Webinars

Alberta’s 2021 Nutrition Report Card is the seventh annual assessment of how Alberta’s current food environments and nutrition policies support or create barriers to improving children’s eating behaviours. Click here to watch Dr. Raine discuss the results for 2021. 

University of New Brunswick Professor Dr. Mary McKenna discusses the school nutrition landscape across Canada. Click here to view this webinar.

The Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative has partnered with Güd Box to bring the Khair for All program of affordable, culturally relevant food to Edmonton and area. Deep and Yvonne joined our AGM to discuss this program. Click here to view this webinar.

Learn more about how Fresh Routes, Bow Valley Food Alliance, and Community Food Connections Association are supporting food security in Alberta. Click here to watch this webinar.

Cory Rianson, the Executive Director of The Leftovers Foundation, joined our Annual General Meeting to discuss his organization’s work. Click here to watch this webinar.

In this webinar, Dustin Bajer from Sustainable Food Edmonton, Steve Schultz from Lacombe Composite High School, and Scott McMillan from W. P. Wagner High School discuss their experiences starting and managing school greenhouses. Topics include how to start and maintain a school greenhouse, how school greenhouses can be used to teach students about food literacy in an engaging manner, and grants that are available for school greenhouses. Click here to watch this webinar.

Scott Hall presentens the Nanâtohk Mîciwin (Universal School Food Strategy – USFS) which provides healthy meals, snacks and beverages for all 11 MESC schools.  Along with providing comprehensive food education, Nanâtohk Mîciwin includes students in growing and preparing meals. Click here to view this webinar.

This panel discusses school food programs in First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities across Alberta. The panel features Clifford Gladue, Lindsay MacCharles, and students from Ermineskin schools. Click here to view this webinar.

The landscape of food provision and nutrition education in schools is evolving to align with new public health measures. At the sane time, nutrition continues to be a key component in student learning. Through group discussions you will hear how schools are successfully adapting nutrition support for students. A Comprehensive School Health approach will be use to highlight ‘The Core Ingredients’ for fostering life-long healthy eating habits. Click here to view this webinar.

Listen to Dustin Bajer from Sustainable Food Edmonton and Scott McMillan from W.P Wagner School and learn more about how school orchards and food forests support school food and agriculture programming in Alberta. Click here to watch this webinar.

This presentation will cover a program of school food research including international literature studied to propose a model for a school food program for Canada, research comparing the food children bring from home versus that provided in small lunch programs, a survey of parental attitudes towards school food programs and some research on school food provision during pandemic-related school closures. Click here to view this webinar.

Hear from Jesse Veenstra (Farm to Cafeteria Canada) and Richard Han (Farm to School BC) about how their organizations are supporting food systems to bring healthy sustainable, local food to schools and other public institutions in Canada. Click here to watch this webinar.