Featured Resources Archives - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

Webinar Recording: Serving Traditional Indigenous Food In Schools

October 26, 2022F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

A recording is now available of the Indigenous School Food Circle‘s recent webinar on how school food programs are serving traditional Indigenous foods: The webinar features the following speakers: Clifford Gladue, Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Authority Scott Hall and Bruce Cutknife, Maskwacîs Education Schools Commission Candace Weir, Shelly Crack and Elizabeth Moore, Haida...

May

Q’wemtsín Health Society’s Indigenous Food Sovereignty Video Series

May 19, 2022F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities, Videos

Seed to Harvest, Language and Traditional Practices In collaboration with three communities; Skeetchestn Indian Band, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, the Q’wemtsín Health Society (QHS) has created a series of videos to promote growing and sharing food in their communities. Working with students, teachers, Elders, and knowledge keepers, each video teaches skills...

Nov

Hydroponics in the Classroom

November 26, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Hydroponics

Hydroponics systems are more popular than ever as a teaching tool in schools. With short growing seasons in many areas of Canada, hydroponics systems allow students to engage in experiential learning, year-round. In this blog post, we’ll equip you with the tools and resources you need to decide if hydroponics is right for your classroom...

Nov

Learning from the Land – A written compilation of resources and stories

November 18, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

“Learning from the Land: Resources and stories from K-12 schools engaging with Indigenous plants and pedagogy”, published in November 2021 by our BC project partner Public Health Agency of BC (PHABC), is a written compilation of resources and stories highlighting programs related to Indigenous plants and pedagogy within schools located in what is colonially known...

Oct

Quebec farm to school resource guide

October 13, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Getting Started

Équiterre has developed the guide Improving local food procurement in Quebec schools. This guide provides essential information and concrete tools to accompany Quebec schools as they develop healthy, local and environmentally responsible food initiatives. Check out the guide here!

Oct

Land-based Learning Resource List

October 1, 2021F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Photo credit: Government of BC and Feed BC, from Traditional foods and Indigenous recipes in B.C.’s public institutions Education about our local food system must tie back to the land and its histories and stories. Land-based learning involves learning from the land and water, and understanding and fostering our connection to them. Farm to school...

Oct

Teaching the Curriculum Through Food

October 1, 2021F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Curriculum, Videos

Farm to Cafeteria Canada and Growing Chefs! Ontario are proud to share our new Teaching the Curriculum Through Food video series. These short (5-20 min) videos have been developed, in a partnership between our two organizations, to support and inform teachers and volunteers across Canada who are looking to bring food literacy into their classrooms...

Sep

Nourish NS releases Local Food Lunch Toolkit

September 1, 2021F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

Are you looking to bring more locally-produced foods into your menus? Nourish Nova Scotia has developed an exciting Local Food Lunch Toolkit to serve up healthy, delicious and easy-to-make recipes for schools and families. While developed with Nova Scotia local products in mind, schools and families across the country can look to this new resource...

Aug

A Farm to School Evaluation Framework for Canada

August 31, 2021F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

Evaluation is important. It can help us understand the effects of our work, improve our programs, and share our stories of impact. But it can also be complex and tough to know where to start. F2CC, with the input of over 140 individuals from diverse sectors across the country, has developed the Farm to School...

Jan

Growing a Movement: Farm to School in the Comox Valley

January 11, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

The beautiful Comox Valley, is situated on the East Coast of Vancouver Island on the traditional territory of the K’ómoks First Nation. Farm to school programs and the salad bar model were first introduced in the area in 2012 at Huband Park Elementary School. Inspired by Huband’s success, École Robb Road Elementary and Lake Trail Community...