Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributor(s): Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.582

Home food gardening has seen a resurgence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the preliminary findings from the first 6 months of a 22-month home food gardening study in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participant home food gardeners were asked to log their weekly gardening...

A review of food asset maps in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Belinda Li, Tammara Soma, Raghava Payment, Srishti Kumar, Nicole Anderson, Flora Xu, Phonpoom Piensatienkul | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.655

Food asset mapping is gaining prominence in Canada as an important planning tool for the evaluation of local food systems. In addition to being used by planners to identify opportunities for improved food security, food asset maps are also valuable references for sourcing food locally,...

Characteristics of Canadian school food programs funded by provinces and territories

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Article | Contributor(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Mary L. McKenna | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.483

Given the complex administration of school food programs (SFPs) in Canada and recent federal interest, this research systematically examined provincial and territorial funded SFPs during the 2018/19 school year.Relevant literature and the RE-AIM Framework, a planning and evaluation tool...