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Food Security Network NL

Joanne Bays, National Manager

Farm to Cafeteria Canada

June, 2014

Growing Farm to School

in Newfoundland

and Labrador : Healthy, local, sustainable foods

on every student’s plate

Charte d'Ottawa pour la promotion de la santé

La promotion de la

santé est le processus

qui permet aux

personnes de mieux

contrôler et à

améliorer leur santé.

Pour atteindre un état

de bien-être physique,

mental et social, un

individu ou un groupe

doit être en mesure

d'identifier et de

réaliser ses ambitions

et satisfaire ses besoins

et de modifier ou de

faire face à

l'environnement.

http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/

Support

students to adapt or

cope within existing

systems

Encourage healthy

food choices within

existing

choices and systems

at school.

Charitable school

meal programs

Status quo maintained

Engage multiple sectors in

various levels of government to

develop and adopt policy

towards the redesign of systems

School garden guidelines

School kitchen guidelines

Local food procurement policy

Food and beverage guidelines

Land reserved for agricultural

purposes

Tax on junk foods

Limit fast food advertising

National student nutrition policy

Parallel systems expand

Engage diverse

sectors to create

alternative systems

School gardens

Student cooking

programs

School composting

programs

Urban Farming

Community Gardens

Community Shared

Ag.

Farmers Markets

Food Hubs

Community Kitchens

Community

Composting

Parallel systems

emerge

Healthy well nourished kids

Healthier schools, healthier

communities

Healthier environment

Redesigning The Systems That Feed Our Kids

All programs share a common goal To bring more healthy, local, sustainable foods – including fish

and wild foods - into schools” All programs aspire to common objectives To support local farms and the local food economy To promote a healthy environment To improve student nutrition To increase student learning opportunities from “farm to fork”

or from “grow to throw”

Farm to School Programs…

Il existe une panoplie

de modèles De la

ferme à la cafétéria,

adaptés au contexte

des différentes

collectivités, aux

règlements au sein des

établissements publics

et aux besoins des

participants. Les

programmes diffèrent

surtout par les moyens

adoptés pour

l’approvisionnement

des établissements, ainsi

que par la façon de

servir les aliments une

fois reçus par

l’établissement.

Farm to School

Salad Bar Program www.phabc.org/farmtoschool

soupe et salade programme

de bar

Farm to School Hot Lunch Program http://www.foodshare.net/good-food-cafe

2007

1 Farm to

School Salad

Bar program

feeding 230

kids.

2015

100 Farm to

School Lunch

Programs

feeding 20,000

kids

1,500 Farm to

School Snack

Programs

feeding

450,000 kids

Farm to School Grows Leaps and Bounds in BC

Kids Eat Better

Evaluation tells us:

Students are consuming more fruit and vegetables.

Knowledge about food, nutrition and health increases.

Understanding about local food system and the need to support local farmers increases.

Less food waste

Farm to School Supports Local

Agriculture

Benefits to Farmers Additional revenue

New partners

Educating a new generation of farmers.

Emergence of innovative local distribution and

processing models

Potential to expand market to other public institutions.

Farm to School Programs ARE

Public Private Partnerships http://www.farmtoschoolmonth.org/2013/schools -

benefit-farmersfarmers-benefit-schools/

School Gardens Are an Integral Farm to School Practice http://www.farmtoschoolmonth.org/october-8- school-gardens/

Lessons Learned

It Takes a Community to Sustain a Farm..

Rome Was Not Built in a Day

Build it and They Will Come

Support it and it Will Stay

Celebrate Local One Bite At A Time

One Salad Does Not Fit All

Start Young and Make it Fun

Any Child, Any School, Any Community

Farm to Cafeteria Canada

Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) is a national network

that promotes, supports, and links farm to cafeteria

programs, policy and practice from coast to coast to coast

National F2C Survey

144 responded on behalf of schools 36 responded on behalf of campuses 59 responded on behalf of health care facilities

Nourishing School Communities

Nourishing School Communities is a national initiative that aims

to create healthy food environments in first nations and other

schools, as well as after school facilities

8 New Farm to School Programs in NB

3 New Farm to School programs in NFL

27

Farm to School Learning Lab

Engaging up to 8 schools in Haida Gwaii

t

Sharing our Learnings to Scale up

Our Activity Across The Country

Advancing F2S

in NFL: Lets Dig In!

What does the farm to school

landscape look like here?

What strengths exist?

What are the challenges?

How can we overcome these

stumbling blocks?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xL050qeIY#t=628