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Apr

Raising the Bar!

April 18, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Stories from the field

A look at the early impact of the Farm to School Canada Grant Program Throughout Canada and the United States, a momentum of activity is taking place to get fresh healthy foods from nearby farms, lands, and waters into the minds and onto the plates of students. Sparked by motivation to improve student nutrition, food...

Apr

Food Literacy for Life

April 5, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Publications

Food literacy is increasingly recognized as an important influence on eating patterns. (1, 2) Currently, there is no reliable tool to measure food literacy. The absence of a measurement tool along with a limited shared understanding of the comprehensive nature of food literacy makes it challenging for nutrition practitioners to assess the impact of food literacy...

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...

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...

Dec

Road Trip from Mexico to Canada: Experiencing Local Food

December 15, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

In the summer of 2017, I set out on a road trip from Monterrey, Mexico, to Toronto, Canada, filming a documentary series on North American local food initiatives. During this 4,800-kilometer (3,000-mile) journey, my co-creator and I had the privilege of meeting dozens of farmers, small-business owners, community organizers, and food advocates who shared an...

Dec

Time to Curb our Appetite for Ultra-processed Food

December 5, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Publications, Stories from the field

Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross Sectional Framework For Farm to School

Nov

Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross-Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm to School

November 29, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Evaluation, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Publications, Stories from the field

This is mostly the description on the NFSN’s website: Evaluation for Transformation defines the outcomes that farm to school has the potential to achieve and it offers common language, guidelines and metrics to understand those outcomes for the first time. The framework is organized around four key sectors: public health, community economic development, education and...

Nov

The Benefits of Farm to School

November 28, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Publications, Tools/Toolkit

This fact sheet offers a research-based overview of the benefits of farm to school and provides a list of sources. Stated benefits are provided under 5 themes: (1) Economic Development (Job Creation and Economic Activity; Farmer and Producer Income), (2) Public Health (Student Nutrition Behaviors; Knowledge, Attitudes and Access), (3) Education (Student Engagement and Academic...