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Jul

Deep roots feed Emily Doyle’s commitment to build a better future for her island home

July 28, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Engaging Volunteers, Resource Centre: Inspiring Stories

Jul

New Research: Scaling up ‘Local’ in School Food Programs

July 14, 2023Jesse VeenstraHome Page Blog Feed, Policy, Publications

Scaling up ‘Local’ in School Food Programs: exploring intermediated farm-to-school procurement in Ontario New research is now available from F2CC Advisory Council Member, Dr. Amberley Ruetz. Published by the Journal of Rural and Community Development, this article is part of Dr. Ruetz’s PhD dissertation on farm to school procurement in Ontario. Access the full open-access...

Jun

Shared Learning Resources for F2CC Team & Partners

June 21, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Indigenous Communities

Jun

Webinar Recording: Growing Food on the Land in Indigenous School Communities

June 13, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Are you interested in learning how school food programs are engaging their students in food forests and growing food on the land? Check out this recording from the Indigenous School Food Circle’s May 2nd webinar: In this webinar, speakers shared how they established their programs, what they set out to do, how the program has...

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...

Mar

Food is Science: a new resource to support science and technology curriculum

March 29, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed, Resource Centre: Curriculum

Contratulations to our partners at Sustain Ontario on the launch of their new curriculum resource: Food is Science! Sustain Ontario is thrilled to share their new Food is Science website, built to support educators in teaching the new food literacy expectations in Ontario’s Science and Technology curriculum. The site includes lesson plans, learning videos, related...

Mar

Nominate a school food champion in your community!

March 21, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Who is a school food champion? Anyone can be a school food champion! School food champions look different in all communities but they have one thing in common: a passion for connecting students to healthy food and the people and systems that produce it. To honour school food champions across Canada, we’re launching “Food Connects...

Feb

Seniors & Students Growing Together: an Intergenerational Garden Case Study

February 16, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

In Maple Ridge, British Columbia, you’ll find an Intergenerational Garden that has been nourishing its community for almost 10 years. Through the garden project, young students, seniors and teachers are growing and learning together. Seniors are passing down important knowledge, and young people are learning how to grow food and care for a garden. The...

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...

Jan

Residents of the Bow Valley Gather for Local School Food!

January 10, 2023F2CC adminHome Page Blog Feed

Inspired by the farm to school Learning Circle model, in March of 2022, the Let’s Gather! event hosted in Canmore, AB encouraged community members in the Bow Valley to connect and spark dialogue around local and resilient food systems by exploring this theme through the lens of school food. This post shares what inspired the...