The Farm to School Salad Bar is a new and innovative initiative in British Columbia (BC) designed to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables amongst students and raise awareness of the health benefits of doing so. Although the concept of farm to school appears simple, it has multiple planning-related objectives including adopting a comprehensive...Read More
In this Issue: 2015: A year of huge leaps! Looking ahead: 2016 Year of the Monkey National Funding Opportunities New Leadership Team Upcoming EventsRead More
Tastebuds’ Edible Education Guide is for administrators, teachers and staff to have a one-stop shop for food literacy programming and resources that is available for their school, classroom or after-school program. Tastebuds’ Edible Education Guide offers food literacy programs that address curriculum requirements to all Hamilton schools, as well as resources around school gardens, nutrition...Read More
Take the numbers six and 16, put them together and you have the formula for improving youth nutrition through education, improved food skills and better understanding of local food, one Ontario farm and food organization says. Six by Sixteen is an initiative of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) and is part of the comprehensive...Read More
Schools, post-secondary, healthcare institutions and Crown corporations collectively purchase millions of dollars’ worth of food annually, yet little is known around how much local food has been purchased. At the same time, their large purchasing power and role as public facilities put institutions in a unique position to be positive drivers for growing our local...Read More
When REAP’s Farm to School program provides a healthy snack, students not only receive a serving of fruits or vegetables but also an information sheet about the snack. This is because REAP’s Farm to Food program is as much about teaching students healthy, local food in schools as it is about feeding them. The Farm...Read More
From coast to coast, kindergarteners as young as age 5 to grade 12 high school students in both urban and rural areas across Canada came together to celebrate Farm to School Month in October 2015. It was Canada’s second annual Farm to School Month campaign and more than 3300 children and youths took part in...Read More
Newfoundland, a province known as The Rock, is not known for its farmland but is known for its culinary creativity and for making the most of resources on the edge of the Atlantic. When the School Lunch Association, a charitable school food service provider on the Avalon Peninsula, decided to join the local food movement,...Read More
At Brant-Argyle School in Argyle, Man., the chicken club is not a tasty sandwich — it’s a program that teaches kids about raising chickens. The school has received a conditional use variance that allows children to keep chickens in an outdoor coop in the schoolyard in the hamlet of Argyle, 40 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Grade 5 student...Read More
Food First NL, in partnership with the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Health Association (NLPHA), is incredibly excited to share the release of our discussion paper, Everybody Eats. This paper is the first step in a process to develop a provincial road-map for the future of food security in Newfoundland & Labrador. Accompanying this discussion paper is a discussion guide for...Read More
