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Mar

Toronto Chef Jesus Gomez Makes Vegetable-Focused School Cafeteria Food Kids Will Actually Eat

March 2, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

It’s lunchtime in a Toronto high school and chef Jesus Gomez awaits with vegetables aplenty. On today’s menu at the Good Food Café: baked chicken drumsticks, vegetable beef tacos, green bean-red pepper salad, squash-beet salad, broccoli-carrot-cabbage slaw, baked potato wedges, vegetable pizza, green salad and fruit cups. It’s a good-looking spread. There’s choice, but not...

Feb

Durham School Board Creates Unique Strategy for Buying Local Food

February 24, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

Photo: The Durham District School Board is now buying six items for its high school cafeterias from Ontario farms, part of the board’s Cafeteria Connects Project. Latha Raguram prepared some fresh salads for lunch in the cafeteria at Sinclair Secondary School. February 18, 2015. Ron Pietroniro / Metroland DURHAM — When local students grab a container of veggies...

Feb

Classroom Connects Curriculum Package

February 24, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Publications, Stories from the field

This curriculum guide offers a rich set of resources to open meaningful conversations with secondary students about our local food system, and to prepare them to better understand the complexities of our food choices. Brimming with big ideas, these 15 lesson plans contain clear curriculum connections, step by step instructions for lesson preparation and delivery,...

Feb

Ontario Establishes Goals to Increase Awareness of Local Food Learn About the Good Things Growing in Ontario

February 13, 2015F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Publications

Ontario is spreading the word about local food to help increase consumer awareness of, and demand for, the good things that are grown, harvested and made in Ontario. Buying and supporting local food creates jobs and economic growth in communities across the province. As part of the Local Food Act, 2013, the Province has established...

Jan

For the Love of Local

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

Food activist Joshna Maharaj says delicious Ontario-grown food is waiting for you—all you have to do is ask. Joshna Maharaj has a message for anyone who’s suffered the disappointment of hospital food. “Be angrier on that feedback form! Tell them exactly how you feel.” Problem is, she says, you get that feedback card after your...

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...

FoodShare, Good Food Cafe, Toronto, ON, GreenFuse photography / FoodShare, Good Food Café (Café à la bonne bouffe), Toronto, Ont., GreenFuse Photography

Jan

A Model for Healthy Food in Ontario Schools: FoodShare’s Good Food Café

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

Photo: Laura Berman, Greenfuse Photography Good healthy food for all – this is the mandate in which FoodShare bases all of their work. Working with communities and schools since 1985 to deliver healthy food and food education, FoodShare has a number of projects and initiatives that work to increase access to affordable high-quality fresh food....

Oct

Webinar: Working with School Boards to Get Healthy Local and Sustainable Foods into the Minds and into the Mouths of Kids at School

October 27, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Webinar

On October 7, 2014, Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network hosted a webinar featuring three innovative case studies illuminating ways to work effectively with school boards to integrate health local food into school meals and food literacy into school curriculum. The webinar featured an hour long discussion with presenters Soni Craik of Ecosource (Region of Peel), Brent...

Oct

Ryerson University Goes Locavore

October 16, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, In the News, Stories from the field

When Joshna Maharaj took charge of the food at Ryerson University last year there was a lot of negativity to overcome. Terms like “crappy” and “expensive” described the experience of eating on campus. Students and faculty, outraged by multimillion-dollar losses incurred by the multinational corporation that had been the campus food provider for two decades,...

Aug

Little Chefs Learning the Joys of Cooking

August 19, 2014F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Little Chefs program helping local children develop healthy cooking skills and nutrition literacy. Source: Kawartha Lakes This Week Journalist: Catherine Whitnall Date: 08.15.14 Click here to see the full article.