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UBC Leading the Farm-to-Healthcare Movement

Jun

Farm to Hospital on Campus: UBC leads the way!

June 24, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Stories from the field

Patients in healthcare facilities are immunologically vulnerable, and it is essential to provide them with adequate nutrition to maximize healing and recovery. This concept is the driving force for an innovative farm-to-healthcare initiative at the University of British Columbia. In January 2014, The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm embarked on a three-year...

May

How Brazil Cracked the Local Food Distribution Puzzle

May 28, 2014English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Photo Above: Farmer Dona Madalena with a crop of passion fruit sold through the farm to school program in Tangara de Serra, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Hannah Wittman. When Hannah Wittman first started traveling to Central Brazil more than a decade ago, she was astounded at the sheer tenacity of the small family farmers...

May

Can We Talk About Race in the Food Movement?

May 6, 2014English, Stories from the field

When pioneering chef and advocate Alice Waters told the thousand-plus delegates at a recent Farm to Cafeteria conference that “the question of local food is deeply a question of equality,” she struck a chord that had been resonating throughout the conference all week. Sure, local food is about good health and the environment. It’s about supporting...

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...

Apr

Farm to Cafeteria Canada Supports Local Food Acts: Local farmers want new markets, patients and students want local food.

April 3, 2014English, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Our efforts are paying off! Farm to Cafeteria Canada has been working behind the scenes with representatives from diverse sectors right across the country to support the introduction and adoption of policy that will get more local foods into our public institutions. Last June, we were delighted to support the introduction of bill C-539 in...

Jan

Equiterre helps daycares buy local food

January 29, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

In 2013, 15 daycare centres in the Montérégie region of Quebec received help from environmental group Equiterre as part of the Croqu’Plaisir program, which encourages the creation of healthy food environments for preschoolers in daycare facilities, in part by promoting the purchase of local produce. It was the program’s first year, and already, the results...

Oct

Local in the Lunchroom – Results From The USDA Farm to School Census

October 22, 2013English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

The USDA’s National Farm to School Census data was made available on October 22, 2013, just 12 days after Farm to Cafeteria Canada released the first national survey of local food activity in Canadian schools, campuses and health care facilities To determine the prevalence of farm to school programs in the United States, USDA surveyed...

Oct

Fundraising With a Crunch

October 22, 2013English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

It’s harvest time and the Farm to School Manitoba Healthy Choice Fundraiser (Farm2SchoolMB) is delivering orders of fruits and Vegetables from Manitoba Farms to licensed child care facilities and schools grades K-12 throughout the province. Sponsored by the Province of Manitoba, Manitoba Association of Home Economists (MAHE), Peak of the Market and Buy...

Oct

Campuses drive local food purchasing: survey

October 11, 2013English, Farm to Campus, In the News

VANCOUVER/Tyee/ – Colleges and universities are driving local food procurement in the public sphere, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Farm to Cafeteria Canada, is the first of its kind to look at local food purchasing by public institutions across Canada. In total, 239 representatives from colleges and universities, public schools and health care facilities...

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...