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May

Kings County Academy’s Transition from a Contracted Food Service Provider to a PTA-Run Cafeteria

May 30, 2022F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, Home Page Blog Feed

Kings County Academy (KCA) is a pre-primary to grade 8 school located in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with an early French Immersion stream. KCA has a strong partnership with the municipal Parks and Recreation Department and a long history of a vibrant and dedicated Parent Teacher Association (PTA). The school has an enrollment of 630 students...

May

Q’wemtsín Health Society’s Indigenous Food Sovereignty Video Series

May 19, 2022F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities, Videos

Seed to Harvest, Language and Traditional Practices In collaboration with three communities; Skeetchestn Indian Band, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, the Q’wemtsín Health Society (QHS) has created a series of videos to promote growing and sharing food in their communities. Working with students, teachers, Elders, and knowledge keepers, each video teaches skills...

May

Amplifying Youth Voices: A recap of activities in March 2022

May 16, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) works towards realizing vibrant and sustainable food systems by supporting school communities to get more students get more kids growing, cooking, serving and eating local food at school.Through a recent strategic planning process, F2CC identified a need to create a National Youth Engagement Strategy that amplifies the voices of the...

May

Edible Education Community of Practice Webinar: “Walking Forward: Learning from Place”

May 12, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

The final Edible Education Community of Practice meeting of the 2021/2022 school year will be held on Tuesday, May 24 3-4 PST / 6-7 EST! If you are a teacher who wants to integrate First People’s Principles of Learning into your outdoor education, this will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about ready-to-use resources....

May

Grow Food Everywhere: An Intergenerational School Garden Pilot in Comox Valley

May 2, 2022F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, Home Page Blog Feed

This report summarizes the Intergenerational School Garden Pilot Program that took place in BC’s Comox Valley between April 2021 to November 2021. In it, you’ll find practical tips, as well as outlines for student activities. The pilot program outlined in the report demonstrates how 8 participating schools in School District 71, with the help of...

May

New Farm to School Evaluation Tools

May 2, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Evaluation is important. It can help us understand the effects of our work, improve our programs, and share our impacts to gain further support. That’s why we released a Farm to School Evaluation Framework for Canada last year, with the input of over 140 individuals from diverse sectors across the country. The Framework articulates 18...

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...

Apr

Edible Education Community of Practice Webinar: “Decolonizing Your Garden”

April 21, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

On March 2nd, 2022, the Edible Education Community of Practice hosted a conversation to explore ways to incorporate Indigenous plants and ways of knowing into teaching gardens, and heard about examples from two educators. In order to continue the conversation from the November webinar about Land-Based Learning, two guest speakers shared their experiences: Lori Snyder,...

Apr

The Millénaire Story

April 14, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Pavillon au Millénaire, La Baie, Québec 2020-2022 (2ème cohorte boursière) Historique du projet au Millénaire : Le pavillon Au Millénaire est un projet à saveurs particulières et novatrices du Centre de service scolaire des Rives-du-Saguenay qui a ouvert ses portes en août 2017. On y compte 169 élèves et environ 25 membres du personnel provenant de tout le territoire du...

Apr

Aspen Park Elementary runs the salad bar successfully!

April 13, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Aspen Park Elementary, Comox, BC Grant term 2020-2022 By Sarah Picard, Salad Bar Coordinator The Salad Bar has been amazingly successful at our school so far! Today [spring 2021] was our seventh service at Aspen Park Elementary. After several meetings with the school administrators to coordinate how we could run the Salad Bar service safely...