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Sep

Reframing Healthy Food in Health Care Webinar

September 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Videos, Webinar

The question of what qualifies as “healthy” food is highly contested in health care and beyond. This conversation is alive and well in our leadership cohort, and we want to engage it publicly. At the Reframing Healthy Food in Heath Care webinar we brought together diverse perspectives from three thought-leaders to explore how hospitals and...

Sep

Planting Campus Gardens

September 10, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Karim Wadood, a senior, pulls weeds with Abby Wallace, a sophomore, at The George Washington University’s GroW Garden. (Photo by Calla Kessler/The Washington Post) University students root themselves in the larger world On Wednesday afternoon, when the city felt trapped inside a soup cauldron, Yvana Petros, 21, crouched alongside H Street NW and dug her...

Jul

Foodshare 2017: A Year in Review

July 31, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field

In 2017, we settled in to our new home. We mulled over a lot of ideas. We made some tough choices. And we continued working to advance “Good Food for All” in neighbourhoods across Toronto. We invite you to see our 2017 impacts in this report. Thank you to everyone who supported us in 2017!...

Jul

Winlaw School Plants for Bees and Borscht

July 23, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Winlaw Elementary School, Winlaw, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Winlaw is a small town in the middle of the Slocan Valley in B.C.’s West Kootenay region. As part of our Farm to School program, we have had our school garden for two years. This fall, we were excited to see what grew over the summer. We...

Jul

Organic Vegetables at CHU Sainte-Justine

July 16, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field

The Sainte-Justine Hospital Centre has taken a big step towards healthier food options for its patients, visitors and staff members. Beginning this summer, Délipapilles, the hospital’s food service, will be using local organic vegetables to prepare its meals. Through a partnership with Équiterre, Délipapilles is working directly with three Quebec organic farms from the Bio Locaux collective,...

Jul

Fellowes Fresh Food Project

July 11, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Fellows High School, Pembroke, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) Fellowes High School, is located in Pembroke, ON in the Ottawa Valley. It is the largest of seven high schools in the school board with a little over 700 students enrolled. Students come from elementary schools within the small city of Pembroke as well as nearby farming...

Jul

Primrose Elementary School & Local Food … A Love Story

July 3, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Primrose Elementary School, Primrose, ON Total student enrollment: 520 2017-2018 (Year 2) The Salad Bar at Primrose ES has made a big impact at the school. Starting with the visual impact, it is served in our main foyer, where people coming in and out of the school see it in progress, enjoy the bright colours...

Horsefly Elementary Junior Secondary Schools, Williams Lake BC

Jul

Adventures in Horsefly

July 3, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Horsefly Elementary School, Horsefly, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) In the middle of the Province of BC, about 45 minutes east of Williams Lake, in prime ranching and forestry country, surrounded by mountains, lakes and wildlife, one will find the thriving metropolis of Horsefly which includes one very friendly, family-based school, Horsefly Elementary/Junior Secondary. Our school,...

Jun

Edward Milne Community School’s Farm to School Programs are Growing!

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Edward Milne Community School, Sooke, BC Grades 9-12 660 Students, including 70 International Students and 118 of Indigenous Ancestry 2017-2018 (Year 2) At Edward Milne Community School, our students are serving up fresh, local veggies from our salad bar four days a week, 30 week of the year – that’s 2,000 salads served! When I...

Royal Bay Secondary School, Victoria, BC

Jun

Royal Bay Secondary – Bringing Curriculum to Life!

June 29, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Royal Bay Secondary School, Victoria, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Royal Bay is a three-year old secondary school in the Sooke School District on Southern Vancouver Island, BC. This is the second year we have been working with the Farm to School Canada grant, which is managed collaboratively between our food studies programs and our culinary...