Promoting healthy eating and helping the community

By: Ligia Braidotti Posted: 10:40 AM CDT Monday, Sep. 26, 2016

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This article was published 26/09/2016 (2377 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

In celebration of Local Veggie Day on Sept. 14, Farm to School Manitoba’s Healthy Choice Fundraiser (Farm2SchoolMB) launched its annual fundraising effort among Manitoba students from kindergarten to Grade 12.

Ligia Braidotti Back row: Mark Zachanowich, vice president operations at Peak of the Market, Kate Brenner, managing director at Winnipeg Harvest, Debora Durnin-Richards, Manitoba Association of Home Economists, Ralph Eichler, Minister of Agriculture, Sheila Perrault, teacher at East-Selkirk Middle School, and Chinweoke Asagwara, program co-ordinator at Farm to School Manitoba Healthy Choice Fundraiser. Front row: East-Selkirk Middle School students and past participants of Farm to School Healthy Choice Fundraiser. (Ligia Braidotti/Canstar Community News)

The fundraiser gives schools the opportunity to raise funds simply by selling bundles of locally grown veggies.

Ligia Braidotti Julia Smith, an East Selkirk Middle School Grade 7 student holds a tomato she picked out of Winnipeg Harvest’s garden.

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