Stories from the field Archives - Page 7 of 44

Earth Day Salad Bar at Huband Elementary

April 29, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

“I am so pleased to say that our “Earth Day” whole school salad bar was a HUGE success.” – Shannon Simpson CNP, BHK, TRP, CPT, Whole Health Family Wellness

Apr

2019 Michelle Lessard Award

April 16, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Congratulations to the 2019 Winner of the Michelle Lessard Award: Nanâtohk Mîciwin (Universal School Food Strategy) What is the Michelle Lessard award? Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) will present the Michelle Lessard Award to a program or group of individuals representing a regional organization, a school, or a set of schools that have created a stellar Farm to School program,...

Mar

Budget 2019: Canada Gets a National Food Policy

March 20, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Funding, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Policy, Stories from the field

Canada’s long-awaited national food policy is getting $134.4 million over five years, on a cash basis, starting next year, the Trudeau government says. The policy, outlined in Budget 2019, will focus on tackling food waste, improving community access to healthy food, shining a spotlight on Canadian food both at home and abroad, and increasing food...

Mar

Students Celebrate Agriculture Literacy Month with Farm to Fork Event

March 8, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Two Sun West Distance Learning Centre students looking at chickpeas as they tour the University of Saskatchewan’s Agriculture Greenhouses, to learn about how breeders take plants from the wild and turn them into something consumers can eat. (Photo courtesy: Lori Gasper) High school students enrolled with the Sun West Distance Learning Centre are taking a...

Feb

Loughborough Public School Garden and Salad Bar Program

February 27, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Loughborough Public School, Sydenham, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) We make the call on the announcements for each of the three divisions and listen for the thunder of feet to rush down to our foyer where the locally provided food awaits. Prepared just across the road by culinary students from our neighbouring high school, this food is...

Feb

Valley Secondary School Salad Bar Launches at Isfeld

February 27, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Students at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary lined up for their inaugural salad bar lunch Thursday morning at the school. Photo by Erin Haluschak Although there isn’t a formal cafeteria in the school, students at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary made a makeshift one in the lobby for the school’s inaugural Salad Bar Program. Thursday morning,...

Feb

Northern Fruit and Vegetable Program Launched at Local Schools

February 12, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Iverson Beaver (right), 8, a student at Algonquin Avenue Public School, helps make a smootie surprise using squash as the secret ingredient, part of the Northern Fruit and Vegetable Program launched on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com) Nearly 16,000 elementary students at 87 Northwestern Ontario schools expected to take part in the program,...

Jan

Why Farm-to-Institution Sourcing is the Sleeping Giant of Local Food

January 25, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Farms, Stories from the field

Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door. The next time someone points to the need for more farmers’ markets as a way to help move local food from a trend to a substantive cultural shift,...

Jan

Denver’s New Sales Tax is the First in the Nation to Benefit Kids’ Health

January 3, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Policy, Stories from the field

The unprecedented new measure establishes a minimal sales tax to support healthy food access and food education programs for Denver youth over the next 10 years. The biggest takeaway from the recent election night in Colorado was the state’s historic blue wave, with Democratic candidates winning every statewide office and taking control of the state Senate. But...

Dec

She’s Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

December 10, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Baby Magnus gets a taste of siák̓vṇaɫ courtesy of his grandfather Larry and his mother Jessie Housty. Photo by Ian Gill. How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community. “I want to stress that we have no idea what we are doing.” So says ’Cúagilákv Jessie Housty, a self-described “community...