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Farm to School: Canada Digs In! Video

December 2, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Resource Centre: What is F2S?, Videos

This inspiring video captures the voices and images of several key champions and success stories in the rapidly growing Farm to School movement across Canada. It highlights how Farm to School is getting healthy, local, sustainable food on the minds and on the plates of students. It was filmed in British Columbia, New Brunswick, and...

Local Foods to School: Reconnecting the children of Haida Gwaii to their land and their food.

Dec

Foods From the Islands: Changing the Way We Feed Our Kids

December 1, 2017English, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities, Resource Centre: Inspiring Stories, Stories from the field, Videos

A beautiful 8-minute documentary sharing how the people of Haida Gwaii have come together through a Learning Circle to transform the systems that feed their kids. This video showcases the efforts of the Haida Gwaii Local Foods to School initiatives that are bringing local foods and traditions into schools by connecting students and staff with...

Nov

Alternative Avenues to Local Food in Schools: Ingredients for Success

November 30, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field, Videos

This report, Alternative Avenues to Local Food in Schools: Ingredients for Success, provides the current school food context in 3 regions, Durham, Peel, and Thunder Bay, details 7 pilot projects, and includes 8 “Ingredients for Success” or guidelines for implementing local food projects that resulted from the pilots. As you continue to bring local food...

Nov

Victoria High Students Dig in to Build a Bigger School Garden

November 14, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

Photo: Victoria High School students spread leaf mulch as they expand the school garden on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Photograph By DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST A school garden at Victoria High School has tripled in size, thanks to a group of volunteers who spread a load of leaf mulch Friday to extend the dimensions. Vic High’s garden...

Oct

School Greenhouse Launched in St. John’s!

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

Article by Food First NL, provincial F2CC lead in Newfoundland and Labrador for Farm to School St. Bonaventure’s College in St. John’s, NL was a recipient of the Farm to School Month prize in 2016 for $1500. With those funds, along with matching funds from school donors, students and volunteers recently built the school a...

Oct

Nourish Aims to Change the Narrative of Food in Healthcare

October 16, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field, Videos

Hayley Lapalme I have long wondered if it’s a coincidence that the kitchens in hospitals are often in the basement. Prioritization of food in healthcare is often pit against clinical priorities, rather than seen as complementary. Common refrains I’ve heard from healthcare include, “It’s food or the MRI,” or “If a patient is well enough...

Aug

Pop Up Garden in Collingwood, Ontario

August 11, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

(Taken from Growing Connection Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheGrowingConnection) Folks in Collingwood are catching on to the value of the TGC Pop Up garden, installed in early June…. Health & Taste is at hand, immediately, daily… Please share this video. Perhaps people everywhere will start to realize that the empty lot down the street, a future construction site,...

Feb

Farm to Cafeteria Canada 2016: A Year in Review

February 6, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Farm to Cafeteria Canada has celebrated many successes in 2016! Be inspired and watch our year in review!

Oct

FEED Comox Valley

October 28, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Publications, Stories from the field, Videos

Local Food, Social Procurement and Grow-to-Order Contracts with Publicly Funded Institutions By Sandra Hamilton Project Lead, FEED Comox Valley at North Island College A vision to increase supply of local food in public institutions is behind the Food, Environment and Economic Development (FEED) Comox Valley project, one of eight national initiatives funded by The J.W....

Oct

Transforming the Systems That Feed Our Kids

October 21, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

The drive to get the local harvest in the minds and mouths of students is gearing up during Farm to School Month in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the Northwest Coast of BC. “Haida Gwaii is surrounded by good food and rich traditions of eating from the land and the sea and the fall is when...