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Jul

Sk’elep Food Sovereignty Program Feeds Evacuees

July 6, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Sk’elep School is one of our 2020 salad bar grant recipients and part of a learning circle from fall 2019- spring 2021. PRESS RELEASE – Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, July 6, 2021 Q’wemtsin Health Society (QHS) and Sk’elep School of Excellence have been working in partnership on a food sovereignty program and are thrilled to be...

Jun

Heritage Public School – Connecting Kids During Covid

June 23, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Heritage Public School, Navan, Ontario 267 students, grades JK-8 2020-2021 (Grant Year 1) When we received our F2S Grant in October 2020, Heritage Public School’s staff, students and local community were elated at the idea of bringing fresh, local foods and food literacy programming into the classroom. The plan for the 2020-21 school year included...

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

Celebrate Earth Day Every Day with Farm to School!

April 20, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo credit : École Louis-de-France, Trois-rivières, Québec Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd! The theme for 2021 is Restore Our Earth, with a focus on “natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems.” Farm to Cafeteria Canada’s vision is vibrant and sustainable regional food systems that support...

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....

Mar

Roots to Harvest Case Study: Outdoor Food Literacy deemed an “Essential Service” during COVID-19

March 24, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Roots to Harvest is a non-profit organization that offers employment and experiential education opportunities in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Their mission is to use food as a tool to connect people to one another and build belonging and dignity through meaningful programs, initiatives and advocacy. Roots to Harvest’s many programs illustrate their broad mandate: Youth employment...

Mar

Huband Park Elementary’s Salad Bar: Safely Adapting to COVID-19

March 24, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

School food programs everywhere have had to adapt to COVID-19 over the past year, and this of course includes our Salad Bar Grantees. The following case study shares the story of Huband Park Elementary School in Courtenay, British Columbia, who have been able to pivot to the new reality with great success. This shift has...

Mar

A Salad Bar Success Case Study: St. Dominic & St. Luke in Oakville, Ontario

March 1, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

St. Dominic Catholic Elementary School and St. Luke Catholic Elementary School, two of our Farm to School Canada Grant recipients located in Oakville, Ontario, have found great success in delivering their salad bar lunch programs through a business model launched by two parents, Stacey Bean and Jill O’Reilley. To share how they’ve been able to...

Jan

Abbey-Landry School Case Study: Implementing a salad bar with the support of community partners

January 20, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Abbey-Landry School is an elementary school (K-8) located in Memramcook, New Brunswick with a student population of approximately 400. Memramcook is a village with a population of about 5000. The school successfully implemented a salad bar with the support of several local organizations such as Semer dans la Vallée, Apprentis en Action and the réseau...

Dec

Webinar Recap: School Food Programming in Ontario in a time of COVID-19

December 18, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Tools/Toolkit, Videos, Webinar

Given all of the restrictions in schools due to COVID-19, school food champions in Ontario are doing what they can to figure out how to continue to advance food literacy programs. Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network hosted a lively webinar on November 17, 2020, to discuss School Food Programming in Ontario in a time of...