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Mar

Roots to Harvest Case Study: Outdoor Food Literacy deemed an “Essential Service” during COVID-19

March 24, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Indigenous School Story, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Roots to Harvest is a non-profit organization that offers employment and experiential education opportunities in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Their mission is to use food as a tool to connect people to one another and build belonging and dignity through meaningful programs, initiatives and advocacy. Roots to Harvest’s many programs illustrate their broad mandate: Youth employment...

Mar

Huband Park Elementary’s Salad Bar: Safely Adapting to COVID-19

March 24, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

School food programs everywhere have had to adapt to COVID-19 over the past year, and this of course includes our Salad Bar Grantees. The following case study shares the story of Huband Park Elementary School in Courtenay, British Columbia, who have been able to pivot to the new reality with great success. This shift has...

Mar

A Salad Bar Success Case Study: St. Dominic & St. Luke in Oakville, Ontario

March 1, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, F2CC News, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

St. Dominic Catholic Elementary School and St. Luke Catholic Elementary School, two of our Farm to School Canada Grant recipients located in Oakville, Ontario, have found great success in delivering their salad bar lunch programs through a business model launched by two parents, Stacey Bean and Jill O’Reilley. To share how they’ve been able to...

Jan

Abbey-Landry School Case Study: Implementing a salad bar with the support of community partners

January 20, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

Abbey-Landry School is an elementary school (K-8) located in Memramcook, New Brunswick with a student population of approximately 400. Memramcook is a village with a population of about 5000. The school successfully implemented a salad bar with the support of several local organizations such as Semer dans la Vallée, Apprentis en Action and the réseau...

Dec

Webinar Recap: School Food Programming in Ontario in a time of COVID-19

December 18, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Tools/Toolkit, Videos, Webinar

Given all of the restrictions in schools due to COVID-19, school food champions in Ontario are doing what they can to figure out how to continue to advance food literacy programs. Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network hosted a lively webinar on November 17, 2020, to discuss School Food Programming in Ontario in a time of...

Jul

Agnes L Mathers’ Greenhouse Grows!

July 6, 2020F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Agnes L Mathers Elementary School, Sandspit, BC 2018-2019 (Grant Year 2) Agnes L Mathers Elementary School is in Sandspit British Columbia on Moresby Island, and is part of the archipelago called Haida Gwaii situated off the west coast of British Columbia. Our small student population enables students and teachers to spend lots of...

Jun

The Crunch Cafe Salad Bar at St Luke’s

June 26, 2020F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

St. Luke Catholic Elementary School Oakville, Ontario 2018-2019 (Grant Year 2) St. Luke School in Oakville has just finished its second full school year offering the Crunch Cafe Salad Bar to its students. First introduced in the fall of 2018, the Crunch Cafe provides students with a variety of fresh vegetables, fruit, protein and...

Jun

Loughborough Public School: Climate Action and Reconciliation through Food Literacy

June 22, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Stories from the field

Photos: At Loughborough Public School near Kingston, Ontario – a Legacy School identified by the Downie Wenjak Foundation for their work towards Truth and Reconciliation – students are learning how to grow and prepare their own food, while connecting with the land and their community. Through experiential learning, students are immersed in projects that bring...

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Feb

What is it like to eat at Canada’s Largest University?

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Reilley Plue The University of Toronto (UofT) is Canada’s largest university, with over 90,000 students across three campuses (Mississauga, St. George, and Scarborough). This means a lot of mouths to feed! The largest of the three campuses, St. George, caters to over 61,000 full-time students and is located downtown where there is no shortage...

Jan

Open Roads Eats Local

January 27, 2020F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Open Roads Public School, Dryden, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) The Open Roads salad bar cart is up and rolling again. This year we’re looking at using our “famous” homemade salad dressing as a fundraiser to support our goal to make the salad bar accessible to all. As of yet unnamed, our salad dressing is the...