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Crawford Bay Elementary School, Crawford Bay, BC

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Crawford Bay School Loves Growing Good Food

February 2, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Crawford Bay Elementary School, Crawford Bay, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) In our rural K-12 school in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, many students have created a special relationship with their garden. One of the contributing factors has been that all plants have been started by seed and were planted by the students themselves. Working...

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...

A few of the Hillcrest gardeners, including, from left, teacher Marc Merhebi, and students Connor Campbell, Aidyn Bulmer and Cameron LeBlanc. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

Jan

Middle School Students Who Really Don’t Want a Snow Day

January 25, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Attendance is up at Moncton’s Hillcrest School, thanks to a class project building a hydroponic lettuce garden Every time he walks into the classroom that is now home to a hydroponic garden, with 72 heads of lettuce, middle school teacher Marc Merhebi is “full-on flabbergasted.” The classroom at Hillcrest School in Moncton has been transformed by his science...

Jan

Raising the Salad Bar! Farm to School Canada Grant Program 2018 Press Releases

January 25, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Funding, Stories from the field

Call for Projects to Raise the Salad Bar in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Schools. St. John’s, NL – Food First NL, Farm to Cafeteria Canada, and the Whole Kids Foundation are launching a call for projects for schools that want to make student access to healthy, local and sustainable food a priority. Thanks to a new...

Jan

Farm To Cafeteria Canada Offering $10,000 Grants. Should Your School Apply?

January 16, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

When I first heard about Farm to Cafeteria Canada grants I immediately asked if they wanted to write a guest post explaining how they work. Happily Carolyn Webb, the Coordinator of Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network, was able to do so. – Yoni Freedhoff, www.weightymatters.ca Check out this quote from NorKam Senior Secondary in Kamploops, BC, “This...

Jan

Ontario’s University Students Want Quality, Local Food

January 11, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Salad bar at Massachusetts General Hospital uses a traffic light label system. (David MacIntosh/CBC) ‘Students have some really strong values around food,’ says Merryn Maynard of Meal Exchange Students at Ontario’s universities say they want good quality, local food options when they’re eating on campus, a new report says. The campus food report card...

Jan

Iqaluit High School Cooks up Free-lunch Program

January 4, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Students line up for lunch at Iqaluit’s Inuksuk High School on Dec. 7. The new accessible lunch program is making healthy food a priority for students. (PHOTOS BY BETH BROWN) School-grown veggies featured in free meals to help feed hungry students Students at Inuksuk High School aren’t just eating their greens; they’re growing them, too....

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

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...

Dec

F2CC Fact Sheets

December 4, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Publications, Resource Centre: What is F2S?

This set of 2 informative fact sheets concisely covers a great deal of important information. Primarily acting as a set of simple ‘two-pagers’, these documents offer a focused form of communication to those who are unfamiliar with Farm to Cafeteria Canada, and how it is unique, yet aligned with the Farm to School movement. The...