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Federal Grants Help Schools Put Crunch in Their Lunch

June 27, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Stories from the field

Photo: Students at St. Bon’s in St. John’s got money from the Farm to School program last year and are already enjoying the fruits of their labour. (Food First NL) Funding will teach students about where their food comes from Three Newfoundland and Labrador schools are getting federal money to set up salad bars and composting programs,...

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Hanmer Students Line Up For Their Greens

June 26, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Ecole Secondaire Hanmer, Hamner, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) We owe much of the success of our Farm 2 School project to a very dedicated and hard working senior, M. Henri Dufresne. M. Henri is of the young age of 89 years old and lives near Ecole secondaire Hanmer, a small high school of 180 students....

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Join us in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia for our National Farm to School Conference

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School

SAVE THE DATE: May 15 – 17, 2019 We invite you to join us on Canada’s West Coast, in beautiful Victoria, BC – the traditional territory of the L’kwungen speaking people from the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and the SENĆOŦEN speaking people of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. This conference will gather over 450 expected participants from across the continent...

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Local Food Literacy in Schools: Q&A from Ontario

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Photo: Burlington Public Library, “Edible Library” In December 2017 Sustain Ontario released its Local Food Literacy in Schools: Frequently Asked Questions Guide to share ideas and useful resources with school champions who are bringing local food literacy into their classrooms. Since the release of the guide we have shared each of the 10 FAQs as a...

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Farm to School Impact Continues to Grow in Canada

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Funding, In the News, Stories from the field

…with 33 More Schools to Receive Grants For Immediate Release Vancouver, June 21, 2018 – Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) and Whole Kids Foundation (WKF) are thrilled to announce that a second round of Farm to School Canada grants, valued at up to $10,000 each, will be delivered to 33 schools across British Columbia, Ontario,...

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The growing local food movement in South Eastern New Brunswick schools

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Le Réseau des cafétérias communautaires and the source of the growing local food movement in South Eastern New Brunswick schools. In 2009, Rachel Schofield Martin could no longer stand seeing children at her school being fed processed or frozen foods. The Bouctouche, New Brunswick educator set herself a goal: abolish the contract between the school...

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A Journey Through Farm to School Diversity in BC

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

14 SCHOOLS, GARDENS, AND SALAD BARS AND A 4,000 KM TRIP Here in British Columbia, the month of May consisted of our two regional animators travelling the province to visit 14 of the 29 schools in BC that received a Farm to School (F2S) Salad Bar grant in 2016. With all of the schools now...

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Sharing the Ontario F2S Salad Bar Promotion Contest Entries!

June 6, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

From April 17 – May 15 2018, Farm to Cafeteria Canada ran a trial contest and invited Ontario elementary and secondary schools to submit advertising posters and social media blasts created by students, for students, that encourage students to participate in their school’s Farm to School salad bar program. Thank you to College Heights Secondary School (in...

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Huband Park Elementary’s Salad Bar

June 4, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Huband Park Elementary School, Courtenay BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Huband Park Elementary School in Courtenay BC is a rural school in a beautiful neighbourhood about 10 minutes north of town. Courtenay is a mid size city ½ way up Vancouver Island about 3 hours north of Victoria. Our school has 375 students in 17 divisions...

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Sustainable Salad Bar

June 4, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School

2017-2018 (Year 2) Nobel Public School, Nobel, ON A little about our location… We acknowledge the traditional territories of Henvey Inlet First Nation, Magnetewan First Nation, Wasauksing First Nation, Shawanaga First Nation and Moose Deer Point First Nation that we are working and living upon. These territories are a part of the Robinson Huron Treaty...