Connecting children and youth with healthy food systems

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
  • Work together on advocacy, and
  • 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 stories about the spaces, places and ideas that are changing what kids eat.

 

Photo Credit: Children get ready to dig in The Stop CFC’s teaching gardens.

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