‘Teaching cooking is a vehicle to teach food literacy.’— BC chef Barbara Finley tells the room. Notes from this week This week, I’m reporting back on the Farm to Cafeteria/Farm to School conference held in Montreal on November 12-14. It was Canada’s first nation-wide Farm to School and was mainly organized by two groups, Farm to Cafeteria based in Vancouver and Equiterre, based…
Month: November 2015
Trudeau’s government to grab right end of the food stick
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s instructions to his new Minister of Agriculture are followed, Canada will soon lead the pack of G20 economically powerful countries when it comes to food policy. Among the duties listed in Trudeau’s public mandate letter to Minister Lawrence MacAulay is one to “develop a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting…