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Jun

PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱

June 3, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ is an incredible nursery and garden program that means “Blossoming Place”, in SENĆOŦEN, the language of the W̱SÁNEĆ people. PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ nursery and garden program grows native plants such as ELILE ( Salmon Berry) and ḰȽO,EL (Camas) for ecosystem restoration and traditional food projects throughout W̱SÁNEĆ territory. PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ is located at the...

May

Q’wemtsín Health Society’s Indigenous Food Sovereignty Video Series

May 19, 2022F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities, Videos

Seed to Harvest, Language and Traditional Practices In collaboration with three communities; Skeetchestn Indian Band, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, the Q’wemtsín Health Society (QHS) has created a series of videos to promote growing and sharing food in their communities. Working with students, teachers, Elders, and knowledge keepers, each video teaches skills...

May

Churchbridge Public School – Getting Kids Gardening

May 18, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Churchbridge Public School (CPS), Churchbridge, SK Grant term 2020-2022 Churchbridge Public School (CPS) is a K-12 school in the town of Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, about 2.5 hours east of Regina. It is also one of the first Saskatchewan schools to receive a Farm to School Canada Grant. Like many grant recipient schools in 2020, CPS was...

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...

May

From the beginning: St. Joseph’s Farm to Cafeteria

May 12, 2022F2CC adminF2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Port Elgin, ON Grant term 2020-2022 St. Joseph’s Catholic School, in Port Elgin, Ontario, had our Farm to Cafeteria plan all laid out. We had a purchase plan, we had a time frame, we had volunteers already to start our big plans, and we were excited. Then COVID came, and we...

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...