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Feb

Cultivating ReconciliACTION in School Food Programming

February 1, 2023Jesse VeenstraHome Page Blog Feed

Nov

Native Farm to School Guide

November 21, 2022F2CC adminUncategorized

Connecting Traditional Foods, Stories, Language, and Community Developed through an analysis of Native and non-Native Farm to School programs, the Native Farm to School Guide: Connecting Traditional Foods, Stories, Language, and Community guide identifies best practices, lessons learned, biggest challenges and case studies of successful programs. The Guide also outlines planning activities, assessment tools, and...

Oct

Get on the New School Food Map!

October 24, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

May

Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit

May 25, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Are you looking at finding ways to make community gardens more physically accessible? The Public Health Association of BC’s Can You Dig It program launched a Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit as an easy-to-use guide for garden coordinators. The purpose of the Community Garden Accessibility Toolkit is to explore how Universal Design principles can be applied...

May

Kweselkten Agriculture Guide

May 17, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

The Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Interior First Nations (CFDC of CIFN) developed this Kweselkten Agricultural guide. This guide provides information about agriculture techniques and activities through conversation with local producers living and growing food within the Secwépemc territory, including Tk’emlups, Simpcw, and Skeetchestn, and well as on Nlaka’pamux territory. In this guide, you...

Jan

The Good Food Purchasing Initiative’s Guide for Growers and Food Businesses

January 5, 2022F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Attention growers & food businesses! Are you interested in selling to schools and other public institutions? The Chicago Food Policy Action Council has created The Good Food Purchasing Initiative’s Guide for Growers and Food Businesses! While developed for the metro-Chicago area, growers and food businesses in other areas may benefit from this guide’s information on values-based procurement and more. ...

Nov

Hydroponics in the Classroom

November 26, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

Hydroponics systems are more popular than ever as a teaching tool in schools. With short growing seasons in many areas of Canada, hydroponics systems allow students to engage in experiential learning, year-round. In this blog post, we’ll equip you with the tools and resources you need to decide if hydroponics is right for your classroom...

Oct

Quebec farm to school resource guide

October 13, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Featured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Getting Started

Équiterre has developed the guide Improving local food procurement in Quebec schools. This guide provides essential information and concrete tools to accompany Quebec schools as they develop healthy, local and environmentally responsible food initiatives. Check out the guide here!

Oct

Land-based Learning Resource List

October 1, 2021F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Photo credit: Government of BC and Feed BC, from Traditional foods and Indigenous recipes in B.C.’s public institutions Education about our local food system must tie back to the land and its histories and stories. Land-based learning involves learning from the land and water, and understanding and fostering our connection to them. Farm to school...

Oct

F2S Month 2021: Celebrating Land-Based Learning

October 1, 2021F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Farm to school, also known as local food to school, is grounded in re-learning, re-establishing and acknowledging and supporting existing place-based food systems. As F2CC works to advance food systems rooted in place, and as we work to better honour Indigenous ways of knowing and being, we were pleased to share that during Farm to School...

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# **New website design and menu!**If you haven't visited our website in a while, you'll notice that we have undergone an exciting new redesign, aimed to make it easier to find what you're looking for!Our new menu focuses on **How We Work** and the **Support We Offer**:* Schools* Community Partners* Local Food Providers * Funders & Design-makers* Indigenous Programs You'll also find all **Our** **Initiatives** in one spot, as well as our **Resource Centre** and **Inspiring Grant Stories**. **More info is coming later in the year regarding our next grant run **but in the meantime check out other opportunities via links in our **Providing Funds** section! Wander on over, look through the new site and let us know what you think! www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca#farm2school #localfood #schoolfood #websiteredesign ... See MoreSee Less

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Did you participate in the Great Big Crunch?#LaGrandeCroquée| Aujourd'hui, participez à cette initiative pancanadienne de la Coallition pour la saine alimentation scolaire qui célèbre l'approvisionnement local et écoresponsable dans nos institutions publiques! Bonne croquée! 🍎🍎🍎 ➡️ bit.ly/3l3uSDpFaire partie du changement, c’est simple comme 1-2-3! Il y a plusieurs autres façons de s'impliquer pour demander du soutien politique.➡️ bit.ly/3Zz4PmB ... See MoreSee Less

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**Nutrition Month 2023: **# **Unlocking the potential of food to connect us!****March is Nutrition Month, facilitated each year by [Dietitians of Canada](www.dietitians.ca/Advocacy/Nutrition-Month/Nutrition-Month-2023/Nutrition-Month-2023-Social-media...), and this year’s theme is unlocking the potential of food.**Throughout the 2022/23 school year Farm to Cafeteria Canada has been celebrating the theme of [“Food Connects”](www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca/?p=32126), honouring the power of food to connect us to so much of the world around us.In honour of Nutrition Month 2023, we are sharing 2 key ways to**unlock the potential of *school* food to connect us.****Find them here! **👇**https://www.farmtocafeteriacanada.ca/2023/03/nutrition-month-2023-unlocking-the-potential-of-food-to-connect-us/****#foodconnects #farm2school #NutritionMonth2023** ... See MoreSee Less

Nutrition Month 2023: unlocking the potential of food to connect us! - Farm to Cafeteria Canada

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The Great Big Crunch is now facilitated by the Coalition for Healthy School Food and they’ve prepared some great resources, including an Activity Toolkit and Communications Toolkit to make crunching...

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