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Salad Bars Bring Local Food to School

June 16, 2020F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Featured Resources

In Quebec, the buzz surrounding local food is growing, not only among citizens and institutions, but also within the provincial government. The province has been promoting healthy, local and sustainable food in public institutions for several years. In 2018, nine Quebec schools received grants of up to $10,000 as part of the Farm to...

Jun

Learning about Food at Home: inspiration & resources in the time of COVID-19

June 10, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Home Page Blog Feed, Tools/Toolkit, Videos, Webinar

Photo by Alyson McPhee on Unsplash While COVID-19 calls for physical distancing, more than ever the world is socially connected, and a hot topic of conversation is food. The pandemic has ramped-up a growing movement in civil society to rediscover and reclaim food systems. Institutions like schools are front and centre because of the essential role they...

Jun

Case Study: The Good Food Challenge at the University of Victoria

June 2, 2020F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to Campus

This case study explores farm to campus activities at the University of Victoria, a participating campus in the Farm to School: Canada Digs In! initiative. Read this case study if you’re interested in understanding how Meal Exchange’s Good Food Challenge can be applied to not only increase the amount of healthy, just and sustainably produced food on campuses but how doing...

Going Local: Food Procurement on Campus, Farm to Healthcare

Jun

Going Local Consultant Report: Farm-to-Campus Relationships at Canadian Universities

June 2, 2020F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to Campus

The popularity of local food and sustainable agricultural practices has grown since the early 2000s. But despite the growing demand for fresh, local and sustainable food, the reality is that most of our food still comes from industrial processes and from other countries. On-campus initiatives like Meal Exchange’s Good Food Challenge are trying to create...

Jun

Chef Joshna Maharaj believes institutional food could be tasty and nourishing

June 2, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Photo: Joshna Maharaj’s book Take Back the Tray: Revolutionising Food in Hospitals, Schools and Institutions is a call-to-arms for chefs and administrators alike. (@joshnamaharaj/Twitter.com, ECW Press) Why hospital food is so bad and how we can make it better May 29, 2020 www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition Is there anything more unappetizing than hospital food? The very mention of it...

Apr

Farm-to-School Grant Funding Increases Children’s Access to Local Fruits and Vegetables in Oregon

April 17, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Evaluation, Farm to School, Publications

This report measures the reach of Oregon’s legislated farm-to-school grant program among school districts and children, particularly low income, and examines changes in local purchasineg, particularly fruit and vegetables, and the use of produce from school gardens in school meals. Read the full article Authors: Kristen C. Giombi, RTI International Anupama Joshi, National Farm to...

Mar

Developing a Farm to School Strategy to Grow Robust Farm to School Program

March 6, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Maurita Prato, Executive Director of Lush Valley and co-facilitator for the first Farm to School Learning Circle guides participants through activities to stimulate conversation on goals and a vision. COMOX, VALLEY B.C. – Enhance and transform the current systems that influences how students eat and learn about food was the focus of the first Comox...

Feb

Forest Park’s Salad Bar Story

February 27, 2020F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Forest Park Elementary School, St. Thomas, ON Total Student Enrollment: 400+ 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) In 2018, Forest Park Elementary School partnered with Farm to Cafeteria Canada to provide a healthy and free salad bar weekly to all students. In an increasingly diverse socio-economic society, many students come to school without a healthy lunch. At...

Feb

Liberals Set Table for School-food Program, Warned to Avoid Top-down Approach

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Students at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss., eat lunch in the school’s cafeteria on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. The federal Liberals are being told to avoid creating a one-size-fits-all national school-food program.Rogelio V. Solis / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Joanne Bays, Farm to Cafeteria’s National Director, hit the ground running in with her first interview...

Farm to Campus, Farm to School Farm to School Canada

Feb

What is it like to eat at Canada’s Largest University?

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Reilley Plue The University of Toronto (UofT) is Canada’s largest university, with over 90,000 students across three campuses (Mississauga, St. George, and Scarborough). This means a lot of mouths to feed! The largest of the three campuses, St. George, caters to over 61,000 full-time students and is located downtown where there is no shortage...