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Heart and Stroke: Time to Curb our Appetite for Ultra-processed Food

February 8, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, 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

Farm to School: Canada Digs In! Video

December 2, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Resource Centre: What is F2S?, Videos

This inspiring video captures the voices and images of several key champions and success stories in the rapidly growing Farm to School movement across Canada. It highlights how Farm to School is getting healthy, local, sustainable food on the minds and on the plates of students. It was filmed in British Columbia, New Brunswick, and...

Nov

The Business Of Getting Affordable, Local Food onto the Plates Of New Brunswickers

November 24, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Tomavo on Mountain Road in Moncton tries hard to stock as much local produce as it can. Image: Tomavo Facebook page. MONCTON – Businesses are teaming up with non-profit organizations, government agencies, public institutions, community groups and farmers to get healthy, low-cost, local food onto the plates of New Brunswickers. The ways local businesses are trying...

CONNECTING THE SEAMS OF PATIENT CARE THROUGH FOOD.

Oct

Connecting the Seams of Patient Care With Food

October 17, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field

When someone gets sick and goes to the hospital, they do not see the healthcare system as parts but take a continuous personal journey through it. It doesn’t matter which hospital they enter or what treatment or services; patients tend to take in one overall experience towards recovery. However, when there are gaps, they...

Oct

Nourish Aims to Change the Narrative of Food in Healthcare

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field, Videos

Hayley Lapalme I have long wondered if it’s a coincidence that the kitchens in hospitals are often in the basement. Prioritization of food in healthcare is often pit against clinical priorities, rather than seen as complementary. Common refrains I’ve heard from healthcare include, “It’s food or the MRI,” or “If a patient is well enough...

Oct

More Local Organic Food in Quebec Institutions!

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Équiterre is a Quebec-based organization offering concrete solutions to accelerate the transition towards a society in which individuals, organizations, and governments make ecological choices that are both healthy and equitable. Since its inception, Équiterre has aimed among other things to increase the consumption of local organic food. Through the development and coordination of a network...

Oct

Conducting Food Origin Audits

October 12, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare

A Step-by-Step Guide – St. Joseph’s Health System St. Joseph’s Heath System created a guide to help organizations and institutions conduct food origin audits. The guide includes steps involved in food origin audits, details, and examples for each of the steps, as well as useful tools, such as a template for a letter of endorsement....

Oct

My Sustainable Canada’s Local Food and Ontario’s Long Term Care Sector Report

October 12, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Publications, Stories from the field

This report documents the current state of local food usage in Ontario’s long-term care sector. Most of the 600+ homes in Ontario do not track local food usage and many report barriers to adding these items to their menus. With an estimated annual raw food spend in excess of $210 million, Ontario’s long-term care sector...

Aug

Five Big Ideas for a Better Food System

August 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Policy, Stories from the field

A PROPOSAL FROM FOOD SECURE CANADA FOR THE NATIONAL FOOD POLICY Canadians are concerned with the health and sustainability of the food they eat, and, as more and more people struggle to put good food on the table, our food system has become an issue of increasing priority. Unhealthy diets claim more lives than any...

Aug

Pop Up Garden in Collingwood, Ontario

August 11, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

(Taken from Growing Connection Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheGrowingConnection) Folks in Collingwood are catching on to the value of the TGC Pop Up garden, installed in early June…. Health & Taste is at hand, immediately, daily… Please share this video. Perhaps people everywhere will start to realize that the empty lot down the street, a future construction site,...