Take a deeper look at the food justice movement through FoodShare’s School Grown program — a schoolyard farming project that employs students in running urban market gardens, while transforming the way young people think about food.   Published on Jan 19, 2015 Irina Grozavescu   [youtube height=”400″ width=”700″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxT-s2loDEM[/youtube]Read More

Support the School Grown program by contributing to our IndieGoGo crowd funding campaign in May 2014. Details: www.foodshare.net   Published on Oct 16, 2013 FoodShare TorontoRead More

Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society is an enterprising non-profit. They grow organic produce in market gardens in Vancouver, a few of which are half-acre sites located at local schools. They are expanding their model of working with institutions to transform those organizations’ underutilized grounds into community-engaged spaces for growing food and educating the public. Published...Read More

Food For Thought is a great example of how many of the food-related programs commonly found in Vancouver’s schools- from gardening, to cooking, to healthy eating- can be combined to give students a garden-to-plate look at an essential topic.   Published on Jan 9, 2013 Vancouver School BoardRead More

This new report from New Brunswick’s Ministry of Healthy Inclusive Communities highlights a dozen initiatives in schools, campuses, hospitals and First Nations working hard to that are getting more fresh healthy local foods into the minds and mouths of students and patients. Read the full report here.Read More

Photo: Roseville Public School students Morgan Story, 11, Murtada Mousa, 12, Noah Scott, 11, and Jessica Meleg, 11, display seedlings that will be planted in a community garden next month. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star) When the weather warms up and planting season arrives, virtually all of the school’s 325 students will be involved in transforming part...Read More

The Meal Exchange believes that post-secondary campuses are an ideal leverage point for building local food systems, and that student leaders have the power to drive this change. Their new report Student leadership for local food on Ontario’s campuses 2013 – 2105  features stories from Meal Exchange’s work over the past 18 months with the University of Waterloo,...Read More

When students and administrators join resources to improve the food on campus, cafeteria is no longer a dirty word. It’s steak week at the Creelman Marketplace, a food-court style of cafeteria at the University of Guelph. The chef at the grill station is sizzling up steak fajitas to order for a long lineup. The featured...Read More

An East Vancouver high school has changed the way students learn by starting up its own working schoolyard farm. It’s the first of its kind in Canada. The 1,000 square metres of garden space at Vancouver Technical secondary school and the weekly market stand opened May 28 to sell the fresh produce, with funds going...Read More

Register your school to participate the nation’s Great Big Crunch Event on March 12, 2015. The Great Big Crunch, hosted by Foodshare Toronto,  is a special day of good food education, ending with a massive, synchronized bite into a crunchy apple to celebrate.    The 2015 Great Big Crunch will be taking place on Thursday,...Read More