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Cooking up a Good Start at Carson Grove Elementary School

Cooking up a Good Start at Carson Grove Elementary School

In April of 2016, 110 new students, most of them Syrian refugees, started at Carson Grove, a small elementary school in the East end of Ottawa. This n

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Feeding Students’ Bodies and Minds at École élémentaire publique Mauril-Bélanger

Feeding Students’ Bodies and Minds at École élémentaire publique Mauril-Bélanger

In 2016, school life for Mauril-Bélanger’s 200 elementary students began to change with the arrival of their new principal. When Caroline Johnston

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Norman Johnston: From Field to Table

Norman Johnston: From Field to Table

Norman Johnston Secondary Alternate Program is the poster child for high impact school food programs. With Mark Frankish as the Foods Program teacher,

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Outdoor Gardening with Cairine Wilson Secondary School

Outdoor Gardening with Cairine Wilson Secondary School

Cairine Wilson was one of the first high schools in Ottawa to work with Growing Up Organic. Before this, Growing Up Organic had focused only on buildi

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Cultivating Cooks at Woodroffe Avenue Public School

Cultivating Cooks at Woodroffe Avenue Public School

When Carley Schelck from Cultivating Cooks approached Woodroffe Avenue Public School with the idea of piloting a series of healthy food workshops, Gra

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Working Together To Make Good Food For All at Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School

Working Together To Make Good Food For All at Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School

Students at Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School are lining up to volunteer to serve breakfast to 80-100 kids every day. According to Rachel Sheffie

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Building Community Through Good Food at Devonshire Community School

Building Community Through Good Food at Devonshire Community School

Stephen Skoutajan has been running a food based learning program at Devonshire Community Public School for eleven years. He is a pioneer in developing

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The Future of Food at Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School

The Future of Food at Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School

Making and eating good food has a long history at Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School in Ottawa’s West end. For 35 years, an extensive culinary progra

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A Healthy Start at St. George School

A Healthy Start at St. George School

Breakfast club coordinator Siobhan Stewart and her team of committed volunteers start every day feeding 50-80 hungry students at St. George School in

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Planting the Seeds of Healthy Eating at Regina Street Alternative School

Planting the Seeds of Healthy Eating at Regina Street Alternative School

Renuka Darling, a grade four/five teacher at Regina Street Alternative, is passionate about bringing healthy school food to the students at her school

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