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
It’s lunchtime in a Toronto high school and chef Jesus Gomez awaits with vegetables aplenty. On today’s menu at the Good Food Café: baked chicken drumsticks, vegetable beef tacos, green bean-red pepper salad, squash-beet salad, broccoli-carrot-cabbage slaw, baked potato wedges, vegetable pizza, green salad and fruit cups. It’s a good-looking spread. There’s choice, but not...Read More
Photo: The Durham District School Board is now buying six items for its high school cafeterias from Ontario farms, part of the board’s Cafeteria Connects Project. Latha Raguram prepared some fresh salads for lunch in the cafeteria at Sinclair Secondary School. February 18, 2015. Ron Pietroniro / Metroland DURHAM — When local students grab a container of veggies...Read More
This curriculum guide offers a rich set of resources to open meaningful conversations with secondary students about our local food system, and to prepare them to better understand the complexities of our food choices. Brimming with big ideas, these 15 lesson plans contain clear curriculum connections, step by step instructions for lesson preparation and delivery,...Read More
Photo: Third graders at Zach Elementary School in Fort Collins pick and choose fruits and vegetables from a produce bar. – Coloradoan library. A Colorado bill to spend about $5 million to put more local produce in school cafeterias passed its first testWednesday at the Legislature. But the measure passed by a single vote after complaints...Read More
When children go to school, they learn to read and write so they can get a good job or go to college. But what most don’t learn in school today is how to produce their own food. A bill that would help students learn to feed themselves in a sustainable way passed through the Senate...Read More
