In 2016, the Government of New Brunswick launched its Local Food and Beverage Strategy, Buy/Achetez NB. Among the strategy’s objectives was improved availability of local food and beverages. Including more local products in schools was identified as an opportunity to that end. As a result, one of the key actions identified within the strategy was...Read More
Photo: Picking the last of the harvest and cleaning up the greenhouse and outside bed on Wednesday Oct. 4. Photo submitted The W.L. McLeod Farm to School harvesting has finished for the 2017 growing season. Over the past three weeks, roughly 70 students from Kindergarten to Grade 4 have been picking, pulling and digging fresh vegetables...Read More
Photo: MP Julie Dabrusin, Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, CPHO Dr. Theresa Tam, Kim Herrington from Whole Kids Foundation, and Joanne Bays from F2CC planting a tree at Norman Johnston Alternate School to celebrate Just Dig In. 2017-2018 (Year 2) Norman Johnston Alternate School, Glouchester, ON Total Student Enrollment: 253 Norman Johnston (NJ) is an alternate high...Read More
Photo: Norman Johnston Alternate Program student Maddie Richards (right) gave an Oct. 3 tour to federal Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor (second from right) and Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam (second from left). Also pictured is one of the teachers who works with the food program at the school. – Brier...Read More
Canada’s Minister of Health Digs in to Launch Farm to School Month Canada and a New panCanadian Farm to School Initiative Norman Johnston Alternative School, Glouchester, Ontario. Subjects in Photo (left to right): Julie Dabrosin, MP Toronto-Danforth, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Canada’s Minister of Heaith, Dr Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Kim Herrington, Program Director, Whole Kids...Read More
Inspiring a new generation to bring the local harvest into school cafeterias. News Release For Immediate Release October 2, 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Farm to Cafeteria Canada October is Farm to School Month in Canada. Today and throughout the month of October Canadian farmers, parents, chefs, students, and teachers will...Read More
By Carolyn Webb, Sustain Ontario The recorded webinar and presentation slides from our Cooking Up Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools are now available! This webinar was the third in our Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools webinar series. Recorded on March 22, 2017, this webinar focused on how to teach local food literacy while engaging students in preparing...Read More
By Carolyn Webb, Sustain Ontario The recorded webinar and presentation slides from our Eating for Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools are now available! This webinar was the second in our Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools webinar series. Recorded on February 22, 2017, this webinar focused on how to use school meals (including cafeteria lunches, hot meal days,...Read More
By Carolyn Webb, Sustain Ontario Did you miss our Teaching Local Food Literacy webinar? It’s not too late! The recorded webinar and presentation slides are now available for you to view. This webinar was the first in our Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools webinar series. Recorded on November 30, 2016, this webinar provides tangible lessons for...Read More
Princess Margaret Secondary School, Penticton, BC The Farm to School grant offered by Farm to cafeteria Canada and the Whole Kids Foundation was just what we needed to kick start a salad bar program at our high school in Penticton, BC. My name is Tristan Mennell and I have the good fortune of running the...Read More
