Farm to Caf and Get Fresh CaféThe Get Fresh Café is a new high school cafeteria model at Westgate CVI that offers fresh and from scratch meals using local and Ontario food, every day. New flavours, combined with seasonal ingredients, all blend together to produce menu options that the entire school is excited about. The Get Fresh Café is where the food culture for the school begins, and lives.
Bringing together community organizations, producers, distributors, decision makers, teachers, students, chefs and good food, Roots to Harvest facilitates high schools to produce local, tasteful, healthy and fresh meals for students students. Follow the progress on Facebook and Instagram. |
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Get Fresh Café 2016-17 |
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High School Gardens & Food LiteracyAt our core, our work is about engaging and empowering youth through food. Whether it be in our many high school gardens or our work in foods classes across the Lakehead District School Board we work hard to make the connections between students, food and their community.
Our staff work with students at Hammarskjold, Superior CVI, Westgate and Churchill high schools working alongside participants as they plant, weed, nurture, harvest and cook food produced within the school gardens. This work is important in drawing the line between food and how it's produced for students and a chance for them to literally take part in the cultivation of food in an observable and supervised way. In addition, we work in foods classes across the board drawing connections between students and the food they eat using presentations, demonstrations, cooking and eating as tools for students to experience and learn. We believe in the importance of this knowledge and the positive effects it has on shaping young people and the long term impact it has on their relationship with food and what they eat. |
