West Colchester Consolidated School, Bass River, NS Plant a Seed and See What Grows Foundation Grant, 2024 West Colchester Consolidated School, nestled in Bass River, Nova Scotia, serves 141 students from Primary to Grade 9. Our rural community, surrounded by forests and fields, faces unique challenges such as food insecurity and limited access to local...Read More

In April 2024, the Government of Canada announced a one-billion-dollar commitment over five years for the development of a national school food program. In June 2024, Employment and Social Development Canada followed that up by releasing a national school food policy that lays out the federal government’s long-term vision for school food and will act...Read More

Ottawa Technical Secondary School, Ottawa, ON Grant term 2022-2024 Our Farm to Cafeteria program has been a resounding success and we are so grateful for the support.  Ottawa Technical Secondary School serves a diverse student population, many of whom live with food insecurity and in living situations that don’t enable a connection to the land...Read More

Learn about: The value of meaningful youth engagement and participation; Strategies for youth engagement in program design and implementation; A framework to support student engagement; and Ideas, challenges, and opportunities for engaging students in schools This webinar and its resources ar part of a series hosted in spring 2024 by the Public Health Assocation onf...Read More

Birchmount School, Moncton, NB Grant term 2022-2024 Birchmount School shares their school food journey with the Farm to School Canada Grants they received in 2022.  Birchmount School in Moncton, New Brunswick was paid a visit in 2022 by CTV News where they shared their excitement and future plans around their new 2022 Farm to School...Read More

Are you interested in learning how school food programs are engaging their students in food forests and growing food on the land? Check out this recording from the Indigenous School Food Circle’s May 2nd webinar: In this webinar, speakers shared how they established their programs, what they set out to do, how the program has...Read More

Photo: Paul Lavoie Two schools in Alberta’s Peace Region are benefiting from a pilot project to establish and grow farm to school in the region in the 2022/23 school year. This project is a collaboration between Alberta Food Matters and Alberta Public Health Association, in partnership with the Public Health Association of BC, the Rural...Read More

Alberta is a proud agricultural province, with the sector playing an important role in its economy. Farm to school activities provide an opportunity for students in Alberta – and across Canada – to access healthy, local food at school, make connections to the people in their community who grow and produce food, and learn about...Read More