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Ecosource is an Ontario-based community environmental organization that inspires personal action and responsibility through creative programming for youth and communities. Ecosource has been leading projects pairing local food procurement with food literacy in Ontario schools since 2006.
FoodShare is a non-profit organization that works with communities and schools to deliver healthy food and food education. We believe everyone deserves access to affordable high-quality fresh food. Since 1985, FoodShare has pioneered innovative programs like the Good Food Box, impacted what kids eat in school, and improved the way people eat and grow food across Toronto every day.
Roots to Harvest is a not for profit and charitable organization in Thunder Bay that uses food and farming to engage, educate and employ high school aged youth. At the school level, Roots to Harvest works with schools and school boards in order to foster positive school food culture developments both with students and decision makers.
Sustain Ontario’s Edible Education Network brings together groups in Ontario that are connecting children and youth with healthy food systems. The network seeks to better enable these groups to share resources, ideas, and experience, work together on advocacy, and facilitate efforts across the province to get children and youth eating, growing, cooking, celebrating, and learning about healthy, local and sustainably produced food.
The Greenbelt Fund changes the way we eat food in Ontario. Our innovative investments get more local food onto the plates of Ontarians. We work with businesses, institutions and NGOs to make Ontario’s farmers the first choice for consumers. The Fund’s work has generated a 13-fold return on our investments, permanently changed the food value chain, and improved local food awareness and education across the province. As a not-for-profit, the Greenbelt Fund is supported by public and private sources.
Join school gardeners from the Lakehead Farm Lab, who will share creative, hands-on ways to integrate gardening and food-focused learning into core subjects like math, science, and French. This webinar is for teachers, students, parents, administrators, and anyone passionate about garden-based learning and growing a healthy school food environment. All are welcome! When: Wednesday, June 11th, 7:00 […]
read moreA reminder that Sustain is currently accepting applications for the second round of nourish to flourish school grants, in partnership with Farm Boy and Farm to Cafeteria Canada. In 2025, the nourish to flourish grant program will award $161,000 in one-time grants (between $1,000-$10,000) to an estimated 46 Ontario schools to support in-school meal programs […]
read moreSustain Ontario is now accepting applications for our second round of nourish to flourish school grants, in partnership with Farm Boy and Farm to Cafeteria Canada! Full details can be found here. About the grants: With a vision to develop an ecosystem where children not only eat nourishing food but also develop a deep understanding […]
read moreOn September 6, 2024, the Government of Canada launched the School Food Infrastructure Fund (SFIF) for community-based not-for-profit organizations involved with school food programming. Six months later, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has selected 10 organizations to distribute the SFIF funds as grants to eligible community organizations across Canada. The goals of these grants are to: […]
read moreThe Centre for Studies in Food Security at Toronto Metropolitan University invites you to an upcoming webinar on School Food Programs Around The World on Tuesday, April 15, at 11 a.m. The webinar will look at the governance and funding of school meals in Canada, Germany, Brazil and Japan, with the following panelists: Debbie Field – […]
read moreThe #GreatBigCrunch is back! Get your apples, bananas, and vegetables ready and come crunch or munch with folks coast-to-coast-to coast to show your support for healthy food at schools. Register to join the virtual Great Big Crunch on March 6, 2025! If you can’t make it, organize your own Great Big Crunch, any time during […]
read moreFarm to Cafeteria Canada is introducing a new grant opportunity! Accepting applications until March 28, 2025, the Indigenous Foodways in Schools Grants will provide funding for Indigenous school communities throughout Canada to support their long-term community visions of Indigenous food security and food sovereignty to be implemented in the school setting. These grants aim to […]
read moreThe Ontario Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food (which is administered by Sustain Ontario) hosted a webinar on December 3rd, “Parent/Caregiver and Teachers’ perspectives on School Food Programs: Research findings from Hamilton and Peel”, presented by Dr. Tina Moffat, researcher from the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Dr. Moffat shared research results […]
read moreThe Ontario Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, which is administered by Sustain Ontario, applauds the Government of Ontario for negotiating a national school food program agreement with Canada. Ontario will receive $108.5 million over 3 years from the federal government to support the Ontario Student Nutrition Program and First Nations Student Nutrition Program, […]
read moreSustain Ontario is working to identify food policy priorities and recommendations that we can provide to political parties in advance of the provincial election. The Ontario Edible Education Network will be meeting on November 7 at 3:30 pm to discuss recommendations relating to children and youth. Please join this conversation to inform our policy priorities […]
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