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Feb

Good Food Market for Ryerson University

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

By Kaitlin Rizarri Ryerson University (RU) Students’ Good Food Market was started by two key student leaders, Maria Jude and Kimberly Vaz. Both have made significant changes to Ryerson University’s state of student food insecurity. Kimberly ran a referendum so that the Good Food Centre, the school’s food bank, could receive guaranteed funding. Maria launched...

Feb

Where do we go from here? A look at food at Humber College

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

Photo: Robin picking tea in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, wearing a hat with an attached mesh bag that holds the plucked tea. By Robin Sagi, Good Food Challenge Coordinator at Humber Over $300 million is spent by educational institutions on food annually in Canada. Meal Exchange, a Canadian charity, is working to help students and...

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...

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...

Oct

Healthy People, Healthy Planet Resource List

October 1, 2019F2CC adminFeatured Resources, Home Page Blog Feed

Photo: Salt Spring Elementary, Salt Spring, BC The Farm to School approach (F2S) aims to transform food systems by bringing more healthy, local and sustainable food to the minds and plates of students. F2S is aligned with several UN Sustainable Development Goals, the new Canada’s Food Guide recommendations and the vision for a Food Policy for Canada. In light of its...

Sep

Educate young people about the need for healthy food through the salad bar

September 9, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Waterloo Elementary School, Waterloo, Québec 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Since 2016, Waterloo Elementary School in Montérégie has been offering its students and staff the opportunity to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day. What began as a simple experiment by cafeteria manager Jenny Wheeler quickly turned into a well-stocked, healthy salad bar. “After being inspired...

Sep

Salad Bar Schools Receive Local Food Recognition in Quebec!

September 4, 2019F2CC adminEnglish, Farm to School, In the News, Stories from the field

Photo: Équiterre Congratulations to our 9 salad bar grantees in Quebec, who were recently recognized by Aliments du Quebec (Quebec Products on the Menu). This initiative recognizes schools for procuring local food from within the province of Quebec. In order to be considered “local” food, and to be eligible for recognition, foods served must be comprised of at least 85% Quebec...

Aug

Salad Days at MGCI

August 27, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute (Secondary), Toronto, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Our journey began in 2017 with a casual conversation: a student garden would support our greenhouse activities, and make a great connection for our hospitality program… and with that we should have a student salad bar! Our overall vision was to foster a culture of local...

Lambton-Kent Composite School, Dresden, ON

Aug

Red Rocket Salad Bar becomes a ‘new tradition’ at Lambton-Kent Composite

August 1, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Lambton-Kent Composite School, Dresden, ON 2018-2019 (Grant Year 1) Lambton-Kent Composite School is located in the historical town of Dresden, Ontario, a small community in Southwestern Ontario. Situated on a treed campus, Lambton-Kent Composite School is home to approximately 295 students and staff. We are an agricultural community and many of our students are connected...

Jul

Elementary and High School Work Together for Salad Bar Success!

July 26, 2019F2CC adminCanada Digs In, English, F2S Grants, Farm to School, Stories from the field

Sydenham High School, Sydenham, ON 2018-2019 (Additional Story) Sydenham High School is in a rural setting yet holds about 700 students. It was very fortunate to receive a beautiful new kitchen as part of a renovation a few years ago. In collaboration with our neighbouring elementary school, Loughborough, we have been helping to provide local...