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Oct

Healthy People, Healthy Planet Resource List

October 1, 2019F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Salt Spring Elementary, Salt Spring, BC The Farm to School approach (F2S) aims to transform food systems by bringing more healthy, local and sustainable food to the minds and plates of students. F2S is aligned with several UN Sustainable Development Goals, the new Canada’s Food Guide recommendations and the vision for a Food Policy for Canada. In light of its...

Sep

Educate young people about the need for healthy food through the salad bar

September 9, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Waterloo Elementary School, Waterloo, Québec 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Since 2016, Waterloo Elementary School in Montérégie has been offering its students and staff the opportunity to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day. What began as a simple experiment by cafeteria manager Jenny Wheeler quickly turned into a well-stocked, healthy salad bar. “After being inspired...

Aug

Salad Days at MGCI

August 27, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute (Secondary), Toronto, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Our journey began in 2017 with a casual conversation: a student garden would support our greenhouse activities, and make a great connection for our hospitality program… and with that we should have a student salad bar! Our overall vision was to foster a culture of local...

Salisbury Elementary school, Salisbury NB

Jul

Expanding Food Literacy Through Farm to School

July 31, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Salisbury Elementary School, Salisbury, New Brunswick 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) The Farm to School grant to Salisbury Elementary school allowed us to expand our goals of providing food literacy to our students. Students brainstormed ideas around promoting our Salad Bar. They created posters, songs and digital pictures. They started a “buy 5 salads and get...

Jul

Learning About Science Through Salad Bar!

July 29, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Geary Elementary School, Geary NB 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) This spring the Grade 2 students at Geary Elementary Community School took on a new and exciting challenge to produce our own greens using the grow tower. Our goal was to produce vegetables to be used not only for our own class to experiment tasting, but...

Jul

Elementary and High School Work Together for Salad Bar Success!

July 26, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Sydenham High School, Sydenham, ON 2018-2019 (Additional Story) Sydenham High School is in a rural setting yet holds about 700 students. It was very fortunate to receive a beautiful new kitchen as part of a renovation a few years ago. In collaboration with our neighbouring elementary school, Loughborough, we have been helping to provide local...

Jul

From Seed To Sub

July 18, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Riverview Middle School, Riverview, NB 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Thanks to a partnership with Farm to Cafeteria Canada, we can offer students healthier food options. As an alternative to their traditional hot lunch options, student can now order customized subs and salads sourced from locally sourced produce and meat. In order to address the region’s short...

Jul

From Farm to Table, and back again – in 100 steps!

July 17, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Sir Guy Carleton Secondary, Ottawa, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Year one of our Farm to School salad bar adventure has come to a close, and what a phenomenal year it has been. By joining this amazing initiative, we have been able to take our existing foods and green industries programs and expand both to...

Jul

Farm to School Approach in Action

July 10, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Oakwood Public School, Oakville, ON 2018-2019 (Year 3) With the 2018/19 school year having official drawn to a close, the F2CC team has had the privilege of hearing from our many grantees participating in the Farm to School Canada: Digs-In! initiative and all that they’ve been up to in the past school year. This includes...

Cambridge-Narrows Community School (C-NCS) Cambridge-Narrows, NB

Jul

Six years of Farm to School & still going strong!

July 9, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Cambridge-Narrows Community School (C-NCS) Cambridge-Narrows, NB 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) The small Village of Cambridge-Narrows is located in South-Central New Brunswick and their community school is home to a thriving Farm to School initiative which benefits students from kindergarten to grade 12. Originally part of F2CC’s Nourishing School Communities initiative, this school is still going...