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Jan

Big Appetites for Local Food

January 29, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

What happens when you give Ontario school kids the choice to eat healthier locally sourced food? This past December, 270 grade sixes from neighbouring elementary schools descended on Guelph’s St. James Catholic High School, home of a groundbreaking local-food-focused hospitality program, to sample snacks cooked up by the high school’s hospitality students. For a whole...

Apr

Foods Work: Doing What Comes Naturally in Haida Gwaii

April 15, 2014Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field

Place-based learning. Culturally Responsive Education. Experiential learning. Life-long learning. Nice ideas, now what does that look like in the classroom? Come and see how two teacher’s explorations into connecting students with their learning evolved into a Foods Program that spills across curriculum and enlivens the campus of a rural BC high school on the islands of Haida Gwaii. In the...

Oct

Local Food: Canadian Schools, Campuses and Health Care Facilities Speak Up

October 10, 2013English, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field

According to new report commissioned by Farm to Cafeteria Canada, activity to bring healthy, local and sustainable foods into public agencies is gearing up in almost every province and territory in Canada – and there is a hunger for more. The Report- Local Foods- Canadian schools, campuses, and health care facilities speak up (2013) is the first...

Jun

Farm to School: Stories From the Field in Greater Vancouver

June 18, 2013English, Publications

[gdl_gallery title=”GALLERY_TITLE” width=”IMAGE_SRC” height=”IMAGE_HEIGHT” ] Hot off the press – a brand new booklet providing an overview of Greater Vancouver’s first six Farm to School programs. Learn about the people, their schools, and their successes and challenges implementing Farm to School programs. Thanks to the collective efforts of the school communities, farmers, and partners from...

Apr

Farm to Cafeteria: BC Communities Share Paths to Success

April 11, 2013F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Publications

Designed to inform and inspire, this resource provides an overview of key Farm to Cafeteria concepts and models. It illuminates innovative and successful Farm to School, Farm to Campus, and Farm to Hospital programs in 5 urban, rural, remote, and aboriginal BC communities. Download: F2C-PathsToSuccess

Nov

Dig In Webinars will return in November! Click to see the archives.

November 14, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Videos, Webinar

The Dig In Webinars have been put on hold for the summer months. Please stay in touch as they will be resuming in November. Save the dates – “Dig In” mini webinars will be offered on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 3 pm EST. Previous Webinars: April 16th, 2013: “Institutional Procurement in a Free...

Oct

What are 300 tilapia doing in a Toronto high school?

October 21, 2012F2CC CommunicationsEnglish, Farm to School, In the News

Source: The Globe and Mail- October 19, 2012 Every morning when he arrives at school, Cody Sponagle, a whippet-thin 17-year-old, feeds the fish in Classroom S1 in Bendale Business and Technical Institute, in central Scarborough. But this is no ordinary student chore. Mr. Sponagle and a handful of his classmates in Bendale’s “green industries” program...