Ontario Edible Education Network
Check out the full Ontario Edible Education Network website at sustainontario.com/work/edible-education!
Across Ontario people are doing great work to connect children and youth with good food*. The Ontario Edible Education Network has been established to bring these groups together to share resources, ideas, and experience, to work together on advocacy, and to make it easier for people across Ontario to get children and youth eating, growing, cooking, celebrating, and learning about healthy, local and sustainably produced food.
Check out some exciting stories about the spaces, places and ideas across the province that are changing what kids eat.
Resources of interest:
For useful resources relating to kids and good food, explore the Sustain Ontario Greenhouse
(To search food related lessons plans linked to the Ontario curriculum click on the “Food Literacy” initiative and then select “hands on”)- Check out our Local Food Literacy in Ontario Schools webinar recordings and tipsheet series (2016/17)
- Explore Granting Programs that may be of interest
- Access our Past Newsletters
- Check out Policy Position Papers including submissions to government consultations
- Review Impacts of Good Food Education – the Evidence
More about the Ontario Edible Education Network:
Learn about our National Partners and access resources on their sites:
Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) is a pan-Canadian organization whose vision is “vibrant and sustainable regional food systems that support the health of people place and planet.” F2CC works with partners across Canada, including Sustain Ontario, to educate, build capacity, strengthen partnerships, and influence policy to bring local, healthy, and sustainable foods into all public institutions.
- Sustain Ontario has partnered with F2CC to advance farm to school in Ontario through the Farm to School: Canada Digs In! project, which has included shared communications, support and training for the F2S salad bar grantees in Ontario, and support for the implementation and evaluation of F2S activity in the province.
- Check out exciting stories from Ontario’s Farm to School Salad Bar Grantees.
The Coalition for Healthy School Food is a network of over 100 organizations from across Canada advocating for a national school food program. (The network is coordinated by Food Secure Canada). The Coalition is seeking an investment by the federal government in a cost-shared Universal Healthy School Food Program that will enable all students in Canada to have access to healthy meals at school every day.
- Check out News about the Coalition’s activities
- Find out how to Take Action
To Get Involved or to Learn More about the Ontario Edible Education Network:
- Join our Facebook Group
- Connect with us on Twitter
- Subscribe to our E-News
- Contact Carolyn Webb, Network Coordinator, at cwebb@sustainontario.ca
Papers developed and discussed at Bring Food Home 2017:
- An Introduction to Networks – Originally Developed as a Background Paper for the Working Session at Bring Food Home 2017
- From Evaluation to Advocacy: Making the Case for Good Food Programs for Children and Youth
- Working with School Boards to Advance Good Food in Schools
* Good food is nourishing and is grown, processed and prepared in a way that respects producers, consumers, communities and the earth. The concept of “good food” recognizes that food passes through a food system (from seed to plate and back to the earth) that involves multiple relationships and interactions between people, animals, and environmental systems. It therefore has deep regard for human dignity and health, animal welfare, social justice and environmental sustainability.