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Heydon Park’s Salad Bar Story

July 3, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Heydon Park Secondary, Toronto, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) Heydon Park Secondary School is Toronto District School Board’s only all-female high school that provides programming for students with learning challenges to help each student reach their full potential. We run both a credit and non-credit program for just over 150 students where we focus on a...

Jun

Edward Milne Community School’s Farm to School Programs are Growing!

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Edward Milne Community School, Sooke, BC Grades 9-12 660 Students, including 70 International Students and 118 of Indigenous Ancestry 2017-2018 (Year 2) At Edward Milne Community School, our students are serving up fresh, local veggies from our salad bar four days a week, 30 week of the year – that’s 2,000 salads served! When I...

Jun

Eastdale CI’s Salad Bar Story

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Eastdale Collegiate High School, Toronto ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) Eastdale CI is a small high school located on the East side of downtown Toronto. Our school community is tiny, especially for a Toronto high school. We serve about 100 exceptional students who travel to our school from diverse communities across the city of Toronto. Our...

Robert F Hall Community Secondary School, Caledon East, ON

Jun

Robert F Hall CSS is growing!

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Robert F Hall Community Secondary School, Caledon East, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) With our second year quickly coming to a close, Robert F Hall CSS in Caledon East has had a year of many opportunities and challenges to add to the mix. We continued having our grade 11 and 12 hospitality classes prepare a large...

Jun

Gourmet Salads with Local Grown Flavour

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Evergreen Independent School, Cobblehill, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Evergreen Independent School is located in Cobble Hill, BC, a small semi-rural community in the lush Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Home to 100 students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 7, Evergreen has a flourishing food literacy program that has recently been enhanced by the Farm to...

Perry Sound High School, Perry Sound, ON

Jun

Parry Sound High School is Digging In!

June 28, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Parry Sound High School, Parry Sound, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) This year at Parry Sound High School, students from Ms. Collins and Mr.Graziottio class were able to follow food they planted in our box gardens all the way through to a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. The Farm to School grant has had a significant impact at...

Jun

Volunteers Make Salads Zing

June 28, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Lake Trail Middle School, Courtany, BC Total Number of Students: 331 in our school 2017-2018 (Year 2) The heart of Lake Trail School’s Weekly Salad Bar program is a core group of incredibly dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. This group of 10 volunteers show up religiously every Tuesday to prep the salad bar ingredients for service...

Jun

Taking Back Our Cafe!

June 27, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Quinte Secondary School, Belleville, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) Quinte Secondary School is located 2 hours west of Toronto Ontario in a city of about 70,000. Our high school is in the center of the city and has about 600 students. We are in our 4th year of “taking back our Café”. We have hired chef...

Jun

Growing Wellness at Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary School

June 27, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary, Hazelton, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary School is located in the village of Gitanmaax, in the Upper Skeena region of Northwestern BC, located on Gitxsan Territory. The beautiful Stekyoden Mountain overlooks the school, with the Bulkley and Skeena rivers flowing by below it. The school teaches just over...

Jun

Reynolds Farm In School Supports Salad Bar

June 27, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Reynolds Secondary School, Victoria, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) 1200 students Program Coordinator: Teacher, Heather Coey The first year of our salad program began in September 2010 after starting a food garden in our inner courtyard in 2008 in Victoria BC, Canada. The garden space was a diamond in the rough and has now flourished into...