Real Food Grant Program
Grants in Action
Greenstart Project, Calgary, AB
The Greenstart Project is a mobile greenhouse that teaches kids all about where the food we eat comes from. Last year, the project travelled to 18 schools in Rocky View, Alberta, and gave students a hands-on lesson in the sharing and caring of plants.
Newmarket Main Street Farmers Market, Newmarket, ON
Newmarket Main Street Farmers Market brought family and friends together for fall sandwich-making day with the help of Hellmann's Real Food Grant program. Children and parents had the opportunity to create and enjoy their own delicious masterpieces using real, local ingredients.
Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board, Deux Montagnes, QC
Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board used a grant from Hellmann's to implement a series of cooking and nutrition classes for students in grades 5 and 6. Students learned about Canada's Food Guide and how to lead a healthy lifestyle over the eight-week workshop. Students then created their own cookbooks based on their learnings to share with friends and family.
Here is our list of 2011 Grant Recipients:
- Comox Valley, Our Big Earth, Comox, BC - awarded $5,000
- École St-Jude, Cooking Class, Deux-Montagnes, QC - awarded $2,500
- Father Beauregard, Snack/Sandwich Program, Fort McMurray, AB - awarded $2,500
- River Hebert, Fall Festival, River Hebert, NS - awarded $1,500
- Bradford Market, Chef's at Market, Bradford, ON - awarded $5,000
- Greenstart, Mobile Greenhouse, Calgary, AB - awarded $19,000
- Camille J. Lerouge, Kitchen Refurbishment project, Red Deer, AB - awarded $25,000
- Coquitlam River Elementary School, Thanksgiving Picnic Lunch, Port Coquitlam, BC - awarded $1,000
- FW Gilbert Elementary School Garden Club, Urban Eatin' Fall Workshop, Pinawa, MB - awarded $1,000
- Daerwood School, Creative Cooks, Selkirk, MB - awarded $1,000
- Edgewater Park Public School, Healthy Lunch Challenge, Thunder Bay, ON - awarded $1,000
- Covent Garden, Family Winter Feast, London, ON - awarded $2,000
- Savor Stratford Perth County Culinary Festival, Living Salad Bar, Stratford, ON - awarded $2,000
- Christopher Lake, Healthy lunches/snacks, Prince Albert, SK - awarded $2,500
- Foods of the Fundy Valley, Year end food festival, Hopewell Cape, NB - awarded $2,500
- École Albert Naud, Thursday snacks in Canteen, Alma, QC - awarded $2,000
- École Laflèche, Cooking Classes, Grand-Mère, QC - awarded $1,500
- Nanaimo Foodshare Society, Farm to School Salad Bar, Nanaimo, BC - awarded $4,000
- Project CHEF Education, Cook Healthy Edible Food, Vancouver, BC - awarded $4,000
- Student Nutrition Ambassadors, Student Ambassadors, Yellowknife, NWT - - awarded $4,000
- University of Guelph, Garden2Table, Guelph, ON - awarded $10,000
- London Training Centre, Locavore School Lunch Program, London, ON - awarded $4,000
- Norris Arms Boys & Girls Club, Lunch & after school program, Norris Arms,NFLD - awarded $2,000
- The Clean Nova Scotia Foundation,Schools to Farms & Farms to Schools, Dartmouth, NS - awarded $5,000
