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Backpacks of Local Food

March 8, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

Schools in the Headwaters Region are signing up for backpacks of Local Food—if you’re in the area, you can too! “I championed bringing Local Food Club to my children’s school because I want to support sustainable local food and farming,” Lisa Mychajluk tells us, “and create as many opportunities as possible to talk about food issues...

Feb

News Release: A Fresh Crunch in School Lunch

February 15, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Funding, In the News, Stories from the field

News Release For Immediate Release New funds and tools for New Brunswick schools to get more of the local harvest in the minds and on the plates of students. February 14, 2018 Fredericton NB – Farm to Cafeteria Canada and our partners – the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Fisheries, the Public Health...

Feb

Horticultural Society’s support the latest boost to Vic High garden

February 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Victoria Horticultural Society president Margaret Hantiuk (from left), joins gardening enthusiasts and Vic High students Kiara Chesson and Eden Murray in the school’s vegetable and herb garden next to the greenhouse. The society helped out the school’s gardening efforts recently with a $500 donation. Photo contributed Gardening project as much about education as it is...

Feb

Schools Learn the Benefits and Joys of Gardening in Manitoba’s North

February 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Photo Credits: HBOIERC Photography Students HELEN BETTY OSBORNE ININIW EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE Norway House, Manitoba We first started gardening in our school during the 2016-17 school year. We purchased 60 Rubbermaid containers and placed them in an open area at the center of our school. Each class was assigned a bin and were responsible, during the...

Feb

Bonjour from Ecole Franco Nord!

February 12, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

École Franco-Nord, Prince George, BC The name of our school is a reference to our geographical location in British Columbia. Located in the boreal forest, Prince George is also known as the ‘Spruce Capital’ of the north. Prince George can now boast that it has its first Farm to School participant, our francophone school: École...

Feb

From Field Trips to Salad Bar Equipped

February 12, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Colquitz Middle School, Victoria BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) We had been waiting for 5 years to get a school learning garden and the F2CC grant clinched the deal with a ground breaking in June 2017. In those past 5 years we have offered F2S lunches, with 83 lunch served in that span of time! It...

Feb

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...

Crawford Bay Elementary School, Crawford Bay, BC

Feb

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...