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Mar

16 Opportunities for Food in Health Care

March 28, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field, Tools/Toolkit

This infographic by Nourish: Future of Food in Health Care shares the various opportunities available to health care institutions in Canada to leverage food as a way to improve patient, organization and community outcomes. Download the full infographic as a PDF or explore it online below. This infographic was developed with the support of Canadian Association of Physicians for the...

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

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

From Field Trips to Salad Bar Equipped

February 12, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Colquitz Middle School, Victoria BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) We had been waiting for 5 years to get a school learning garden and the F2CC grant clinched the deal with a ground breaking in June 2017. In those past 5 years we have offered F2S lunches, with 83 lunch served in that span of time! It...

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...

Jan

Students on Campus want Better Quality in their Residence Dining Halls

January 29, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News

Photo: Dining hall server John Youkhana always tells the kids that when they head home they should always “take their laundry, and bring food back.” He lived in Saugeen-Maitland Hall during his undergrad, and says the food has not changed. Photographed on Jan. 12, 2018. Carmen Mallia / GAZETTE First-year medical sciences student Alexander Allegro sits...

Jan

Raising the Salad Bar! Farm to School Canada Grant Program 2018 Press Releases

January 25, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Funding, Stories from the field

Call for Projects to Raise the Salad Bar in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Schools. St. John’s, NL – Food First NL, Farm to Cafeteria Canada, and the Whole Kids Foundation are launching a call for projects for schools that want to make student access to healthy, local and sustainable food a priority. Thanks to a new...

Jan

Building Strong Sense of Community, Equality and Belonging Around the Table

January 25, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Lucerne Elementary-Secondary School, New Denver, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) The North Slocan Food Program is based in the small mountain village of New Denver in the West Kootenays. Facilitated by the Healthy Community Society, it centres on activities at Lucerne Elementary Secondary School in SD #10 Arrow Lakes. The Farm to School program has given a...

Jan

Iqaluit High School Cooks up Free-lunch Program

January 4, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Students line up for lunch at Iqaluit’s Inuksuk High School on Dec. 7. The new accessible lunch program is making healthy food a priority for students. (PHOTOS BY BETH BROWN) School-grown veggies featured in free meals to help feed hungry students Students at Inuksuk High School aren’t just eating their greens; they’re growing them, too....