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Bearing Fruit: Farm to School Program Evaluation

November 3, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Evaluation, Farm to School

Farm to school programs, which link local farmers with schools, have increased in number, from fewer than ten in 1997 to more than an estimated 2,000 programs in 2008. With this phenomenal increase, many in the farm to school movement are faced with the question: what are the speciﬁc impacts of the program? Click here for...

Oct

Halifax students garden, cook for World Food Day

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to School, In the News

Source: CBC News-October 16, 2012 Hundreds of students at Saint Catherine’s School in Halifax are enjoying a free lunch made by their schoolmates in honour of World Food Day. Earlier this week, Grade 5 students at the school on Connolly Street picked the remaining food from the school garden and made a potato soup with...

Oct

What are 300 tilapia doing in a Toronto high school?

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to School, In the News

Source: The Globe and Mail- October 19, 2012 Every morning when he arrives at school, Cody Sponagle, a whippet-thin 17-year-old, feeds the fish in Classroom S1 in Bendale Business and Technical Institute, in central Scarborough. But this is no ordinary student chore. Mr. Sponagle and a handful of his classmates in Bendale’s “green industries” program...

Oct

New network linking farms with cafeterias launched today with student food forum in Calgary

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, In the News

Source: Calgary Herald- October 16, 2o12 A new national network aimed at connecting farms to cafeterias — improving food in these institutions and, subsequently, those who use them — launched today as students here in Calgary learned more about the importance of local food. Farm to Cafeteria Canada is a national program, managed and administered by...

Sep

It Takes An Island: Growing Local in Haida Gwaii

September 11, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field

A remote group of islands just south of the Alaskan panhandle and 100 km off the northern coast of British Columbia seems an unlikely location for Farm to Cafeteria – yet an amazing cluster of programs flourish there. Farm to School, and Farm to Hospital programs seeded in the fall of 2010 are taking root...

Aug

Green Court Project

August 22, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Saint-Barthélemy school launched the Green Court Project, which aimed at beautifying and greening their schoolyard. This resulted in the creation of a large organic vegetable garden andseveral plots with flowers and herbs. The project was initiated by a teacher and the Court Green Committee (with parents) with undergraduate students helping to sow, garden and harvest. The project was launched with the House district network of gardens but now it is an independent project. See the project in video! Claude Martel, teacher, martelcl@csdm.qc.ca...

Aug

Farm to Cafeteria to Entrepreneur!

August 8, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

I went to the Farm to Cafeteria conference in Richmond, BC, with a kernel of an idea–a seed, really, if you can pardon the really bad pun. My idea was to launch a catering company, Piknik, with a very speciﬁc niche: providing a fun, healthy, and inclusive hot lunch day option for kids. About a...