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Jan

Farm to School BC Conference

January 26, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Farm to School BC is excited to announce the launch of their 2023 conference website and call for proposals! The 2023 conference, Planting the Seed: Harvesting connections, ideas, and community, will be happening May 17th-19th at the UBC Nest in Vancouver. The conference aims to celebrate the impact of both budding and established school food initiatives and...

Nov

Farm to School Alberta Community Animator Pilot gets underway in Northern Alberta!

November 25, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Photo: Paul Lavoie Two schools in Alberta’s Peace Region are benefiting from a pilot project to establish and grow farm to school in the region in the 2022/23 school year. This project is a collaboration between Alberta Food Matters and Alberta Public Health Association, in partnership with the Public Health Association of BC, the Rural...

Nov

Appetite for farm to school in Alberta grows!

November 25, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Alberta is a proud agricultural province, with the sector playing an important role in its economy. Farm to school activities provide an opportunity for students in Alberta – and across Canada – to access healthy, local food at school, make connections to the people in their community who grow and produce food, and learn about...

Aug

Welcome to our 2022 Farm to School Canada Grant Recipients!

August 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Jul

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

July 11, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

On May 24, 2022, the Edible Education Community of Practice hosted the last meeting of the 2021/2022 school year on the theme of land-based learning. In November, we recorded a conversation with three educators, and heard about their land-based learning practices. In March, we heard from two educators about how to incorporate Indigenous plants into...

Jun

Food Sovereignty in 3 Grow Projects at Sturgeon Lake School

June 24, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Photo: Grade 4/5 students planting potatoes eyes Sturgeon Lake First Nation School, Valleyview, AB Grant term 2020-2022 Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation School, home of the Eagles, is located in northern Alberta, and is part of the Treaty 8 area. There are 126 students from K4 – Grade 12 and many of them love to hunt,...

Jun

A New Food Literacy Development Framework for Children & Youth

June 9, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Curriculum

Dr. Joyce Slater from the University of Manitoba has launched a new Food Literacy Progression for Children and Youth, providing an organizational framework for food literacy development from ages 2-18 years. The Food Literacy Progression is a tool that can be used to develop food education programs that build knowledge, attitudes and skills progressively, in schools...

May

Kweselkten Agriculture Guide

May 17, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

The Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Interior First Nations (CFDC of CIFN) developed this Kweselkten Agricultural guide. This guide provides information about agriculture techniques and activities through conversation with local producers living and growing food within the Secwépemc territory, including Tk’emlups, Simpcw, and Skeetchestn, and well as on Nlaka’pamux territory. In this guide, you...

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...

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# **New website design and menu!**If you haven't visited our website in a while, you'll notice that we have undergone an exciting new redesign, aimed to make it easier to find what you're looking for!Our new menu focuses on **How We Work** and the **Support We Offer**:* Schools* Community Partners* Local Food Providers * Funders & Design-makers* Indigenous Programs You'll also find all **Our** **Initiatives** in one spot, as well as our **Resource Centre** and **Inspiring Grant Stories**. **More info is coming later in the year regarding our next grant run **but in the meantime check out other opportunities via links in our **Providing Funds** section! Wander on over, look through the new site and let us know what you think! www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca#farm2school #localfood #schoolfood #websiteredesign ... See MoreSee Less

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Did you participate in the Great Big Crunch?#LaGrandeCroquée| Aujourd'hui, participez à cette initiative pancanadienne de la Coallition pour la saine alimentation scolaire qui célèbre l'approvisionnement local et écoresponsable dans nos institutions publiques! Bonne croquée! 🍎🍎🍎 ➡️ bit.ly/3l3uSDpFaire partie du changement, c’est simple comme 1-2-3! Il y a plusieurs autres façons de s'impliquer pour demander du soutien politique.➡️ bit.ly/3Zz4PmB ... See MoreSee Less

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**Nutrition Month 2023: **# **Unlocking the potential of food to connect us!****March is Nutrition Month, facilitated each year by [Dietitians of Canada](www.dietitians.ca/Advocacy/Nutrition-Month/Nutrition-Month-2023/Nutrition-Month-2023-Social-media...), and this year’s theme is unlocking the potential of food.**Throughout the 2022/23 school year Farm to Cafeteria Canada has been celebrating the theme of [“Food Connects”](www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca/?p=32126), honouring the power of food to connect us to so much of the world around us.In honour of Nutrition Month 2023, we are sharing 2 key ways to**unlock the potential of *school* food to connect us.****Find them here! **👇**https://www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca/2023/03/nutrition-month-2023-unlocking-the-potential-of-food-to-connect-us/****#foodconnects #farm2school #NutritionMonth2023** ... See MoreSee Less

Nutrition Month 2023: unlocking the potential of food to connect us! - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

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The Great Big Crunch is now facilitated by the Coalition for Healthy School Food and they’ve prepared some great resources, including an Activity Toolkit and Communications Toolkit to make crunching...

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