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Sep

New School Year, New Grants!

September 11, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Dig in to the new school year by applying for a Seed Grant! In honour of back to school, we’re excited to announce a NEW stream of school grants available for the 2023/24 school year. Valued at up to $3,000 each and designed to be flexible, the Dig In! Seed Grants are open to K-12...

Jan

Coming soon: Garden Grants!

January 17, 2023Jesse VeenstraHome Page Blog Feed

Mark your calendar: apply for a Garden Grant starting February 1st! Garden Grants are a great way to kick-start or boost edible education in school communities! Beginning February 1st, our partners at Whole Kids Foundation will be accepting applications for their 2023 Garden Grant Program. These grants support edible education spaces that serve K-12 students...

Aug

Welcome to our 2022 Farm to School Canada Grant Recipients!

August 30, 2022F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

May

Kings County Academy’s Transition from a Contracted Food Service Provider to a PTA-Run Cafeteria

May 30, 2022F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, Home Page Blog Feed

Kings County Academy (KCA) is a pre-primary to grade 8 school located in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with an early French Immersion stream. KCA has a strong partnership with the municipal Parks and Recreation Department and a long history of a vibrant and dedicated Parent Teacher Association (PTA). The school has an enrollment of 630 students...

Apr

École St Denis Case Study: Involving Students in Farm to School

April 19, 2021F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed

The salad bar at École Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (Québec) École Saint-Denis is an elementary school located in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Montérégie, Quebec and it received a Farm to School Salad Bar grant in 2018. The school has had a lot of success involving its students in the operation of the salad bar and integrating it into the curriculum....

Mar

Webinar Recap: The Recipe to Local Sourcing in Schools

March 5, 2021F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Videos, Webinar

Photo credit: Équiterre Équiterre, the provincial coordinator of the Farm to School program in Quebec, mobilizes school communities to adopt best practices that promote sustainable (healthy, local and eco-responsible) food and to set targets for purchasing Quebec food. During their February 24, 2021 webinar, Équiterre’s three facilitators presented different strategies for starting and sustaining local...

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...

Dec

SOYL: Empowering Youth to Grow Food and Themselves

December 6, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

This year, 5000 children and youth have grown good food AND themselves in Fresh Roots programs like SOYL, their youth-empowerment program. They are trying to raise $10,000 by December 31, 2018 to support even more young people, so please donate now at http://freshroots.ca/donate! Filmed and edited by Farzine Macrae of Macrae Multimedia (http://macraemultimedia.ca) From Fresh...

Oct

Schools Take Root Supplies Schools with Organic Veggie Baskets

October 9, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Farm to School Month, Farms, Stories from the field

More than 20 local farms will supply 74 schools with organic baskets this fall! The Schools Take Root project aims to create awareness about local, organic food in Quebec schools by implementing the sale of organic vegetable baskets grown by local farmers as a fundraising event. This helps get children and their families interested in...

Jul

Winlaw School Plants for Bees and Borscht

July 23, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Winlaw Elementary School, Winlaw, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Winlaw is a small town in the middle of the Slocan Valley in B.C.’s West Kootenay region. As part of our Farm to School program, we have had our school garden for two years. This fall, we were excited to see what grew over the summer. We...