Invitation to attend the "Digging Into the Farm to School Movement" social lab workshops - April 26 & 28
Research Coordinator
We are a team of researchers from Simon Fraser University’s School of Resource and Environmental Management working in partnership with the Public Health Association of BC. We are conducting a study funded by the Social Science Humanities Research Council, and led by Dr. Tammara Soma, entitled “Digging into the Farm to School Movement: Assessing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Connecting Learners and Growers through Food Literacy and Sustainable Local Food Procurement.”
Study objective
The objective of this study is to identify barriers and opportunities to scale up farm to school (F2S) or local food to school programs in both urban and rural/remote areas.
Research activity
The study consists of two social innovation lab workshops to design and prototype potential solutions for scaling up F2S or local food to school programs from across BC, as well as a stakeholder roundtable to share the study’s results.
Who can participate?
Food growers, food producers, educators, school meal program coordinators and volunteers, policymakers, and any school community partner who support, or would like to support, school meal
programs.
Upcoming Social Innovation Lab Workshops
In February we held our first round of social innovation labs for participants who live or work in rural-remote and urban areas across BC. The second round of social innovation labs will take place in April
and is open to new and previous participants. Please consider registering to the workshops according to the geographical area that you work in. If this is provincial in scope, feel free to join any of the social innovation labs described below:
Rural/Remote Social Innovation Lab
April 26, 2022
10am-12pm
Online via Zoom
To register: Rural/Remote Workshop
Urban Social Innovation Lab
April 28, 2022
1pm-3pm
Online via Zoom
To register: Urban Workshop
At these upcoming workshops, we will discuss solution ideas that emerged from the first workshops, several of them related to local food procurement - policy and logistics.
Participation at this event is entirely voluntary.
All audio recordings of workshops and the stakeholder roundtable will be deleted immediately after they have been transcribed, and discussions will be anonymized.
A voluntary $30 gift card will be offered as a small token of our appreciation for your time.
Contact information
If you have any questions related to this study, please feel free to contact me at research.c...@farmtoschoolbc.ca. Also feel free to share this invitation with a colleague or community member whose experience and knowledge may be relevant to this study.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time!
Research Coordinator, Farm to School BC
a program of the Public Health Association of BC
research.c...@farmtoschoolbc.ca