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FoodShare's Great Big Crunch will happen all across Canada this Thursday, March 10
at exactly 2:30pm. How will you take part?
Started in 2008, FoodShare's Great Big Crunch is a day of apple education in the classroom ending with the distribution of healthy and delicious local apples and a synchronized 'Great Big' classroom 'Crunch' at 2:30pm. Students join us from across the Province and the country every year. From B.C. to Nova Scotia, and as far North as the North West Territories and Nunavut, we have already surpassed last year's participation record and have more than 65,000 students taking part this year - and counting!
Find out more and access a whole host of fun hands-on activity guides and resources here >>
In Toronto, FoodShare's Field to Table Schools program staff will be at Thorncliffe Park Public School (North America's largest elementary school!) leading the Crunch for students there, and we are very excited that we will be joined by Laurel Broten (Minister of Children and Youth Services), Carol Mitchell (Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs), Don Warden of Norfolk Fruit Growers' Association, School Principal Kevin Battaglia, TDSB Trustee Howard Goodman, Sharon Bradovsky from the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation AND students from Isabel Fletcher Public School (Sault Ste Marie) as well as École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Marie in Chatham, via WEBCAST!
This year's Crunch will be more exciting than ever!
You can even participate in a Twitter Crunch:
- Get your paws on a local apple
- At 2:30 PM next Thursday, polish your apple and give it a great big CRUNCH!
- Tweet your Crunch! Take a snapshot of you crunching and, using hashtag #gbc2011, post it to Twitter (using yfrog, twitpic, your webcam, or whatever other means of photo-tweeting that you use)
So, Get Crunching!
How will you take part, this Thursday, March 10, at 2:30pm?
FoodShare Toronto (www.foodshare.net) is Canada's largest community food security organization. Now in its 26th year, FoodShare works with communities to improve access to healthy, affordable, sustainably produced food through community-based programs and policy recommendations, with a vision of Good Healthy Food for All. FoodShare's programs, which reach over 145,000 children and adults per month in Toronto, include fresh produce sourcing and sales, childhood nutrition, hands-on food education from JK-Grade 12, a healthy school cafeteria model, gardening, composting, cooking, and urban agriculture. In 2010 the organization helped facilitate Canada's first school market garden at Bendale Business and Technical Institute in Toronto. Working "from field to table," FoodShare focuses on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption.
FoodShare believes that all children and youth should learn to grow, cook and know good, healthy food. We're cooking up a Recipe for Change: reminding children what food is and where it comes from, teaching that healthy food also tastes good, and helping them to choose it for themselves. Our Field to Table Schools program models and re-introduces food education in schools, bringing the food system to life with hands-on activities and workshops. Students from JK to Grade 12 learn about composting, food gardens, nutrition, cooking, local and global food systems and more.
FoodShare Toronto created the model for student nutrition programs in the City of Toronto, which works hand-in-hand with our Field to Table Schools program, the educational complement that returns food education to schools through curriculum connections from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12 to cultivate food literacy. Our "Good Food Café" is a successful healthy cafeteria, which the Toronto Star has called "the future of school lunches." |
