Indigenous School Food Circle webinar: Growing Food on the Land in Indigenous School Communities
Posted: April 20, 2023
Categories: Edible Education Network / Events / GoodFoodBites / Schools
The Indigenous School Food Circle is hosting an upcoming webinar, Growing Food on the Land in Indigenous School Communities, on Tuesday, May 2, at 1 p.m. ET, to discuss how school food programs are engaging their students in food forests and growing food on the land.
The webinar speakers will share how they’ve established their programs, what they set out to do, how the program has supported their students and their broader community, and tips for involving students and schools in growing food.
The following speakers will share their experiences:
- Jennifer Cameron & Kristen Schott, Beardys Okemasis First Nation
- Lisa Troy, Kamloops food policy council
- Tim Tomczynski, Hamlet of Tulita NWT
The event will take the format of a 1.5 hour conversation among the panelists, with time for questions from participants and discussion. The conversation will be recorded and publicly shared afterwards.
The Indigenous School Food Circle is an initiative co-hosted by the Coalition for Healthy School Food, Canadian Feed the Children and Farm to Cafeteria Canada that has been established to inform advocacy for funding for school food programs in Indigenous communities and for Indigenous students, and to support replication, networking and sharing of best practices among those who are coordinating and supporting school food programs in Indigenous communities and for Indigenous students.