What happens when you give Ontario school kids the choice to eat healthier locally sourced food? This past December, 270 grade sixes from neighbouring elementary schools descended on Guelph’s St. James Catholic High School, home of a groundbreaking local-food-focused hospitality program, to sample snacks cooked up by the high school’s hospitality students. For a whole day, the halls of the school rang out with excited children visiting interactive displays about agriculture in Ontario and the Greenbelt, learning how locally sourced food benefits farmers and consumers alike, and eating their little hearts out. Promoting local food is something of a passion project for St. James, whose catchment straddles the urban neighbourhoods of Guelph and surrounding farmlands, many of which are contained within Ontario’s protected Greenbelt.
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Greenbelt Fund
By: Dick Snyder
January 18, 2015
