Stories from the field Archives - Page 6 of 44

Six years of Farm to School & still going strong!

July 9, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Cambridge-Narrows Community School (C-NCS) Cambridge-Narrows, NB 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) The small Village of Cambridge-Narrows is located in South-Central New Brunswick and their community school is home to a thriving Farm to School initiative which benefits students from kindergarten to grade 12. Originally part of F2CC’s Nourishing School Communities initiative, this school is still going...

Bruce Peninsula District School Lion’s Head, ON

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Farm to School grows community in Bruce County!

July 8, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Bruce Peninsula District School Lion’s Head, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Bruce Peninsula District School is a JK – 12 school that already had a daily Cafeteria Program, school wide composting program and a school and community garden. When the opportunity to apply for the Farm 2 Cafeteria Salad Bar grant came to our attention...

Clarenville Middle School, Clarenville NL

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Salad Bar launch is a hit with middle-school students on the east coast of Newfoundland

July 8, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Jeremy Eaton · CBC News Apr 28, 2023 Gotta get me moose, b’y: N.L. middle school serves up moose burgers School Lunch Association believes moose on the menu to be a 1st Students at Clarenville Middle School were treated to a feed of moose as part of the School Lunch Association’s vision of seeing more local food...

Jul

Mark R Isfeld Salad Bar Program Launch

July 5, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Mark R. Isfeld Secondary, Comox Valley, BC 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Students at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary in the Comox Valley were in for a refreshing change to their regular lunch hour. The school’s salad bar program officially launched Thursday, 21 February, 2019. Watch their video report:

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Experiencing salad bar through the lens of a parent volunteer

July 4, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Tahayghen Elementary, Masset BC 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Tahayghen Elementary School is one of 5 in on Haida Gwaii that have embraced Local Food to School through Salad Bars. Thank you to School Principal, Verena Gibbs, for sharing this story from a parent volunteer: I remember walking into the PAC meeting — so much PAC...

Jun

Reflections about Canada’s first National Farm to School Conference

June 25, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Conference, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Stories from the field

An interview with Joanne Bays, National Director, Farm to Cafeteria Canada In May, nearly 300 leaders from across North America gathered in Victoria BC to take part in Canada’s first National Farm to School Conference – an event designed to illuminate and inspire activity to get more local healthy foods in the minds and on the plates of students....

May

Celebrating the Harvest with the Farm to School Young Chef Competition

May 17, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Conference, Farm to School, Stories from the field

What is the Young Chef Competition? During the Farm to School National Conference celebrated in Victoria BC (May 15th– 17th), the Young Chef Competition aimed to showcase some of the healthy, delicious dishes that students cook up on a day to day basis at schools across the province. Applications were solicited for student-created recipes from...

May

Media Release: Government, Grocers, and Grassroots Invest in Canada’s Farm to School Program

May 16, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Funding, Home Page Blog Feed, Stories from the field

VANCOUVER, BC, May 16, 2019 Farm to Cafeteria Canada announces new partners and new investments to scale-up the largest federally supported multi-sector national school food program in Canada. By 2020, more than $5.0 M will be invested by the public and the private sector to advance Farm to School: Canada Digs in (F2SCDI) – an...

May

Food Matters Action Kit

May 2, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Join the Youth Movement to Prevent Food Waste, Protect Our Environment and Help Save the Planet Montreal, 11 April 2019—Youth can make a positive difference to prevent food waste, from small initiatives at home to more ambitious efforts that involve the whole community, by using the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) new Food Matters Action...

May

Farm to School Learning Circles

May 1, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Publications, Stories from the field

This guide provides an introduction to the use of Learning Circles as a means of furthering Farm to School (F2S) efforts across Canada. It is primarily intended for use by local and regional F2S Coordinators to support their work to increase the availability of healthy, local, and sustainable food to children and youth. However, anyone...