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School Food Gardens

Healthy eating is a natural outcome of garden-based education. Get started here!
Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Schools

This document provides schools with a set of nutrition standards.
Healthy Fundraising for Schools

This guide supports a range of healthy fundraising ideas that can support your school goals.

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School Food Gardens—Challenges, barriers and how to overcome them

Challenges such as what to do with a school garden during the summer months and how to prevent vandalism are common to most schools. Don't let these situations prevent you from gardening! Find out how schools in BC manage these situations and keep up the enthusiasm for school gardens.
Growing Schools

LifeCycles offers workshops to schools in the Greater Victoria Region to learn about soil preparation, seed propogation, outdoor planting and putting the garden to bed for the winter.
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School Assessment Tool

Healthy Eating At School: How is your school doing?

Download the School Healthy Eating Assessment Tool and find out what is working well and where action can be taken!

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Learn how BC secondary schools are finding exciting ways to offer and promote healthier food choices, and encourage healthy living practices amongst students.
New PAC Lunch Program generates same revenues

Find out how the PAC lunch program at Dorothy Lynas Elementary in School District 44 was able to generate the same amount of funds using the new School Guidelines despite higher food costs.

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