Central Island Food Literacy Hub - Highlight: Bayview Elementary, Winter Webinars
Erin Champion
Central Island Food Literacy Hub
Supporting School Districts 68, 69 & 70
Snuneymuxw, Stz’uminus, Snaw-naw-as, K’ómoks, Hupac asat ̌̓ ḥ,
Huu-ay-aht, Yuułuʔiłʔath, Tla-o-qui-aht, and c̓išaaʔatḥ territory
Highlight of the Month
Bayview Elementary
Check out the accomplishments at Bayview Elementary in 2021! Their Farm To School BC funds have been used to create new garden beds. These annual garden beds are part of BEᶟ - Bayview Edible Educational Ecosystem! BEᶟ was established back in 2017 by the Mid Island Youth and Community Cooperative. Families in the neighborhood benefit from these publicly accessible gardens, collecting produce over the summer to use at home.
Opportunities
Farm To School BC School Garden Mentorship Series: Designing your School Garden
February 15 @ 3:15– 4:30pm PST
Sign up here
In this workshop:
- Setting garden design goals for success and inspiration
- Purchasing materials on a budget
- Navigating school garden policy and regulations
- Engaging your class with the garden design
- Guest speakers: Aaren Topley and Megan Zeni
Winter webinar: Food is Relationships
February 23, 2022 @ 12:00 - 13:30 ET (9:00am PST!)
Hosted by Nourish. In the Winter webinar: Food is Relationships, join us as we chat with TORY FISHER, teacher and Anishinaabemowin language keeper of Nbisiing Nishnaabek (Nipissing First Nation). Tory will share from his expertise of Indigenous histories as a teacher, and how he works to pass on practices such as rabbit snaring to the next generation.
Job Opportunity:
Fresh Roots has several summer jobs postings up right now
While we work in the Lower Mainland of BC, we have hired folks from across Canada for our summer positions.All the jobs are mainly outdoor based working on the schoolyard farms, at markets or with our youth programs or summer day camp for the younger kiddos! Many are Vancouver based but some at our schoolyard farm sites in Coquitlam and Delta. Many positions are entry level with some more advanced positions available.
Note that applicants must meet eligibility for Canada Summer Jobs.Short descriptions and links to apply can be found at this page here: https://freshroots.ca/about/job-opportunities/
This network is member-accessible. Please feel welcome to share your food literacy workshops, opportunities, and other outreach initiatives by emailing: f2s-nanaimonorth-region-network@go
| Erin Champion (she/her) Central Island Animator, Farm to School BC a program of the Public Health Association of BC |
I acknowledge that I live on the territory of the Snuneymuxw. I acknowledge my work supporting school programming is on Snuneymuxw, Stz’uminus, Snaw-naw-as, K’ómoks, Hupac asat ̌̓ ḥ, Huu-ay-aht, Yuułuʔiłʔath, Tla-o-qui-aht, and c̓išaaʔatḥ territory.