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Mar

Nominate a school food champion in your community!

March 21, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Who is a school food champion? Anyone can be a school food champion! School food champions look different in all communities but they have one thing in common: a passion for connecting students to healthy food and the people and systems that produce it. To honour school food champions across Canada, we’re launching “Food Connects...

Feb

Seniors & Students Growing Together: an Intergenerational Garden Case Study

February 16, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

In Maple Ridge, British Columbia, you’ll find an Intergenerational Garden that has been nourishing its community for almost 10 years. Through the garden project, young students, seniors and teachers are growing and learning together. Seniors are passing down important knowledge, and young people are learning how to grow food and care for a garden. The...

Feb

Traditional Foods in Montana School Meals

February 2, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Nourishing School Communities, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Toolkit for native foods in Montana school meal programs This toolkit, created in partnership by Montana No Kid Hungry and Indigikitchen, is designed to help school food service professionals identify, procure, and successfully incorporate traditional, healthy foods into their breakfast and lunch programs. It is also a teaching tool to educate those interested in traditional...

Jan

Residents of the Bow Valley Gather for Local School Food!

January 10, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Inspired by the farm to school Learning Circle model, in March of 2022, the Let’s Gather! event hosted in Canmore, AB encouraged community members in the Bow Valley to connect and spark dialogue around local and resilient food systems by exploring this theme through the lens of school food. This post shares what inspired the...

Dec

Nourishing Change in Schools

December 5, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Nov

Birchmount School in Moncton takes its learning to the gardens

November 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Alana Pickrell CTVNewsAtlantic.ca Video Journalist Published Nov. 21, 2022 3:28 p.m. CST Birchmount School in Moncton, New Brunswick was recently paid a visit by CTV News where they shared their excitement and future plans around their new 2022 Farm to School Canada grant. Their goal is to feed the school’s 200 students year long from an...

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...

Nov

Nova Scotia announces work on universal school lunch program

November 1, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Photo: The Thoughtful Food Project at Musquodoboit Rural High School , Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia Last week, Nova Scotia’s deputy Minister of Education told MLAs on the Public Accounts Committee that Nova Scotia is “actively working on the development of a universal lunch program that would be free to all children, universally available.” The province...

Aug

Welcome to our 2022 Farm to School Canada Grant Recipients!

August 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

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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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