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Jun

Farm to School: Stories From the Field in Greater Vancouver

June 18, 2013English, Publications

[gdl_gallery title=”GALLERY_TITLE” width=”IMAGE_SRC” height=”IMAGE_HEIGHT” ] Hot off the press – a brand new booklet providing an overview of Greater Vancouver’s first six Farm to School programs. Learn about the people, their schools, and their successes and challenges implementing Farm to School programs. Thanks to the collective efforts of the school communities, farmers, and partners from...

May

Farm to School Gets Growing in Powell River

May 23, 2013English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Farm To School is a well-established health promotion program that has been sprouting up all over Canada for some years now. Farm to School programs aim to connect schools and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals, improving student nutrition, providing educational opportunities and supporting local small scale farmers. In the last five years, the Public Health Association of BC has...

Feb

UBC’s New Sustainable Campus Food Guide!

February 11, 2013F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Campus, Publications

The UBC Campus Sustainable Food Guide is a great resource package detailing the initiatives that are happening at UBC and weighing in about food education, engagement and much more. Check it out the UBC Sustainable Campus Food Guide here!

Oct

SickKids to Offer More Ontario Food at Hospital

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Source: Newswire.ca- October 18, 2012 TORONTO, Oct. 18, 2012 /CNW/ – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) takes great pride in fostering the care and health of children. Providing healthy, nourishing food is vital to good health and the healing process. The Greenbelt Fund is funding a project to assist SickKids in bringing more Ontario food to...

Oct

Furtive Steps to Better Hospital Dining

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Source: The Tyee- October 19, 2012 Local fish, pulled from the cold water off the north coast, is a staple on the menu at the eight-bed hospital in Masset, a town of roughly 1,000 located on the largest island of Haida Gwaii. Patient meals also regularly feature local potatoes and onions from nearby farmers; part of...

Oct

Why Can’t We Know What’s in Grandma’s Hospital Meal?

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Source: The Tyee- October 18, 2012 Following on the example of St. Joseph’s hospital in Guelph, a nationally-recognized model of bringing local food into big institutions, we wanted to find out how patients’ meals measure up in Vancouver. Indeed, could we do a plate-by-plate comparison of hospital meals: their ingredients, how far they’d travelled, what our health...

Oct

Can Hospital Food Be Fixed?

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Source: The Tyee- October 17th, 2012 Guelph, Ont. — “Hospital food” is one of those phrases that evokes an almost visceral reaction from anyone who has had the displeasure of experiencing it first-hand. Bad hospital food stories are nothing new, but in the past few years there has been a renewed call to improve the...

Oct

Farm to Campus: UBC DIgs in

October 17, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

Steve Golob has been a chef at Vanier Hall at the University of British Columbia for 15 years and is passionate about local, fresh, healthy food. Vanier Hall serves over 2500 students per day, plus staff and faculty. When a student spends, on average, $5.90 for one of Steve’s meals, they’re in for a treat!...