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St Dominic Elementary School, Oakville, ON

Jun

St. Dominic Oakville Sees Double Carts in 2018!

June 28, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

St Dominic Elementary School, Oakville, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) After a successful first year with our salad bar, we were confident that the St. Dominic school community would once again be supportive of our Farm to Cafeteria salad lunch program for year #2 but we had no idea HOW supportive! Our first 8-week term went...

Jun

Local Food Literacy in Schools: Q&A from Ontario

June 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Photo: Burlington Public Library, “Edible Library” In December 2017 Sustain Ontario released its Local Food Literacy in Schools: Frequently Asked Questions Guide to share ideas and useful resources with school champions who are bringing local food literacy into their classrooms. Since the release of the guide we have shared each of the 10 FAQs as a...

Jun

Huband Park Elementary’s Salad Bar

June 4, 2018Farm to School Grant RecipientCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field, Videos

Huband Park Elementary School, Courtenay BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Huband Park Elementary School in Courtenay BC is a rural school in a beautiful neighbourhood about 10 minutes north of town. Courtenay is a mid size city ½ way up Vancouver Island about 3 hours north of Victoria. Our school has 375 students in 17 divisions...

May

Haida Gwaii Students Nourished with Food from the Land and Sea

May 10, 2018F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School

Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay Secondary School, Masset BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) I remember the first salad bar many years ago at Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay (GTNS), a high school on the north end of Haida Gwaii. When faced with the salad bar over flowing fruit and vegetables, students filled their plates with ranch salad dressing and bacon...

May

Serving up Local

May 9, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Publications, Stories from the field

Manual for Increasing Local Foods in Long-Term Care This manual is a collection of good practices resulting from the experience of nine long-term care (LTC) homes in three regions in the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario as part of the Serving Up Local project from May 2016 to January 2018. It is designed to provide resources and...

Apr

Harvesting Success with Fellowes Fresh Food Project

April 4, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo:On March 27 at the RCDSB meeting, students and faculty from Fellowes High School discussed the success of their Fellowes Fresh Food Project. Pictured here (from left) are Mckenna Boland, Fresh Food Project co-organizer Heather Witt, Tracy Estabrooks, co-organizer Sandi Theilheimer, Lydia Neigel, Christina Gravelle-St.Pierre, Hailey Hartwig, and school board trustee Leo Boland. Fellowes High...

Mar

Nourish Webinar: Collaborative Projects Public Kickoff

March 21, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Videos, Webinar

Are you interested by the role that better food can play in delivering better health care? The Nourish leadership program has kicked off 5 collaborative projects and is looking for your engagement. Each team approaches a different dimension of the disconnect between food in health care, for example: better understanding the patient experience of food...

Mar

Community Forums Seek to Connect People with Food

March 16, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

AUNDECK OMNI KANING––Supporters of Manitoulin’s local food movement, both existing and newbies, gathered at the Four Directions Complex in Aundeck Omni Kaning on March 7 for the second of four Cultivating Food Sovereignty community forums. The forums are intended to provide a space for knowledge-sharing and collaboration. “These community forums are a part of the...

Mar

Women Who Feed the Islands

March 12, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Lynda Dixon started growing organic, islands-grown produce at Maude Island Farm in 1994. (Jason Shafto/Love Haida Gwaii) Celebrating women’s efforts as foragers, farmers, and pillars of food security on Haida Gwaii How are women working to harvest local foods, feed community, and promote food security on Haida Gwaii – one of the most remote island...

Mar

Growing Closer to Home

March 9, 2018F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Photo: From left, Toby Rowe and Tim Walsh shovel compost at the community garden. Courtesy of: Chris Hammond Memorial’s community garden: Sustainability from the ground up Historically, Newfoundland and Labrador’s geographic isolation meant the residents of this province had no choice but to grow and gather their fresh food. Not anymore. Today, the vast majority...