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Jun

Loughborough Public School: Climate Action and Reconciliation through Food Literacy

June 22, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Home Page Blog Feed, Indigenous, Stories from the field

Photos: At Loughborough Public School near Kingston, Ontario – a Legacy School identified by the Downie Wenjak Foundation for their work towards Truth and Reconciliation – students are learning how to grow and prepare their own food, while connecting with the land and their community. Through experiential learning, students are immersed in projects that bring...

Jun

Salad Bars Bring Local Food to School

June 16, 2020F2CC admin2022f2scdi - case studies, English, Farm to School, Featured Resources

In Quebec, the buzz surrounding local food is growing, not only among citizens and institutions, but also within the provincial government. The province has been promoting healthy, local and sustainable food in public institutions for several years. In 2018, nine Quebec schools received grants of up to $10,000 as part of the Farm to...

Jun

Chef Joshna Maharaj believes institutional food could be tasty and nourishing

June 2, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Healthcare, In the News

Photo: Joshna Maharaj’s book Take Back the Tray: Revolutionising Food in Hospitals, Schools and Institutions is a call-to-arms for chefs and administrators alike. (@joshnamaharaj/Twitter.com, ECW Press) Why hospital food is so bad and how we can make it better May 29, 2020 www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition Is there anything more unappetizing than hospital food? The very mention of it...

Apr

Farm-to-School Grant Funding Increases Children’s Access to Local Fruits and Vegetables in Oregon

April 17, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Evaluation, Farm to School, Publications

This report measures the reach of Oregon’s legislated farm-to-school grant program among school districts and children, particularly low income, and examines changes in local purchasineg, particularly fruit and vegetables, and the use of produce from school gardens in school meals. Read the full article Authors: Kristen C. Giombi, RTI International Anupama Joshi, National Farm to...

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Feb

What is it like to eat at Canada’s Largest University?

February 12, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to Campus, Stories from the field

By Reilley Plue The University of Toronto (UofT) is Canada’s largest university, with over 90,000 students across three campuses (Mississauga, St. George, and Scarborough). This means a lot of mouths to feed! The largest of the three campuses, St. George, caters to over 61,000 full-time students and is located downtown where there is no shortage...

Jan

Open Roads Eats Local

January 27, 2020F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Open Roads Public School, Dryden, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) The Open Roads salad bar cart is up and rolling again. This year we’re looking at using our “famous” homemade salad dressing as a fundraiser to support our goal to make the salad bar accessible to all. As of yet unnamed, our salad dressing is the...

Jan

Students at Ottawa Alternate Program Enjoy Salad Bar Learning Opportunities

January 16, 2020F2CC adminEnglish, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Elizabeth Wynwood Secondary School, Ottawa, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) There’s an old adage about how food brings people together. The students at Elizabeth Wyn Wood alternate program have experienced that first hand since we received a farm to school salad bar grant in 2018. Our school is a unique secondary alternate program for students...

Dec

LunchLAB at Lord Roberts

December 17, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, Farm to School, Stories from the field

2016-1017 (Year 1) Lord Roberts Elementary School is a diverse, urban school in the West End of the Downtown Vancouver Peninsula. With support from Farm to Cafeteria Canada and in partnership with Growing Chefs and Fresh Roots, two innovative charities that have been supporting schools to grow and cook in the Vancouver School Board and...

Nov

Recipe for a Halloween Harvest Lunch

November 8, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, Farm to School Month, Stories from the field

At Salt Spring Elementary (SSE), we celebrated National Farm-to-School Month with an all-school, community Harvest Lunch. Here’s how it happened. Last June kindergartners planted turban squash seeds donated by Salt Spring Seeds and over the summer, Camp Collosal participants watered and cared for the Hillside Garden, snacking on what was ripe and harvesting some of...

Oct

Serving up “fresh and delicious” with Farm to School at St Jean de Brebeuf

October 18, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

St Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School Hamilton, Ontario 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Our Farm to Cafeteria story started back in 2016 when Chef Luigi Chiarini from St Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario was able to take over operation of the school cafeteria and began planning for a cafeteria run by...