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Feb

Meet Sanjana – Student Champion of Good Food Access at Lakehead University

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

Photo Credit: Amy Hadley, CBC By Sanjana Sharma My name is Sanjana and I’m a second-year Computer Science student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. I found my passion for food when I started working on Meal Exchange’s Students Feeding Change project on my campus earlier this year, and understood that not having access to...

Feb

Where do we go from here? A look at food at Humber College

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

Photo: Robin picking tea in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, wearing a hat with an attached mesh bag that holds the plucked tea. By Robin Sagi, Good Food Challenge Coordinator at Humber Over $300 million is spent by educational institutions on food annually in Canada. Meal Exchange, a Canadian charity, is working to help students and...

Feb

Building a healthy & inclusive food culture at McGill University

February 7, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By John Vu Amongst the many different definitions and interpretations of sustainability, there is a need for a standardized metric that all post-secondary campuses can follow. The Good Food Challenge (GFC) provides a rigorous national standard for Good Food (measured by the Good Food Calculator), captures best practices in campus food procurement, and establishes a...

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...

Jan

Students at Ottawa Alternate Program Enjoy Salad Bar Learning Opportunities

January 16, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Elizabeth Wynwood Secondary School, Ottawa, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) There’s an old adage about how food brings people together. The students at Elizabeth Wyn Wood alternate program have experienced that first hand since we received a farm to school salad bar grant in 2018. Our school is a unique secondary alternate program for students...

Dec

LunchLAB at Lord Roberts

December 17, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

2016-1017 (Year 1) Lord Roberts Elementary School is a diverse, urban school in the West End of the Downtown Vancouver Peninsula. With support from Farm to Cafeteria Canada and in partnership with Growing Chefs and Fresh Roots, two innovative charities that have been supporting schools to grow and cook in the Vancouver School Board and...

Dec

Walter E. Harris Public School Students are Growing Food!

December 2, 2019F2CC adminUncategorized

Walter E. Harris Public School, Oshawa, ON Last year, our school received a seed grant of $1,500 from Farm to Cafeteria Canada. Immediately, this money was put to good use, as our Garden Club and Grade 3 students began growing sprouts for consumption during the cold winter months. With this infusion of cash, we bought...

Nov

Recipe for a Halloween Harvest Lunch

November 8, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Farm to School Month, Stories from the field

At Salt Spring Elementary (SSE), we celebrated National Farm-to-School Month with an all-school, community Harvest Lunch. Here’s how it happened. Last June kindergartners planted turban squash seeds donated by Salt Spring Seeds and over the summer, Camp Collosal participants watered and cared for the Hillside Garden, snacking on what was ripe and harvesting some of...

Oct

Serving up “fresh and delicious” with Farm to School at St Jean de Brebeuf

October 18, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

St Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School Hamilton, Ontario 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Our Farm to Cafeteria story started back in 2016 when Chef Luigi Chiarini from St Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario was able to take over operation of the school cafeteria and began planning for a cafeteria run by...

Sep

Educate young people about the need for healthy food through the salad bar

September 9, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Waterloo Elementary School, Waterloo, Québec 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Since 2016, Waterloo Elementary School in Montérégie has been offering its students and staff the opportunity to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day. What began as a simple experiment by cafeteria manager Jenny Wheeler quickly turned into a well-stocked, healthy salad bar. “After being inspired...