OverviewThe Edible Education CoP is no longer active, but you can still access valuable past meeting recordings below. For additional materials and information, visit our Resource Centre.
Have a question? Email us at
grants@farmtocafeteriacanada.com
You can view our full Terms of Reference here. These Terms were developed by a working group of Canada Digs In! Partners and other school food practitioners who advised on the creation of the CoP. The Terms of Reference is a living document that will continue to evolve with the CoP.
Dr. Gillian Judson (imaginED) and Megan Sandham introduced a new resource for imaginative, place-centered and Indigenous education, called “Walking Forward: Learning from Place”. This resource applies an Indigenous lens to The Walking Curriculum (TWC), reframing the first 30 walks in TWC in ways that connect to the nine First Peoples’ Principles of Learning in the BC curriculum.
The Edible Education Community of Practice is hosting an upcoming webinar for those of you who are looking for ideas on how to appropriately incorporate Indigenous plants and ways of knowing into your teaching gardens. We’re pleased to announce two guest speakers: Lori Snyder, a Métis herbalist and descendant from the Powhatan, Dakota, T’suu tina, Nakota, Cree, Nipissing, Dene and Anishinaabe peoples, mixed with French and Celtic ancestry, will be joining us from where she resides as a visitor on the land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC) where she works with students from K-12, and Tristan Landry, of Acadian and French (France) descent will be joining us from the land of the W8banaki, the Ndakina. K’wlipaï8ba W8banakiak wdakiw8k (Sherbrooke, QC) to share his experiences working in the historical garden of the university. The presentations will be in both English and French and simultaneous translation will be offered. After the presentations, we will host breakout sessions for participants to connect and share ideas with each other.
Webinar RecapWe encourage you to mark Tuesday November 16th at 12:30 PST / 3:30 EST / 4:30 AST on your calendars for this Community of Practice conversation on land-based learning where we will hold small group discussions to reflect on and discuss what land-based learning can look like in our own edible education practices. This hour and a half-long conversation will let participants speak to any points that resonated with them in the recorded conversation and to share their own ideas and challenges regarding this approach to education.
Small group check-ins
Presentations from edible educators
Breakout groups with colleagues across Canada
Program activity ideas for National Indigenous History Month (June)
Updates on this Community of Practice
Since the launch of the Farm to School Canada Digs In! initiative in 2016, F2CC has been initiating and growing regional Farm to School communities of practice to support grant recipients and other school communities who are working to connect students to healthy, local and sustainable food at school.
In summer 2020, a few members of the Coalition for Healthy School Food came together to discuss the need for a space where school food practitioners from across the country could connect, share resources, and support each other with regards to food literacy and edible education efforts. Similar conversations were happening here at Farm to Cafeteria Canada, so we took the opportunity to collaborate and develop an expanded, national community of practice as part of Canada Digs In!
Farm to Cafeteria Canada was pleased to host this Edible Education Community of Practice in collaboration with the Coalition for Healthy School Food and our shared regional partners.
The development of the Edible Education CoP is part of Farm to School: Canada Digs In!
A multi-sectoral chronic disease prevention partnership.
In addition to our Canada Digs In! partners, we would like to thank the following organizations
for their active involvement and advise the formation of this CoP:
