There were a record number of mini food grants awarded this year!
There were over 150 mini food grants awarded this year to teachers all around BC using one of the BC Dairy Association’s nutrition education programs! We can’t wait to see teachers’ photos and stories about how food is used to help nutrition education come alive in their classrooms. Food is a powerful nutrition education tool! Keep your eye out next August for information about applications for the 2015-2016 school year.
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The Stobbe family heat their milking parlour and their home sustainably by harnessing heat from the milk they produce on their farm in the Shuswap region of BC Abe and AJ Stobbe, dairy farmers in Mara, BC standing in front of the geothermal heat exchange system that heats their milking parlour and their homes What […]
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Three dairy farming families donate new diving blocks to the Agassiz-Harrison Aquanauts Swim Club Karen Hatt (left) and Catherine Schwichtenberg (right), representing two of the three dairy farming families who have donated diving blocks to the AHA Swim Club. A third block was donated by the Hoogendorn family (not pictured). It hasn’t been an easy year […]
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We can’t eat our way out of the climate crisis At BC Dairy Association’s 20th Annual Nutrition Forum, University of California Davis air quality expert and researcher, Dr. Frank Mitloehner emphasized that we can’t eat our way out of the climate crisis. “The notion that a change of our diet would have a drastic impact […]
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