Farm to School Spring Celebration: Let's Celebrate Food! Join us  for an in-person, hands-on learning pro-d, exploring cooking and gardening classroom activities. The morning session will focus on cooking and food exploration and include a review of the new toolkit "Teaching Food First", as well as a new online database of tested, food literacy lesson plans for teachers hosted by Farm to School BC. In the afternoon, we will move outdoors with guests from Butler Urban Farm to learn about engaging activities to do outdoors in the garden. Session takes place at Arthur Hatton Elementary. Please note the start time of 9:00 am., so you will miss the keynote.

Simone Jennings is a Public Health Dietician with the Healthy Communities team at Interior Health. She has 13 years of experience supporting food literacy education in schools and she participated in the provicial working group that developed the "Teach Food First" toolkit.

Serena Caner is a registered dietician and Community Animator for the Farm to School BC program in the Kamloops region. 

Natalie Cryderman is the school program liaison from Mt. Paul Community Food Centre.

Adam Florence is a chef and instructor for TRU's Culinary Arts Program.

Jamie Garbutt is the sustainability educator for the City of Kamloops.

Kevin Pankewich is the farmer and food-lover from Butler Urban Farm.

Marianna Guerra runs the Gleaning Abundance Program for the Kamloops Food Policy Council.