Connecting with Local Farmers Addie de Candole Welcome Back! Happy new year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday, and are excited to start growing more food in 2018. […]
Kamloops Region Farm to School Hub – Community Animator Winter Blog Post
Vancouver Region Farm to School Hub – Community Animator Fall Blog Post
F2SVA Fall 2017 Blog: Opportunities to Indigenize School Food Systems Fall is in the air, and our land and waters are transforming. Leaves are turning, chestnuts are falling, and […]
Kamloops Region Farm to School Hub – Community Animator Fall Blog Post
Kamloops Region Farm to School Hub It is back to school for students across the province, and with that, come an abundance of food! It’s harvest time for farms […]
Capital Region Farm to School Hub – Community Animator Fall Blog Post
Capital Region Farm to School Blog With the first month of school behind us, school garden are looking beautiful and salad bar programs are feeding students healthy local food. October […]
Students Serving Salad… And So Much More!
At South Nelson Elementary School, we feel that we have genuinely incorporated the Farm to School vision with the successful implementation of our weekly salad bar lunch program which features […]
Rockheights Salad Garden
Rockheights Middle School, located in the Township of Esquimalt is a school with 214 students, 54% of whom are considered at risk in the vulnerability index. For the specific garden […]
Crunch, Munch and Learn a Bunch: A Story of Taking Back the High School Snack
Cultivating healthy eating and ecological stewardship may require much more than good snacks- but they are certainly a decent starting point. With our Farm to School BC grant, we are transforming a […]
Growing Together-Ucluelet Elementary School
Growing Together: Ucluelet Elementary School Garden There is only one way to describe our first year in the garden, ‘Growing Like a Weed!’ Through a collaborative approach our school garden […]
Christina Lake Elementary Adds a Crunch to Lunch
Christina Lake Elementary School embarked on introducing Tower Gardens to the school community in the spring of 2015. Our idea was to grow vegetables using Tower Garden Growing Systems, and […]
Which Came First the Chicken or the Farmstand?
Our Farm to School program has been extremely successful. Students have been truly empowered by learning about soil, composting, preparing garden beds, planting seeds, watering, caring for plants and harvesting […]