Healthy Farm to School Fundraising with Nourish Your Roots

Authors

  • Melissa Stewart Dalhousie University, Nourish Nova Scotia

Keywords:

School food, healthy fundraising, local

Abstract

Nourish Your Roots (NYR) is a healthy farm-to-school fundraising program of Nourish NS designed to: support the Food and Nutrition Policy for Nova Scotia Schools; help sustain healthy food-related programming in schools; and support the whole, healthy local food economy in Nova Scotia.

References

Nourish Nova Scotia. (2016). Nourish Your Roots pilot evaluation report 2015. Retrieved from https://nourishns.ca/files/documents/NYR_Evaluation_ APR25.pdf

Nourish Nova Scotia. (2017). Nourish Your Roots evaluation report 2016. Retrieved from https://nourishns.ca/files/documents/NYR_Evaluation_ Report_ 2016_FINAL .pdf

Province of Nova Scotia. (2006). Food and nutrition policy for Nova Scotia public schools: Policy directives and guidelines. Retrieved from https://www.ednet. ns.ca/sites/default/files/pubdocspdf/foodnutritionpolicy guidelines.pdf

Province of Nova Scotia. (2007). A guide for Nova Scotia public schools: Fundraising with healthy food and beverages. Retrieved from https://www. ednet.ns.ca/docs/ foodnutritionfundraising.pdf

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Published

2019-07-03

Issue

2018: Healthy Living, Healthy Life Conference Proceedings

Section

Theme 3: Health, wellbeing, and wellness-focused innovations in communities and policies

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