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Federal Grants Help Schools Put Crunch in Their Lunch

June 27, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Stories from the field

Photo: Students at St. Bon’s in St. John’s got money from the Farm to School program last year and are already enjoying the fruits of their labour. (Food First NL) Funding will teach students about where their food comes from Three Newfoundland and Labrador schools are getting federal money to set up salad bars and composting programs,...

Mar

5 Benefits of School Gardens

March 29, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Tools/Toolkit

School gardens are a great way to get children to learn about nutrition. FAO encourages and supports countries to promote school gardens with educational goals to help students, school staff and families make the connection between growing food and good diets, develop life skills and increase environmental awareness. FAO recognizes that schools are an ideal...

Mar

Canada’s Food Guide: People, Place and Planet in Mind

March 23, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

ON March 21, the CDN government released a report outlining proposed guiding principles and recommendations to inform the development of a new Food Guide, based on data gathered through a pan-Canadian public consultation process. As expected there was strong support for tools to help Canadians increase their intake of water, and fruits and vegetables and...

Mar

Women Who Feed the Islands

March 12, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Lynda Dixon started growing organic, islands-grown produce at Maude Island Farm in 1994. (Jason Shafto/Love Haida Gwaii) Celebrating women’s efforts as foragers, farmers, and pillars of food security on Haida Gwaii How are women working to harvest local foods, feed community, and promote food security on Haida Gwaii – one of the most remote island...

Mar

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...

Dec

New Brunswick Farm to School Guide

December 4, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Publications, Resource Centre: Getting Started, Stories from the field

This beautifully illustrated step by step guide, available in both official languages, was designed specifically to support school communities and the local food supply sector in their efforts to advance Farm to School in New Brunswick. While the guide was developed with NB in mind, it draws upon the latest, most innovative approaches and tools...

Jan

Farm to Caf and Get Fresh Café

January 31, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

The Get Fresh Café is a high school cafeteria model at Westgate CVI that offers fresh and from scratch meals using local and Ontario food, every day. New flavours, combined with seasonal ingredients, all blend together to produce menu options that the entire school is excited about. The Get Fresh Café is where the food culture...