Birch Narrows Dene Community School, Turnor Lake, SK Plant a Seed and See What Grows Foundation Grant, 2024 Our school, a proud First Nations community located in northwestern Saskatchewan, serves 240 students ranging from Head-start/Nursery to Grade 12. This year, we embarked on an exciting project that brought our students and staff together: building and...Read More

Farm to Cafeteria Canada is offering grants in the range of $500 – $20,000 to Indigenous school communities in partnership with Whole Kids, the Public Health Agency of Canada and regional partners. We are very grateful to our Circle of Advisors for their support in developing this grant opportunity. These Indigenous Foodways in Schools Grants will provide funding for...Read More

Woodlands Secondary School, Nanaimo BC Grant term 2022-2024 In 2022, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, embarked on the journey of starting a school farm!  With a vision to create a hands-on garden classroom and support food nutrition at schools across the district, we transformed part of a grass field at Woodlands Secondary School into a market...Read More

Simon Jacob Memorial Education Centre, Webequie, ON Grant term 2022-2024 The Simon Jacob Memorial Education Centre in rural Webequie, Ontario, Canada, is home to 250 students from kindergarten to grade 12. Our school has been running the Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) program for the past two years, and it has had a significant impact...Read More

John J Sark Memorial Elementary School, Lennox Island First Nation, PEI Grant term, 2023-2024 We had two main goals with this grant money. Our first was to give students an opportunity to experience a variety of food sources that our local lands and waters provide. The second was to  teach a variety of ways of...Read More

Kâpapâmachakwêw – Wandering spirit school, Toronto, ON Grant term 2022-2024 Kâpapâmachakwêw – Wandering Spirit School is an Indigenous cultural survival school in the heart of Toronto’s east end. KWSS serves just over 120 students that range from k-12. Their land-based learning program was started in September 2022 and centres itself on Indigenous food sovereignty, traditional...Read More

This guide was produced by the Feed BC Program to support public institutions to incorporate Indigenous foods in a good way. It contains valuable learnings that can be applied in K-12 schools in BC and across the country.   We are raising our hands for this guide in relationship building, reciprocity, and humility in acknowledging where...Read More

The School Food Development Project (SFDP), hosted by a team out of the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, explored the intersection of food and culture in schools. The goal was to centre First Nations and Métis students, their families and their communities (both on and off reserve) in...Read More

Beaver Brae Public School, Kenora, ON Grant term, 2023-2024 The Four Directions Program at Beaver Brae Secondary School in Kenora Ontario has been the source of food for students in high school for the last few years. With a decrease to lunch programs within high schools, students’ only other option for food is the cafeteria....Read More