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Engagement in Food Sustainability: A Review of Programs in Ontario
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It's About Local Food!
- A
Workshop Series
The modules were developed over a
period of two years, with the help of Cathy Orlando, Meridith Tyhurst,
Tammy Chequis, Nick Wolynsky, Andrea Ouellette, and Doreen Ojala. Thank you to Lynn
O'Farrell-Howie (Social Planning Council) and Alice Haasyk (Sudbury Food
Connections Network) for their evaluation and feedback.
The following modules are designed for secondary school students as a way to factor local food into
their diets and understand their ecological "foodprint".
The modules are comprised of
hands-on activities that engage students in food sustainability issues
along three main themes:
1) Waste and Recycling
2) Nutrition and Health (including food insecurity)
3)
Food Miles and Climate change.
In the last module, students are encouraged to start a project of their own
based on their own investigation of the issues that concern
them. It could be to decrease waste, improve nutrition, or reduce food miles (or all).
Youth-led projects will also
develop transferable leadership, communications and organizing skills for students.
Proven
social marketing and project management skills are employed to ensure
successful outcomes for student projects.
Website: Community Based Social Marketing
PDF Resource: Community Based Social Marketing
Website: Project Management Basics
Report and Video: Youth Engagement in Food
Sustainability: A Review of Programs in Ontario.
Publication by The Foodshed Project.
Please download
the following modules and try them out. We would appreciate your feedback,
as the modules have not been tested or evaluated in the
classroom. Contact us at info@foodshedproject
for more information. Resources for the modules are available, including: 1) A Smart
Globe (measures food miles) 2) Calculators 3) Grocery store
flyers for one year, from April 2009 to April 2010. 4) Sprouters
5) Solar oven and 6) various worksheets from the modules, if required.
It's About Local Food!
- A
Workshop Series
overview
It's About Local Food!
- A
Workshop Series Evaluation Form
Introductory
Module - The introductory module introduces
the concept of developing
measurable indicators by ranking lunches for food miles, nutrition and
waste. A further exercise would be to undertake a waste
audit of the school. These exercises allow students to get an
overall sense of how sustainable they are in their own daily choices
and how that impacts the larger school system. By
engaging students in interactive learning activities that measure
their own and their schools sustainability, they will want to be involved in
developing solutions (Module 4). The result could be a project to address
waste such as starting a composting program for the school grounds, or
school cooking club, or a garden.
Exercise: Ranking Your Own Lunch for health, nutrition, and waste.
Resource: Rank Your Lunch PowerPoint Presentation
Resource: Burgers and Fries Nutrition Facts label
Exercise: School Waste Audit Introductory Exercise
Factsheet: What is recyclable in Greater Sudbury?
Factsheet: Green Cart Ins and Outs
Factsheet: Dropping off used batteries at Public Libraries
Module One -
Community Food Security and Food Insecurity - What is your definition of food security?
Is it the ability to buy food - or is it how and where
that food was grown? Is it both? Try this exercise to find
out for yourself.
Exercise: Looking at food security in the Sudbury community
Published Report: Grocery Stores and Hunger
Published Report: Food Access and Obesity Module
Two - Healthy Eating - Without a basic understanding of what to
eat, and what our bodies need for nutrition, we run into the problem
of eating too much junk food - empty calories, lots of fat, sugar and
salt. The exercises in this module are meant to be a tool to understand the
importance of eating a balanced diet, and of reading nutritional
labels. A Canada's Food Guide Tracking Tool helps
track eating habits, and can be a guide for self-learners.
Exercise: Canada's Food Guide Tracking Tool
Exercise: Nutrition Facts Table Exercise
Published Report: Knowledge of Canada's Food Guide in Sudbury
(S&DHU)
Published Report: Fruit and Vegetable strategies (S&DHU).
Website: Dieticians of Canada Eating and Activity Tracker Module Three
- Food Miles - We all
know what food miles are by now - but do you know how many are
represented by your dinner plate? Returning to a locally-based
diet is a common sense approach to developing our economy and reducing
our carbon foodprint. These exercises use grocery store
flyers as ways to understand where our food comes from throughout the
seasons, and the importance of eating fresh, locally grown food.
Be sure to invite a local farmer into your classroom so you can find
out more about the local food system - do you know what is grown in
our area?
Exercise: Counting Your Food Miles using grocery store flyers
PDF Resource: Community Food Security Assessment Tool Kit
PDF Resource: What's Cooking in Your Food system?
PDF Resource: Ecological Impacts of Climate
Change
Module
Four - What's your Foodshed Project? Utilizing social marketing and
project management skills will ensure successful outcomes - a way
to track progress, define tasks, and evaluate progress.
Youth-led projects allow students to be involved in developing their
own solutions.
PDF Resource: Foodshed Project Guidebook
Report: Northern Ontario Child and Youth Report
PDF Resource: Youth and Food Sustainability Poster
PDF Resource: Community Based Social Marketing
Website: Project Management Basics
Website: Community Based Social Marketing
Resource: Enviro - Preparedness and Food - Part 1
Resource: Enviro - Preparedness and Food - Part 2
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