Have Your School Join the Local Food Week Celebrations
Posted: May 25, 2016
Categories: Edible Education Network / Food in the News / GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Ontario / Schools
Ontario’s third annual Local Food Week is on the horizon – join us from June 6 – 12 to celebrate and promote the good things that are grown, made and harvested right here in Ontario!
Classrooms are the perfect place to get young people excited about local food and what it means to all of us. Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network is encouraging schools to visit our Edible Education page for a variety of resources — curriculum packages, guides, toolkits — that offer exciting ideas about how to bring Local Food Week to your school!
During Local Food Week, your school can join the Local Food Week Celebrations in a number of ways:
- Register yourself, your class, your school, or your whole school board with Foodland Ontario before or after you celebrate Ontario Local Food Week. Registration is important! We want to count the number of people who are celebrating Local Food Week in schools. And the best 5 entries on the site will win Ontario food prizes!
- Download fun curriculum linked class activities to use during Ontario Local Food Week
- Access local food week sticker templates, posters for printing, and social media twibbons and icons
- During Local Food Week share:
- Photos of your class activities (e.g. everyone sharing a snack)
- A favourite selfie of you growing, preparing, or eating your favourite local food
- What you love about local food OR what ‘local food’ means to you
- Tag social media posts using #LoveONTFood. You can also share with @loveONTfood.
Sample Tweets:- “Gr 4s tasting local strawberries for ON Local Food Week #loveONTfood”
- “We #loveONTfood! Thanks to our farmers for the delicious peas.”
- “Students (@nameofschool) planting swiss chard during Local Food Week. #loveONTfood”
- “It doesn’t get any fresher than our school garden. #loveONTfood”
So join in the #LoveONTFood fun! The @onEdibleEd is excited to see how your school celebrates #LocalFoodWeek this June!