Farm to School Month 2016 – Stories from Ontario

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Author: Carolyn Webb

Posted: December 7, 2016

Categories: Edible Education Network / GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Members / News from Sustain Ontario / Schools

During National Farm to School Month (the month of October), Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) encouraged schools across the country to #thinkandeatlocalatschool by celebrating Farm to School (F2S) activities and then sharing their stories.  As an incentive to submit these stories, F2CC offered 3 $1,500 F2S grants, which would be drawn as prizes to those who registered their activities.

To start off the month Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network, in partnership with Ecosource, FoodShare and Roots to Harvest, put together a List of ways that schools could celebrate F2S.

During the month of October students across the province (and country!) enjoyed meals made with local ingredients, took part in local food classroom activities, cooked with local food and did some gardening, all while learning more about our local food system.

At the end of November the 3 grants were awarded to (click on the links to read their stories):

And, as for our partners, here are some of the tweets and pictures that were shared about their schools’ F2S month activities:

 

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Schools attended Ecosource's Harvest Celebration in the Iceland Teaching Garden where they planted garlic, toured the garden made fresh salsa with garden fresh herbs and tomatoes and participated in a raffle!

Schools attended Ecosource’s Harvest Celebration in the Iceland Teaching Garden where they planted garlic, toured the garden made fresh salsa with garden fresh herbs and tomatoes and participated in a raffle!

 

Westgate high school students learning and helping to make pizza dough using local Brule Creek flour to be served at the Get Fresh Cafe.

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