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A plate of food including bannock and chili

Mar

Cherry Hill Elementary: more than just a food program

March 1, 2024F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Cherry Hill Elementary, Mission, BC Grant term 2022-2024 At Cherry Hill Elementary School, an amazing initiative has taken root, bringing about a big change in the way our students perceive food and nutrition. With a student body of approximately 270 from Kindergarten to Grade 6, we proudly entered our second year of implementing the Farm...

Boy in a garden holding a shovel with a wheelbarrow of soil beside him

Feb

Eating, Growing and Thriving in the Shuswap!

February 27, 2024F2CC adminCanada Digs In, F2S Grants, Home Page Blog Feed

Carlin Elementary Middle School, North-Okanagan Shuswap, BC Grant term 2022-2024 In 2021 Carlin Elementary Middle School in the North-Okanagan Shuswap became the lucky recipients of the Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) grant. From this exciting news we embarked on a collective journey that led us back to our own backyard – so to speak. Carlin...

Sep

CBC’s LunchLAB film highlights Canada’s opportunities and responsibilities to advance student health and wellbeing

September 13, 2023Jesse VeenstraEnglish, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Policy, Stories from the field, Uncategorized, Videos

As students across Canada begin their first full week of classes, CBC Vancouver released a new film that features LunchLAB, a great example of the Farm to School Approach, providing students with access to healthy food, hands-on learning opportunities, and community connections. Directed by Ben Cox, this film explores Lord Roberts Elementary School’s lunchroom and garden,...

May

An overview of the 2022 Farm to School grant recipients meeting in Quebec!

May 3, 2023F2CC adminUncategorized

In 2022, five primary and high schools in Quebec received the Farm to School Canada grant to implement sustainable food programs. The initiatives developed have led to the creation of salad bars, culinary workshops involving the students, greenhouses and school gardens and many other activities, all inspired by the Farm to School approach! Équiterre, a...

Jan

New food program gives high school students lessons in sustainability — and tasty tacos

January 13, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Holy Heart of Mary High School, St. John’s, NL Grant term 2022-2024 CBC News Dec 10, 2022 11:59 AM CST Amanda Gear Farm to Cafeteria teaches schools sustainable food production and funds kitchen equipment Read the original CBC news story here and watch their video coverage of Holy Heart’s salad bar day A new national...

Nov

Birchmount School in Moncton takes its learning to the gardens

November 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Hydroponics

Alana Pickrell CTVNewsAtlantic.ca Video Journalist Published Nov. 21, 2022 3:28 p.m. CST Birchmount School in Moncton, New Brunswick was recently paid a visit by CTV News where they shared their excitement and future plans around their new 2022 Farm to School Canada grant. Their goal is to feed the school’s 200 students year long from an...

Nov

From Planters to a School Food Forest

November 14, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Toronto’s Kapapamahchakwew Wandering Spirit School has big plans for a sustainable food system Ismaila Alfa from CBC’s Metro Morning in Toronto met with a class at Toronto’s Kapapamahchakwew Wandering Spirit School, a 2022 Farm to School Canada grant recipient. He spoke with the Outdoor Education teacher, Laurie LaBrecque, as the grade 3 class was playing the three sisters...

Aug

Welcome to our 2022 Farm to School Canada Grant Recipients!

August 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Aug

Small Beginnings Grow Big

August 5, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Palmerston Avenue Public School, Toronto, ON Grant term 2020-2022 Palmerston Avenue Public School is located in the Seaton Village area of the downtown Toronto Annex community. The school was first built in 1889. In 1897 a third floor was added and in 1915 the Annex building was constructed. The newer building opened in 1956. Palmerston...

Jul

What have our 2020 Grant Recipients been up to?

July 18, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Two years of growing, learning and participating in local food systems! About the Farm to School Canada Grants Offered in partnership with Whole Kids Foundation and delivered directly to schools, Farm to School Canada Grants are valued at up to $10,000 each and are designed to bring more healthy, local foods into school communities. They...