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Growing Up Organic

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Heritage Public School in Navan, Ottawa, Ontario is pretty proud of our new veggie gardens built by parent council and community volunteers. Here’s an article published in our local newspaper as well as some pictures. During the 16/17 school year, Heritage Public School’s parent council in Navan came across a program called Growing Up Organic,...

Oct

School Greenhouse Launched in St. John’s!

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

Article by Food First NL, provincial F2CC lead in Newfoundland and Labrador for Farm to School St. Bonaventure’s College in St. John’s, NL was a recipient of the Farm to School Month prize in 2016 for $1500. With those funds, along with matching funds from school donors, students and volunteers recently built the school a...

Oct

Nourish Aims to Change the Narrative of Food in Healthcare

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field, Videos

Hayley Lapalme I have long wondered if it’s a coincidence that the kitchens in hospitals are often in the basement. Prioritization of food in healthcare is often pit against clinical priorities, rather than seen as complementary. Common refrains I’ve heard from healthcare include, “It’s food or the MRI,” or “If a patient is well enough...

Oct

New Brunswick Acts to Increase the Amount of Local Food in School Cafeterias

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

In 2016, the Government of New Brunswick launched its Local Food and Beverage Strategy, Buy/Achetez NB. Among the strategy’s objectives was improved availability of local food and beverages. Including more local products in schools was identified as an opportunity to that end. As a result, one of the key actions identified within the strategy was...

Oct

Good Food For All: National Summit Unites Campus Students

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

Here at Meal Exchange we are celebrating the success of one of our favourite events of the year, the National Student Food Summit! Thes annual national gatherings to support and empower students on college and university campuses across Canada to take an active role in creating a just, sustainable, and resilient food system, and the...

Oct

More Local Organic Food in Quebec Institutions!

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Équiterre is a Quebec-based organization offering concrete solutions to accelerate the transition towards a society in which individuals, organizations, and governments make ecological choices that are both healthy and equitable. Since its inception, Équiterre has aimed among other things to increase the consumption of local organic food. Through the development and coordination of a network...

Oct

Farm to School Alive and Well in Saanich

October 13, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

I remember the feel of that bean in my hand, so smooth and shiny. We planted them into the soil in the white styrofoam cups and then lined them up along the windowsill in our classroom. Even though we knew it was going to happen, it seemed a wonder to see the first sprout push...

Oct

Students Dig In to Finish Harvesting Garden Produce

October 13, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Picking the last of the harvest and cleaning up the greenhouse and outside bed on Wednesday Oct. 4. Photo submitted The W.L. McLeod Farm to School harvesting has finished for the 2017 growing season. Over the past three weeks, roughly 70 students from Kindergarten to Grade 4 have been picking, pulling and digging fresh vegetables...

Oct

Farm to School a Growing Program

October 13, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Farm to School program at Edward Milne Community School teaches food literacy Understanding where food comes from is key October is Farm to School Month across Canada and the U.S.A . and it comes at a time of year when, in a more agrarian past, every child would have been aware of the harvesting of...

Oct

Conducting Food Origin Audits

October 12, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare

A Step-by-Step Guide – St. Joseph’s Health System St. Joseph’s Heath System created a guide to help organizations and institutions conduct food origin audits. The guide includes steps involved in food origin audits, details, and examples for each of the steps, as well as useful tools, such as a template for a letter of endorsement....