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Oct

Schools Take Root Supplies Schools with Organic Veggie Baskets

October 9, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Farm to School Month, Farms, Stories from the field

More than 20 local farms will supply 74 schools with organic baskets this fall! The Schools Take Root project aims to create awareness about local, organic food in Quebec schools by implementing the sale of organic vegetable baskets grown by local farmers as a fundraising event. This helps get children and their families interested in...

Oct

Salad Bar Grant Recipients Share F2S’s Impact in Ontario

October 1, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Nobel Public School A number of schools across Ontario are entering the third year of their Farm to School Salad Bar Grants, and the Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) blog has been blooming with their 2018 stories and updates, touching on everything from food literacy and local food procurement, to student nutrition, sustainability education and more. Whether it’s...

Oct

Fresh Ideas in Farm to School

October 1, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Summer Salad Bars at the Farmers’ Market in New Denver BC Salad bars…in the summer?! Yes please! Inspired by the Farm to School (F2S) salad bar, the Healthy Community Society of the North Slocan Valley (HCS) created a healthy and innovative pilot project this summer. Read about how one BC Farm to School program spurred...

Sep

Rooftop Garden at Eastdale Collegiate Institute

September 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Eastdale Collegiate Institute is a small, inclusive high school with a focus on individual support and vocational skills for students in grades 9-12. Many of the students have special needs or learning exceptions, and Eastdale’s garden program is a valuable tool for life lessons and job training. “About half of our students are not earning...

Results from the 2018 National Farm to Early Care and Education Survey

Sep

Growing Healthy Futures for All Children

September 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Publications, Stories from the field

2018 US National Farm to Early Care and Education Survey The National Farm to School Network, in partnership with Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, launched the 2018 National Farm to Early Care and Education Survey in the spring of 2018. We heard from 2,030 respondents serving 255,257 children in 46 states about current farm to ECE initiatives, including...

Sep

Reframing Healthy Food in Health Care Webinar

September 13, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Videos, Webinar

The question of what qualifies as “healthy” food is highly contested in health care and beyond. This conversation is alive and well in our leadership cohort, and we want to engage it publicly. At the Reframing Healthy Food in Heath Care webinar we brought together diverse perspectives from three thought-leaders to explore how hospitals and...

Sep

Planting Campus Gardens

September 10, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Karim Wadood, a senior, pulls weeds with Abby Wallace, a sophomore, at The George Washington University’s GroW Garden. (Photo by Calla Kessler/The Washington Post) University students root themselves in the larger world On Wednesday afternoon, when the city felt trapped inside a soup cauldron, Yvana Petros, 21, crouched alongside H Street NW and dug her...

Sep

Growing a Garden Grows Awareness of Intricate Food System

September 7, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Dr. Tara Moreau, a plant scientist and lead researcher and educator at the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. She helps people focus on real-life solutions to help prop up place-based food systems. Our F2CC team attended the Place Based Food Systems Conference in August, with the opportunity to connect with thought leaders...

Sep

‘Farm-to-school’ Movement Takes Root in Canada

September 5, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

A “farm-to-school” movement is growing fast across Canada. More than 40,000 students were eating local fruits and vegetables at 150 Ontario schools during 2017-18, via the Tasty Ontario Tuesdays program. Led by the southwest branch of the Ontario Student Nutrition Program (OSNP), supported by the Greenbelt Foundation and Foodland Ontario, this program has purchased and delivered over $55,000 of local...

Aug

Conestoga prof plants Indigenous foods garden to help teach land management

August 22, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: An Indigenous foods garden is being created at the Rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge. Leading the project is Andrew Judge, a a professor and co-ordinator of Indigenous studies at Conestoga College.(Submitted by Andrew Judge) The sounds of birds and insects envelop Andrew Judge as he stands in a new garden at the Rare Charitable Research...