F2S Grants Archives - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

Eating, Growing and Thriving in the Shuswap!

February 27, 2024F2CC adminCanada Digs In, F2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Carlin Elementary Middle School, North-Okanagan Shuswap, BC Grant term 2022-2024 In 2021 Carlin Elementary Middle School in the North-Okanagan Shuswap became the lucky recipients of the Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) grant. From this exciting news we embarked on a collective journey that led us back to our own backyard – so to speak. Carlin...

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Musquodoboit Rural High School – Thoughtful Food Project

June 17, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Musquodoboit Rural High School – Middle Musquodoboit, NS Grant term 2020-2022 This story begins in 2017. The Healthy School Community Committee (HSCC) is a collective of several community service organizations who work collaboratively to augment learning opportunities in the Musquodoboit Rural High School (MRHS). In 2017, the HSCC surveyed local youth to find out what...

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Waskanipaniw: Arriving full circle

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous School Story

Grand Rapids School, Grand Rapids, MB Grant term 2020-2022 At the end of the hallway in Grand Rapids School a sliver of bright light escapes through a gap at the bottom of a closed door. A beacon for curious minds, this particular room stands out from the rest of the closed doors along the hallway....

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Port Burwell – a Small School that Dreams Big

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Port Burwell Public School, Port Burwell, ON Grant term 2020-2022 Port Burwell PS is a K-6 school of 130 students is a rural port village on the shore line of Lake Erie in Southwest Ontario. In our final grant year, we are getting closer every day to enjoying our salad bar service goals! Geographic isolation...

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Kelliher School Community Garden

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Kelliher School, Kelliher, SK Grant term 2020-2022

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Natural Science Hydroponic Project Story

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

W.P. Wagner School of Science and Technology, Edmonton, AB Grant term 2020-2022 W.P. Wagner High School is in South East Edmonton and has 1500 students. W.P. Wagner High School teaches Grades 10-12. Although we are still not serving food at our school, we have taken some steps to ensure food growth on site for future...

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SMDP MasterChef Competitors kick off School Salad Bar!

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

St Martin De Porres, Airdrie, AB Grant term 2020-2022 We are so proud to have finally kicked off our Farm 2 Cafeteria (F2C) initiatives this year! St. Martin de Porres is a school in Airdrie, Alberta with roughly 650 students in grades 9-12. A priority for our F2C committee was to create fun ways to...

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Harbour View High school – Climate Action A Way of Life

June 7, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Georgia (Grade 10), Aidan (Grade 11), Joanna (Grade 10), Olivia (Grade 10), Paige (Grade 11), Ben (Grade 11), Ruhamma (Grade 12) Harbour View High School, Saint John, NB Grant term 2020-2022 In September 2018, a group of twenty-three students formed a Climate Action Group within our school. Their vision was ambitious and wide-ranging. They...

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H.C. Avery Middle School – The joy of growing our own food

June 7, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

H.C. Avery Middle School, Winnipeg, MB Grant term 2020-2022 “I didn’t know growing your own food was this fun and easy to do!” This was one of the messages heard from students who participated in building, preparing, growing, and eating hydroponic-grown lettuce through the Farm-to-School grant at H.C. Avery Middle School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. H.C....

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Growing Together…Caring, Capable Citizens in a Changing World!

June 7, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Kidston Elementary, Coldstream, BC Grant term 2020-2022 We are currently meeting the educational needs of approximately 420 students enrolled from Kindergarten through Grade 7. We are located in a pristine area of Coldstream in the beautiful Okanagan. The location of our school affords us connections to Mackie House, Sovereign Park, Bishop’s Bird Sanctuary, Kal Park...