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Matthew Kemshaw
Oct 4, 2022, 4:36:04 PM10/4/22
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Hi Everyone,
So many great resources and opportunities have been coming across my desk, I wanted to get this compilation out to you.
Grants
Farm to School BC
Start Up Grants $3,000 / Scale Up Grants $1,000
Deadline Nov. 13
For more information and to apply: https://farmtoschoolbc.ca/grants/
NOTE: Grant writing workshop being hosted Oct. 20, info and registration at above link.
An offer: if you have a school food program or garden project you need some help finding resources for, please contact me! I may be able to help you find resources.
School Food
October is Farm to School Month!!
Share your great project with the world by submitting it through the Farm to School BC website.
New USDA Farm to School resources
Come to the Table: Exploring School Food Together
Oct 27 and 28
The gathering is a part of the Indigenous School Food Event Series and is hosted by the School Food Development Project (SFDP) funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and hosted at the University of Saskatchewan. The SFDP is exploring community-designed, culturally appropriate school food programs. The event will be a chance to learn from the experiences of successful, Indigenous-led school food programs and to facilitate the sharing of information, resources, and planning.
Teach Food First - An Educators Toolkit for Exploring Canada's Food Guide
Resource for K-8
Youth Advocacy for a Canadian Healthy School Food Program
Join fellow youth-led organizations from across Canada to explore how to engage and centre youth
in a national campaign for school food.
Tuesday, October 11
Serving Traditional Indigenous Food in Schools Webinar
The Indigenous School Food Circle is hosting a webinar on how school food programs are serving traditional Indigenous foods.
Wednesday, October 12
First Comes Food: A Podcast by Canadian Feed the Children
This podcast explores the surprising ways communities are feeding children and families in the face of a global food crisis.
Visit canadianfeedthechildren.ca/podcast for more (site becomes live on October 16th)
Visit canadianfeedthechildren.ca/podcast for more (site becomes live on October 16th)
Outdoor Learning Resources
Take Me Outside Week Oct 17-21
A full week of events and learning opportunities.
From the Outdoor Learning Store:
- A wonderful collection of free Virtual Workshops on the theme of educating outdoors
- New resources available
- If you don't know about these guys, their mailing list is PACKED with resources
Reconciliation
A Just Recovery Through Reconciliation
Over the course of six months, educators will explore the four-branch
framework of environmental inquiry and the associated Indigenous lenses, that present tangible entry points towards a reciprocal relationship with the Land participating as a co-teacher.
On September 30 Sue-Anne Banks, Indigenous Lead for the BC Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, sent out these words and links:
The “orange shirt” in Orange Shirt Day refers to the new shirt that Phyllis Webstad was given to her by her grandmother for her first day of school at St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in British Columbia. When Phyllis got to school,
they took away her clothes, including her new shirt. It was never returned. To Phyllis, the colour orange has always reminded her of her experiences at residential school and, as she has said, “how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying and no one cared.”
One of the most important parts of today is first listening to Indigenous people's stories, and also bringing awareness and sharing stories with each other to learn and grow.
I have shared some relevant links to check out:
National Friendship Centre search:
Please be advised that some stories are not easy to hear and to protect your heart while being open to learning and unlearning.
Taking back our spirits: Indigenous literature, public policy, and healing
Authors Jo-Ann Episkenew (Author)
Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory, Second Edition.
Authors: Flora Beardy & Robert Coutts
*Please, note this is written by a cousin of mine (Flora Beardy) and notes my Great Grandfather Alex Spence p. 43.
Gather: Richard Van Camp On The Joy Of Storytelling
Author: Richard Van Camp
*RVC is one of my writing mentors in the 2022 Audible Indigenous Writers Circle
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
Author: Clayton Thomas-Müller
*Clayton is my primary mentor in the 2022 Audible Indigenous Writers Circle
Land Acknowledgement:
Matthew Kemshaw (He / Him)
Capital Region Animator, Farm to School BC
Public Health Association of BC
Email: matthew...@farmtoschoolbc.ca
Cell: 250 661 8282
PLEASE NOTE I work 20HRS/WK on TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY /
FRIDAY
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I am deeply grateful to live surrounded by the lands and waters of what we call the Capital Region, which encompasses the current and unceeded territories of: the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) people in the downtown and surrounding areas; the W̱SÁNEĆ people of W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN
(Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱,(Tsawout) and W̱SIKEM (Tseycum) on the Saanich Peninsula and Gulf Islands; the Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay) people in Westshore west; the T’Sou-ke people in and around Sooke; the Pacheedaht people further west along the coast, and; the MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) peoples to the north.
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