College Heights Secondary School, Guelph ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) This year’s theme for the College Heights Secondary School Salad Bar program has been “Connections!” In Guelph, Ontario we live in a City with a rich agricultural background. As a small vocational school with 400 students we have been able to connect to all corners of...Read More
Algoma Public Health is excited to support St. Mary’s French Immersion as they explore, grow, cook, taste and have fun with good food. To kick start the initiative, local Certified Organic Farmer, Fannie McFadden from McFadden’s Acres, spoke to the entire student body about where food comes from and what it’s like to be a...Read More
What’s green and healthy and made on two wheels? A blender bike smoothie, of course. They are the latest sensation at Yarrow elementary, and are whipped up every Tuesday morning by the students, for the students. At about 9 a.m., one chosen class makes their way to the school’s lobby, where all of the ingredients...Read More
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority dietitians and public health nurses are helping students get interested in growing and enjoying healthy food. They are members of the Farm to School Vancouver Area Regional Hub (F2SVA) that oversee Farm to School activities in the Vancouver area. A Vancity credit union grant provided the funds to hire a local...Read More
Salad bars in schools. An oxymoron? Not in the US where the 4000th school salad bar was granted earlier this year. As part of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, over $10 million in salad bar equipment and training has been provided to US schools. Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) is championing the same model in...Read More
Some parents may struggle to get kids to eat their greens, but at St. Bonaventure’s College in St. John’s students are excited about a new salad bar featuring local seasonal vegetables. Students lobbied for a wider variety of healthy options in the school’s cafeteria and applied for the Farm to Cafeteria Canada program — which they got....Read More
Thirteen year-old Sarah Lewis never liked the chicken burgers and pizza at her school’s cafeteria. Although they were cheap, they were far from nutritious and anything but local. One day, when the healthiest thing she could find was a preservative-packed Caesar salad, she realized something needed to change. “Everything I saw was unhealthy. I didn’t...Read More
It’s lunchtime in a Toronto high school and chef Jesus Gomez awaits with vegetables aplenty. On today’s menu at the Good Food Café: baked chicken drumsticks, vegetable beef tacos, green bean-red pepper salad, squash-beet salad, broccoli-carrot-cabbage slaw, baked potato wedges, vegetable pizza, green salad and fruit cups. It’s a good-looking spread. There’s choice, but not...Read More
A week after releasing an in-depth analysis of school cafeteria menus from around the province, New Brunswick’s doctors and dietitians are recognizing schools serving exceptional food with a “Where to Eat” guide. The guide is the final component of this year’s Make Menus Matter project, undertaken jointly by the New Brunswick Medical Society and NB...Read More
Photo: Laura Berman, Greenfuse Photography Good healthy food for all – this is the mandate in which FoodShare bases all of their work. Working with communities and schools since 1985 to deliver healthy food and food education, FoodShare has a number of projects and initiatives that work to increase access to affordable high-quality fresh food....Read More
