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Jan

Residents of the Bow Valley Gather for Local School Food!

January 10, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Inspired by the farm to school Learning Circle model, in March of 2022, the Let’s Gather! event hosted in Canmore, AB encouraged community members in the Bow Valley to connect and spark dialogue around local and resilient food systems by exploring this theme through the lens of school food. This post shares what inspired the...

Nov

Native Farm to School Guide

November 21, 2022F2CC adminUncategorized

Connecting Traditional Foods, Stories, Language, and Community Developed through an analysis of Native and non-Native Farm to School programs, the Native Farm to School Guide: Connecting Traditional Foods, Stories, Language, and Community guide identifies best practices, lessons learned, biggest challenges and case studies of successful programs. The Guide also outlines planning activities, assessment tools, and...

May

Kings County Academy’s Transition from a Contracted Food Service Provider to a PTA-Run Cafeteria

May 30, 2022F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, Home Page Blog Feed

Kings County Academy (KCA) is a pre-primary to grade 8 school located in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with an early French Immersion stream. KCA has a strong partnership with the municipal Parks and Recreation Department and a long history of a vibrant and dedicated Parent Teacher Association (PTA). The school has an enrollment of 630 students...

May

Kweselkten Agriculture Guide

May 17, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

The Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Interior First Nations (CFDC of CIFN) developed this Kweselkten Agricultural guide. This guide provides information about agriculture techniques and activities through conversation with local producers living and growing food within the Secwépemc territory, including Tk’emlups, Simpcw, and Skeetchestn, and well as on Nlaka’pamux territory. In this guide, you...

May

Grow Food Everywhere: An Intergenerational School Garden Pilot in Comox Valley

May 2, 2022F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, Home Page Blog Feed

This report summarizes the Intergenerational School Garden Pilot Program that took place in BC’s Comox Valley between April 2021 to November 2021. In it, you’ll find practical tips, as well as outlines for student activities. The pilot program outlined in the report demonstrates how 8 participating schools in School District 71, with the help of...

Feb

How Farm to School Supports Climate Action

February 17, 2022F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Skeetchestn Community School garden, Kamloops, BC At Farm to Cafeteria Canada, we’ve been thinking a lot about the role that school food programs can play in climate action. After all, the way that food is handled all along the food supply chain impacts our energy, water and land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil...

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...

Aug

State Farm to School Policy Handbook: 2002-2020

August 12, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Our neighbours to the south, National Farm to School Network, and the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School are pleased to announce the release of the updated State Farm to School Policy Handbook: 2002-2020! The Handbook summarizes and analyzes all 546 farm to school bills and resolutions introduced between 2002 and 2020 from the 50...

May

LCHS’s EcoVision Case Study: Growing Ecological Leaders

May 27, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Lacombe Composite High School (LCHS) in Alberta has a remarkable EcoVision Club that is inspiring and empowering students to become ecological leaders. The club runs student-led projects that are working to improve the quality of the air, land and water and that demonstrate a really strong model of farm to school in action. All of...

Apr

École St Denis Case Study: Involving Students in Farm to School

April 19, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

The salad bar at École Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Québec) École Saint-Denis is an elementary school located in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Montérégie, Quebec and it received a Farm to School Salad Bar grant in 2018. The school has had a lot of success involving its students in the operation of the salad bar and integrating it into the curriculum....