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May

New Farm to School Evaluation Tools

May 2, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Evaluation is important. It can help us understand the effects of our work, improve our programs, and share our impacts to gain further support. That’s why we released a Farm to School Evaluation Framework for Canada last year, with the input of over 140 individuals from diverse sectors across the country. The Framework articulates 18...

Apr

Students at Fairview Community School grow their own food!

April 26, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Fairview Community School, Nanaimo, BC Grant term 2020-2022 Students at Fairview Community School, in Nanaimo, have just completed their 2nd round of celebration salads where they were able to eat local foods in their classrooms. Students grow their own seedlings for the school garden and harvest the microgreens for their own locally-sourced, personal salads. They...

Apr

Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Authority (KTCEA) serves traditional food in schools

April 22, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

“I am grateful that they [students] have this program and I want other nations to introduce this program into their communities as well.” Clifford Gladue While sitting having a cup of tea and bannock with an Elder in his community, Clifford Gladue learned about an important document, the Alberta First Nations Food Sovereignty declaration. This...

Apr

Gretna Green – Learning to grow year-round

April 20, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Gretna Green School, Miramichi, NB K-8 Grant term 2020-2022 Gretna Green is a school in the charming city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. It is a small K-8 school in the heart of the city yet it is surrounded by trees. The school has gotten even “greener” in the last two years as we undertook a...

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

Soup Day at Vanier

April 14, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Vanier Elementary School, St. John’s, NL Grant term 2020-2022

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...

Feb

How Farm to School Supports Climate Action

February 17, 2022F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Skeetchestn Community School garden, Kamloops, BC At Farm to Cafeteria Canada, we’ve been thinking a lot about the role that school food programs can play in climate action. After all, the way that food is handled all along the food supply chain impacts our energy, water and land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil...

Feb

Amplifying Youth Voices: Call for participants

February 17, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Farm to Cafeteria Canada works towards realizing vibrant and sustainable school food systems and we’re committed to including the voices of the Youth in Canada who are impacted by this work. F2CC is seeking youth from across the country to inform the development of a National Youth Engagement Strategy. We’re inviting youth applicants to participate...

Feb

Farm to school programs advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals

February 15, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

In June 2021 Food Secure Canada published the paper School Food and the Sustainable Development Goals: A pathway to meeting multiple goals and targets. This paper looked at the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrates how school food initiatives are a strong pathway to advancing them. In January 2022 the Coalition for Healthy...