Farm to School Evaluation Webinar Series

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Author: Sustain Ontario

Posted: April 7, 2022

Categories: Edible Education Network / Good Food Ideas for Kids / School Food News / Schools

Throughout March, Farm to Cafeteria Canada hosted an Evaluation Webinar Series to support farm to school folks with their evaluation work.

Recordings are now available of all three webinars, with speakers sharing their experiences with evaluation, and offering examples, tools and tips.

Webinar Recordings

Airin Stephens, Roots to Harvest | March 7, 2022 | Roots to Harvest offers young people the opportunity to engage meaningfully in the food system as growers, market gardeners and lifelong learners.

Andrew Fleet, Growing Chefs! Ontario | March 24, 2022 | Growing Chefs! Ontario unites chefs, growers, educators and community members in children’s food education projects.

Rebecca Tran, The Station Food Company | March 29, 2022 |The Station Food Company is located in Newport Station, Nova Scotia, and is a food production facility with a focus of getting more local food into schools and other institutions.

In this series, speakers shared the following:

  • What they set out to evaluate and why
  • What evaluation tools they used to measure the success of their programs
  • How they implemented the evaluation process and developed their tool(s)
  • Reflections on what successes they had and what and challenges they encountered
  • Reflections on how their evaluation findings were used to communicate with decision-makers