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Oct

Hospital Food Goes Fresh and Local

October 30, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News, Stories from the field

In case you haven’t noticed, the food in Toronto is getting better every year, and that includes hospital food. Toronto has some of the best restaurants of all stripes and for every budget, many of them full at any time of the day, a sure sign of a city falling in love with its food...

Oct

12 College Campuses Leading the Way for Sustainable Dining

October 13, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Many cafeterias around the United States are working to provide students with healthy, sustainable meal options. To do this, colleges and universities are changing the way that they purchase and prepare food in their cafeterias, and many of them are beginning to source food locally. Universities can play a big role in their local and...

Sep

Trent University Opens Trent Market Garden to Fulfil Sustainable Agriculture Commitment to Dine on Own Produce at Campus

September 29, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Mehdi Sharifi leads a tour of Trent University Market Garden on Friday September 11, 2015 on Douro Ninth Line in Peterborough, Ont. This fall, students, staff and faculty can enjoy fresh, organic produce across campus at a variety of food service locations, thanks to an innovative partnership between the new student-run agricultural enterprise, the Trent...

Apr

Community Orchard Blossoming on College Campus

April 29, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Niagara College sustainability engagement assistant Gina Pannunzio looks over one of many trees to be included in the school’s edible orchard. A groundbreaking for the orchard was held as part of the school’s Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Welland, Ont. Maryanne Firth/Welland Tribune/Postmedia Network Niagara College has launched a new initiative...

Apr

Ontario Students Leading Campus Food System Change

April 1, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Publications, Stories from the field

The Meal Exchange believes that post-secondary campuses are an ideal leverage point for building local food systems, and that student leaders have the power to drive this change. Their new report Student leadership for local food on Ontario’s campuses 2013 – 2105 features stories from Meal Exchange’s work over the past 18 months with the University of Waterloo,...

Mar

The Campus Food Revolution

March 18, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

When students and administrators join resources to improve the food on campus, cafeteria is no longer a dirty word. It’s steak week at the Creelman Marketplace, a food-court style of cafeteria at the University of Guelph. The chef at the grill station is sizzling up steak fajitas to order for a long lineup. The featured...

Nov

The (Campus) Garden Guide

November 3, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Publications, Stories from the field, Tools/Toolkit

This comprehensive booklet from our colleagues at the Real Food Challenge in the US provides a practical step by step guide to plan and implement an a campus food garden. Author Louisa Denison, a student at Harvard University designed this resource with students in mind. Whether you are at the design stage or at the...

Nov

On Campus Food Systems: Production, Distribution and Best Practices

November 3, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Publications, Stories from the field

Canadian Campus food systems are changing and students are playing a big role. Increasingly the food found on student plates is fresh and local – produced in nearby gardens, farms, and waters. Food system change activity on 5 Canadian campuses as well as the benefits and barriers of this activity is illuminated in this report....

Oct

Ryerson University Goes Locavore

October 16, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

When Joshna Maharaj took charge of the food at Ryerson University last year there was a lot of negativity to overcome. Terms like “crappy” and “expensive” described the experience of eating on campus. Students and faculty, outraged by multimillion-dollar losses incurred by the multinational corporation that had been the campus food provider for two decades,...

Jul

At the University of Winnipeg, Food Service With a Social Conscious

July 3, 2014English, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

Photo above: Diversity Food Services chef Ben Kramer, “I’d rather buy raw food and pay people to process it.” Ben Kramer never thought he would end up working in a cafeteria kitchen. The chef started his career at Vancouver restaurants that catered to a clientele willing to pay top dollar for fresh and local food....