Meredith Hayes
Schools and Student Nutrition Senior Manager
[email protected], 416-363-6441 ext 248
As a founding FTTS programmer, Meredith is responsible for some of our most well-loved
activities and events. Bringing a passion for good food and environmental education, Meredith
is a major game-changer and one to watch as she collaborates like crazy to change the face of
school food through local, provincial and Canada-wide networks.
Contact For:
FoodShare’s Recipe for Change Initiative, Ontario Edible Education Network,
Ontario Farm to School Challenge, Toronto Partners for Student Nutrition Programs
Brooke Ziebell
Field to Table Schools Senior Coordinator
Brooke applies a more formal nutrition science background (from her previous life in Australia)
with a love of get-your-hands-dirty education that encourages smell-touch-and-taste-it
investigations, out-of-this-world imaginations and wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-
don’t-care celebrations.
Contact For:
Student workshop information and bookings, curriculum development, educator
workshops and professional development opportunities, school events such as Eat-In Ontario
and The Great Big Crunch
Carolynne Crawley
Field to Table Schools Educator
With over 20 years of working with children and youth, Carolynne “fountain-of-youth”
Crawley is a master at harbouring deep connections with nature and nutrition principals. A
keen forager and mentor, Carolynne talks the talk, walks the walk, and more often than not,
gardens the garden too. What ”Miss C” teaches, students remember.
Contact For:
Volunteer opportunities, Harvest of the Month resources, Garden and Food
Curriculum Working Group, student engagement
Justin Nadeau
School Food Innovations Senior Coordinator
Our resident “inventionator” combines an engineering background with intuitive design to
create innovative and super-fun ways to grow food up, down and all around school
classrooms, windows, hall ways, greenhouses, rooftops and gardens.
Contact For:
School Grown Rooftop, food gardens and composting, indoor growing
innovations, aquaponics, Bendale Business and Technical Institute’s market garden
Katie German
School Grown Coordinator
Our very own accredited teacher with recent experience working on Canada’s largest (and
coolest) urban farm as well as coordinating FoodShare’s Focus on Food youth employment
program - can engage anyone to do just about anything.
Contact For:
School Grown program, youth engagement, crop planning,
organic growing techniques
James Davis
School Food Innovation Educator
The “buildi
fi
cationator” brings experience in permaculture, holistic design, green building and
carpentry. James has successfully tricked hundreds of unsuspecting students into drinking green
vegetable smoothies using his bicycle blender-building powers.
Contact For:
bicycle blenders, school food garden furniture, File-A-Sprout, Brock Public School
terrace garden
Meet the Field to Table Schools Team
THE BICYCLE BLENDER
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