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Mar

Farm to School at Fogo Island Central Academy

March 3, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School

Instructional Resource Teacher, Susan Crawford, describes how the school community at Fogo Island Central Academy has worked together to make their dreams of having local, healthy and fresh food come to life with dedication from students, teachers, parents and support from an experienced farmer in Fogo: “We are an island community located on the Northeast coast...

Jan

Farm to Caf and Get Fresh Café

January 31, 2017F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

The Get Fresh Café is a high school cafeteria model at Westgate CVI that offers fresh and from scratch meals using local and Ontario food, every day. New flavours, combined with seasonal ingredients, all blend together to produce menu options that the entire school is excited about. The Get Fresh Café is where the food culture...

Clare, Emily, Sarah, Casey, Mia. Forest Grove Elementary Students, BC.

Nov

Forest Grove Elementary, BC is a Farm to School Month Canada 2016 Winner!

November 25, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Forest Grove Elementary won the grant for: Connecting students to local food producers such as farmers, gardeners, chefs, bakers, cheese makers etc. A value of $1500. Congratulations! Their Farm to School Month Story: From Oct 3 to October 7th, 2016, Forest Grove Elementary participated in a number of seed to table experiences. The Kindergarten and Gr....

Nov

St. Bonaventure’s College, NL is a Farm to School Month Canada 2016 Winner!

November 25, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

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...

Oct

Transforming the Systems That Feed Our Kids

October 21, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

The drive to get the local harvest in the minds and mouths of students is gearing up during Farm to School Month in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the Northwest Coast of BC. “Haida Gwaii is surrounded by good food and rich traditions of eating from the land and the sea and the fall is when...

Oct

Montérégie Daycares are Putting Local Foods on the Menu!

October 21, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Throughout the Montérégie area (a large agricultural region south of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec), daycares are committed to local, sustainable food. Whether through regular sourcing of local products, direct connections with organic farming families or the development of learning gardens and educational activities, these daycares are teaming with stories and ideas to help...

Oct

Grow Your Own Soup

October 21, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field, Videos

CBC Features Calgary’s Edible Schoolyard They grow their soup and eat it too. A CBC crew arrived at Altadore School in Calgary during Farm to School Month to film the city’s first large-scale, Edible Schoolyard. The organic, ecological garden is located on a quarter-acre of public school land and includes raised-bed seed-to-table food gardening for 16...

Oct

Dr. Suzuki Responds to Letter from Sprouting Chefs’ Founder, Barb McMahon

October 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Sprouting Chefs has been busy growing and cooking with school gardens at Burnaby Schools since2011. In February 2016 we planned our first ever annual fundraiser to help increase awareness and funding for our school garden programs. In order to make the event a success, I decided to take a huge leap of faith. The leap...

Oct

Roots to Harvest, Farm to School Month

October 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

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...

Oct

100,000 Students Crunching

October 3, 2016F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

The Ontario Student Nutrition Program-Southwest Region’s Goal for the Great Big Crunch On Thursday, October 20, 2016, schools across Southwestern Ontario will be participating in OSNP-SW’s Great Big Crunch in celebration of Canada’s National Farm to School Month. The Great Big Crunch is a special day of good food education dedicated to locally grown apples...