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Webinar Recap: The Recipe to Local Sourcing in Schools

March 5, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Videos, Webinar

Photo credit: Équiterre Équiterre, the provincial coordinator of the Farm to School program in Quebec, mobilizes school communities to adopt best practices that promote sustainable (healthy, local and eco-responsible) food and to set targets for purchasing Quebec food. During their February 24, 2021 webinar, Équiterre’s three facilitators presented different strategies for starting and sustaining local...

Mar

A Salad Bar Success Case Study: St. Dominic & St. Luke in Oakville, Ontario

March 1, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

St. Dominic Catholic Elementary School and St. Luke Catholic Elementary School, two of our Farm to School Canada Grant recipients located in Oakville, Ontario, have found great success in delivering their salad bar lunch programs through a business model launched by two parents, Stacey Bean and Jill O’Reilley. To share how they’ve been able to...

Mar

Make some noise for Healthy School Food with the 2021 Great Big Crunch

March 1, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Mar

Farm to School Helps Students Find their Healthy!

March 1, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

March is Nutrition Month and this year’s theme is “Good for you!” This simple concept centres on the idea that healthy eating looks different for everyone. Farm to Cafeteria Canada’s new Nutrition Month video shares how schools are developing farm to school programs in innovative and creative ways that are rooted in their own community...

Feb

Launching a Canada-wide Edible Education Community of Practice

February 25, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Sunday Harrison / Green Thumbs Growing Kids Farm to Cafeteria Canada and the Coalition for Healthy School Food, alongside our shared regional partners, are excited to announce the launch of a national Edible Education Community of Practice (CoP)! We will be hosting an inaugural meeting of this newly established CoP on Wednesday, March 10...

Feb

New UN FAO report: Public Food Procurement for Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets

February 17, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s recent report Public Food Procurement for Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets makes a strong case for how institutional food procurement, with a strong emphasis on school food programs, has great potential to transform food systems to be more sustainable. On page 2, the report states “Over the past...

Feb

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021

February 8, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2021 the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV). IYFV 2021 is aimed at raising awareness about the important role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition, food security and health — with an appeal to improve healthy and sustainable food production through innovation and technology and to reduce food...

Feb

Sharing our Farm to School Impact Videos

February 2, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

You’ve seen in our 2020 Canada Digs In! Report that farm to school programs support public health, community economic development, education & learning, and community connections. Now hear about these impacts firsthand in our Impact Videos! In these 11 videos, 7 in English and 4 in French, we hear from our farm to school grantees...

Jan

Earth to Tables: a multimedia tool for educators

January 31, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Since 2015, a group of food activists have come together to develop and launch the Earth to Tables Legacies project, a multimedia educational package focused on food justice and food sovereignty. The website offers a plethora of resources including compelling videos and facilitator’s guides supplemented by insightful commentary from activists & academics across Turtle Island...

Jan

When food and education go hand in hand!

January 26, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Home Page Blog Feed

Are you convinced that healthy eating among kids starts with education? We are! That’s why Équiterre has been developing a digital platform dedicated to food education for young people aged 0 to 17. Developed jointly with the healthy eating working group during the Table québécoise sur la saine alimentation (Quebec roundtable on healthy eating), this...