St. Bonaventure’s College won the grant for: Engaging students in growing, cooking or preserving local foods at school. A value of $1500. Congratulations! Their Farm to School Month Story: Thanksgiving is a time of year that brings family and friends together. It knits a community, however loosely, to a sense of the season. And nothing...Read More

Exciting things are happening on the northern shore of Lake Superior at Westgate high school in Thunder Bay. A cafeteria makeover began on August 30th this year, when the Get Fresh Café opened its doors to the students. The vision of the new café is to prepare fresh and from scratch flavourful food to promote...Read More

‘Cafeteria’ is devoted to improving our children’s school menus. Your work is so important, so basic. ‘Cafeteria’ has won 3 awards: Best acadian short film at the Festival international du cinema francophone en Acadie 2015 in Moncton, NB Best franco-canadian film at the Rendez-vous du Cinema québécois 2015 in Montreal, QC Prix du public Radio-Canada...Read More

Photo: City Harvest Co-operative’s Heather Parker, second from right, plants squash on Tuesday with Vic High students, from left: Dani Birge, Alexis Cumpstone, Sterling Beeston and Eden Murray.   Photograph By BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist – See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/vic-high-students-get-hands-dirty-in-school-garden-1.2257466#sthash.WHWPH1HM.dpuf Neatly kept beds full of carrots, lettuce, herbs and more fill a corner of the grounds at...Read More

Kids will be learning to grow food sustainably on the Sardis Secondary School Farm this summer. Not only that, SSS students will also be running a veggie bin business to supply 40 local families with fresh produce every week. “This will be the first year the students have a farm as a classroom,” said Agriculture...Read More

College Heights Secondary School, Guelph ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) This year’s theme for the College Heights Secondary School Salad Bar program has been “Connections!” In Guelph, Ontario we live in a City with a rich agricultural background. As a small vocational school with 400 students we have been able to connect to all corners of...Read More

At institutions throughout New England, dining staff are beginning to look to the sea as another source for local foods. Institutions from across health care, colleges & universities, and K-12 school systems are incorporating locally caught seafood into their meals for a variety of reasons and through a variety of procurement models. FINE set out...Read More

The Farm to School Salad Bar is a new and innovative initiative in British Columbia (BC) designed to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables amongst students and raise awareness of the health benefits of doing so. Although the concept of farm to school appears simple, it has multiple planning-related objectives including adopting a comprehensive...Read More

Schools, post-secondary, healthcare institutions and Crown corporations collectively purchase millions of dollars’ worth of food annually, yet little is known around how much local food has been purchased. At the same time, their large purchasing power and role as public facilities put institutions in a unique position to be positive drivers for growing our local...Read More

Beyond connecting with local farms and farmers, Haida Gwaii schools are incorporating hunting, gathering, foraging, gardening and greenhouses into their schools’ food supply. This idea emerged naturally in a place where wild foods are so plentiful and the culture of feasting and sharing food is central to the island culture. This remote archipelago along the...Read More