The Ministry of Agriculture and Food is working together with the Ministry of Education and Child Care, B.C. school districts, and food supply chain partners to integrate Feed BC into Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K-12) school food programs through the Province’s Feeding Futures initiative.   Feed BC is a program that supports K-12 school food programs to source...Read More

Our team at the University of SK is very pleased to announce that our mini-guide, Feeding Our Culture: Connecting Food Literacy Education & Indigenous Culture Programs is officially published! Thank you to all of our contributors! The guide offers lots of ideas for engaging students in traditional food skills, recommendations for activity planning and respecting...Read More

Photo Voice is a relational, story-based practice grounded in Indigenous and decolonial approaches. This method treats images and stories as gifts, centers participant voices, and prioritizes care, consent, and community meaning-making.  In our February 18 workshop, Gladys Rowe shared Photo Voice as a research tool as well as a way of deep listening. The conversation...Read More

In April 2024, the Government of Canada announced a one-billion-dollar commitment over five years for the development of a national school food program. Currently, Canadian schools are using a range of different approaches to monitor and evaluate programs, such as counting participation, costing, and more. It’s important to engage in consistent and comparable evaluations to show the value of...Read More

At Farm to Cafeteria Canada, we are honored to support school communities as they define their own paths toward food sovereignty. Recently, Mary Jane Naveau Memorial School (MJNMS) in Mattagami First Nation, Ontario hosted an inspiring Community Conversation, a key component of their journey within our Indigenous Foodways in Schools grant stream. The event, held...Read More

New Germany Rural High School, New Germany, NS Grant term 2024-2026 My name is Mike Wilson. I have been teaching history and agriculture for nearly twenty years in the small rural community of New Germany, Nova Scotia. Our school is named New Germany Rural High School and we are made up of 307 students from...Read More