Ecole Secondaire Macdonald Cartier, Sudbury,ON 2017-18 – (Year 2) Salad! Salad! Salad! Once again students and teachers at École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier are lining up for salad bar lunches every week. Many positive comments have been heard among the 500 students about the variety of vegetables and other foods being offered in the salad bar. This...Read More

 Reynolds Secondary School, Victoria, BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) 1200 students Program Coordinator: Teacher, Heather Coey The first year of our salad program began in September 2010 after starting a food garden in our inner courtyard in 2008 in Victoria BC, Canada. The garden space was a diamond in the rough and has now flourished into...Read More

Ecole Secondaire Hanmer, Hamner, ON 2017-2018 (Year 2) We owe much of the success of our Farm 2 School project to a very dedicated and hard working senior, M. Henri Dufresne. M. Henri is of the young age of 89 years old and lives near Ecole secondaire Hanmer, a small high school of 180 students....Read More

14 SCHOOLS, GARDENS, AND SALAD BARS AND A 4,000 KM TRIP Here in British Columbia, the month of May consisted of our two regional animators travelling the province to visit 14 of the 29 schools in BC that received a Farm to School (F2S) Salad Bar grant in 2016. With all of the schools now...Read More

Huband Park Elementary School, Courtenay BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) Huband Park Elementary School in Courtenay BC is a rural school in a beautiful neighbourhood about 10 minutes north of town. Courtenay is a mid size city ½ way up Vancouver Island about 3 hours north of Victoria. Our school has 375 students in 17 divisions...Read More

2017-2018 (Year 2) Nobel Public School, Nobel, ON A little about our location… We acknowledge the traditional territories of Henvey Inlet First Nation, Magnetewan First Nation, Wasauksing First Nation, Shawanaga First Nation and Moose Deer Point First Nation that we are working and living upon. These territories are a part of the Robinson Huron Treaty...Read More

PRINCE GEORGE – For many, people growing their own food it sometimes helps them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.  There’re just over 100 students that attend Ecole Franco-Nord. And each week some students have the opportunity to taste foods grown locally and from a school garden.  With support from the Farm to Cafeteria...Read More

Photo: Burrows Hall Junior Public School students Leah Dunwoody, left, and Gayathiri Balakrishnan plant garden boxes. | NAOMI GARNEAU “Let us eat healthy food!” chants a group of Scarborough elementary school students, while hoisting a sign that uses “lettuce” as a clever twist on the slogan. The students from Burrows Hall Junior Public School gathered outside...Read More

2017-2018 (Year 2) Regency Acres P.S., Aurora, Ontario – York Region District School Board Regency Acres is a small school of 320 students. As we approach the end of year 2 of our grant, there is much to celebrate. This past school year, our school offered 20 salad days and served almost 2000 salads! This means...Read More

Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay Secondary School, Masset BC 2017-2018 (Year 2) I remember the first salad bar many years ago at Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay (GTNS), a high school on the north end of Haida Gwaii. When faced with the salad bar over flowing fruit and vegetables, students filled their plates with ranch salad dressing and bacon...Read More