We set out on our Farm to School journey with two goals. The first was to create a school garden and the second was to continue to support our school’s morning snack program. The process has been both rewarding and challenging at the same time. The idea of a school garden had been swirling around […]
Sardis Secondary School Farm – Growing Community The Sardis Secondary School Farm (SSSFarm) is a 5-acre extension of our School’s Agriculture Program at Sardis Secondary School, Chilliwack, BC. During the 2014-2015 school year 100 students were involved in our new program. In the fall, students planted 2000 bulbs on the farm for our beautiful […]
Diane Smith – Principal, Parkland Elementary and Christine Piltz, Community Lead Accomplishments: The installation of an incubator/starter school-community garden was a great success. Both students and community were able to experience hands on learning with seed starting indoors, transplanting to the garden and harvesting throughout the summer and into the Fall of 2015. In particular, lots […]
Our Big dream QEA Farm to School’s program started with a focus on nutrition education and food skill building. Our idea was to develop and enhance the students’ understanding of food and healthy eating through creative, hands on learning. We have used the expertise of community partners and parent volunteers to educate the students on gardening, […]
Apples and Berries We’re so glad that our students had an opportunity to eat and interact with fresh fruit grown on the farms in our community. We focussed on apples and berries because they were both readily available in our area. The berries could be frozen for use during the winter and our students loved the crispy […]
Well, shoot for the stars, they say- and we did. We came to this project with a lofty vision, four women, a classroom of wonderful children and oodles of excitement. Our vision was to create a hands-on, interactive, fun, food literacy learning resource for our class, our school, and our community. As with every grand […]
The Royal Bay Secondary Garden….Our Story The garden at Royal Bay Secondary began as a small piece of criteria on an RFP for our school plan. Once we had agreement from the architects to include a garden in the plans, we waited patiently while the school was being constructed. With so many other, traditional aspects […]
First of all, we need to come clean about the fact that we haven’t done THE priority identified for our Farm to School BC grant- a commercial dishwasher. Nevertheless, 2016 has been a year of great success! How can that be? Well, we didn’t need a dishwasher after all; what we needed was relationship-building and […]
Our garden adventures at our elementary and highschool in Clearwater already had a long history before we embarked on our Farm to School program. Six years ago at Raft River Elementary, our PAC initiated a project where each classroom started 6 packs of tomatoes and peppers from seed. This was the true beginning of a […]
Smithers Secondary School is located ~800 km north of Vancouver BC. Our outdoor frost-free season for vegetables typically spans from the end of May to the Middle of September. This poses a particular challenge to a school as much of the normal growing season takes place outside of school time. As a result food production […]