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Jan

Residents of the Bow Valley Gather for Local School Food!

January 10, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Inspired by the farm to school Learning Circle model, in March of 2022, the Let’s Gather! event hosted in Canmore, AB encouraged community members in the Bow Valley to connect and spark dialogue around local and resilient food systems by exploring this theme through the lens of school food. This post shares what inspired the...

Nov

Farm to School Alberta Community Animator Pilot gets underway in Northern Alberta!

November 25, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Photo: Paul Lavoie Two schools in Alberta’s Peace Region are benefiting from a pilot project to establish and grow farm to school in the region in the 2022/23 school year. This project is a collaboration between Alberta Food Matters and Alberta Public Health Association, in partnership with the Public Health Association of BC, the Rural...

Nov

Appetite for farm to school in Alberta grows!

November 25, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Hydroponics

Alberta is a proud agricultural province, with the sector playing an important role in its economy. Farm to school activities provide an opportunity for students in Alberta – and across Canada – to access healthy, local food at school, make connections to the people in their community who grow and produce food, and learn about...

Jun

Food Sovereignty in 3 Grow Projects at Sturgeon Lake School

June 24, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Photo: Grade 4/5 students planting potatoes eyes Sturgeon Lake First Nation School, Valleyview, AB Grant term 2020-2022 Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation School, home of the Eagles, is located in northern Alberta, and is part of the Treaty 8 area. There are 126 students from K4 – Grade 12 and many of them love to hunt,...

Jun

Natural Science Hydroponic Project Story

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

W.P. Wagner School of Science and Technology, Edmonton, AB Grant term 2020-2022 W.P. Wagner High School is in South East Edmonton and has 1500 students. W.P. Wagner High School teaches Grades 10-12. Although we are still not serving food at our school, we have taken some steps to ensure food growth on site for future...

Jun

SMDP MasterChef Competitors kick off School Salad Bar!

June 8, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

St Martin De Porres, Airdrie, AB Grant term 2020-2022 We are so proud to have finally kicked off our Farm 2 Cafeteria (F2C) initiatives this year! St. Martin de Porres is a school in Airdrie, Alberta with roughly 650 students in grades 9-12. A priority for our F2C committee was to create fun ways to...

Apr

Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Authority (KTCEA) serves traditional food in schools

April 22, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

“I am grateful that they [students] have this program and I want other nations to introduce this program into their communities as well.” Clifford Gladue While sitting having a cup of tea and bannock with an Elder in his community, Clifford Gladue learned about an important document, the Alberta First Nations Food Sovereignty declaration. This...

May

LCHS’s EcoVision Case Study: Growing Ecological Leaders

May 27, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Lacombe Composite High School (LCHS) in Alberta has a remarkable EcoVision Club that is inspiring and empowering students to become ecological leaders. The club runs student-led projects that are working to improve the quality of the air, land and water and that demonstrate a really strong model of farm to school in action. All of...

Apr

Farm to School in Alberta

April 16, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, F2CC News, Farm to School, Webinar

Exploring potential to bring locally sourced food to the minds and plates of Alberta’s students! Imagine if Alberta farmers and other local food producers provided the province’s children and youth with healthy, locally sourced food at school. As an agriculturally rich province, there is potential to connect Alberta’s students with their local food system using...

Oct

Grow Your Own Soup

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

CBC Features Calgary’s Edible Schoolyard They grow their soup and eat it too. A CBC crew arrived at Altadore School in Calgary during Farm to School Month to film the city’s first large-scale, Edible Schoolyard. The organic, ecological garden is located on a quarter-acre of public school land and includes raised-bed seed-to-table food gardening for 16...