg’s Grade 3/4 class display one of the vegetable gardens they have planted at the Chatham, Ont. school on Friday May 20, 2016. Pictured clockwise from left, are: Kaydence Kronemoore, Tiara Blackbird, Trinity Walker, Mirah Coll, Caiden Coll, Jayden Ogle, Chloe Tetrault and Hannah Doey. Ellwood Shreve/Chatham...

May

Veggie Farm Run by Chilliwack Students for CSA This Summer

May 11, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Kids will be learning to grow food sustainably on the Sardis Secondary School Farm this summer. Not only that, SSS students will also be running a veggie bin business to supply 40 local families with fresh produce every week. “This will be the first year the students have a farm as a classroom,” said Agriculture...

College Heights Secondary School, Guelph ON

May

The Garden of Eatin’

May 11, 2016F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School

College Heights Secondary School, Guelph ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) This year’s theme for the College Heights Secondary School Salad Bar program has been “Connections!” In Guelph, Ontario we live in a City with a rich agricultural background. As a small vocational school with 400 students we have been able to connect to all corners of...

May

St. Mary’s French Immersion is Having Fun with Good Food

May 6, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Algoma Public Health is excited to support St. Mary’s French Immersion as they explore, grow, cook, taste and have fun with good food. To kick start the initiative, local Certified Organic Farmer, Fannie McFadden from McFadden’s Acres, spoke to the entire student body about where food comes from and what it’s like to be a...