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

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

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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...
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# **McMurray Métis donate outdoor classrooms to Fort McMurray Catholic, public schools**> The donations include all-weather tents, podiums, heaters and benches. Designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn land-based education programming outdoors, Myers believes they were also a sign of cooperation between the community and the respective school boards.The school also features an **Indigenous healing garden where students can learn about traditional uses of the plants. **Principal Mark Dolmont said that the legacies of residential schools have also been incorporated into lesson plans.www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/10/25/mcmurray-mtis-donate-outdoor-classrooms-to-fort-mcmurray-c...#farm2school #landbasedlearning #schoolgarden #indigenousfoodways ... See MoreSee Less
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# **Grant Opportunity!****In response to the challenges that Covid has presented, The Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund (IPRF) is hoping to support urgent community needs.****Eligibility: **Any Indigenous-led organization working to foster resilience in Inuit, Metis and First Nations communities anywhere in Canada can apply for resiliency support ranging from $5,000 to $30,000. Examples of eligible projects are outlined. **More information and application below! 👇**communityfoundations.ca/initiatives/indigenous-peoples-resilience-fund/Community Foundations of Canada #indigenous #Inuit #metis #firstnations #grants ... See MoreSee Less

Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund — Community Foundations of Canada

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An Indigenous-led effort to respond to urgent community needs while taking a long-term view on building community resilience.
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# **How do YOU practice and celebrate Land-Based Learning?****One week left in Farm to School Month 2021! We've loved sharing our land-based resources with you as well as celebrating how we connect to the land and how we can be more rooted in it's knowledge. **📢 >>>**Now we'd would love to hear from you**! Many people feel varying degrees of connection to the land. How do your students, schools or communities practice that connection? Post and tag us, send us an email, or reply below and add a photo if you have one!<<<Here's a few examples from our grant schools...🌱 **École Louis-de-France's** salad bar is filled with produce from their 23 school gardens! bit.ly/3BcsUmb🌊 **Agnes L Mathers** students spend lots of time outdoors, whether at the beach searching and discovering, picking locally grown apples for the school salad bar or in their new second greenhouse. bit.ly/3Cg8AS2🚜 **Knowlton Academy's** “Secret Garden” gives students the opportunity to learn about the different production and harvesting phases of the food they eat. bit.ly/2ZmqiFa#farm2school #farmtoschoolmonth #landbasedlearning #handsonlearning ... See MoreSee Less

The "Secret Garden" supplies the salad bar with tasty, local, seasonal ingredients - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

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Knowlton Academy, Lac-Brome, Québec 2020-2022 (Grant Year 2) The Knowlton Academy project, located in Lac-Brome in the Montérégie region, aims to strengthen the local economy by building new partne...
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