Wrapping up our Baking for Breakfast series
Blog post by: Claire Allély , Community Food Facilitator
With the end of the school year, and after nine fun and heartwarming sessions, Nourish’s Baking for Breakfast series has come to an end. As part of the funding Nourish received from the Medavie Foundation to activate community kitchens for community food offering and gathering, Nourish launched a series of baking sessions in November 2023 called Baking for Breakfast, where community volunteers gathered in community kitchens in Halifax and Dartmouth to bake for school breakfast programs.
Schools across the province are facing important food access concerns, and in an effort to both support breakfast programs and share in community about the current limitations of school food program delivery, volunteers gathered each month in community kitchens in Halifax and Dartmouth to bake and share a meal together. From the start of the program in November 2023 to our last session on June 11, 2024, volunteers made over 1500 hearty breakfast squares and prepared over 200 vegetable snack packs. These were served in breakfast programs in five schools in Dartmouth North and North End Halifax, nominally Harbourview Elementary, John MacNeil Elementary, Joseph Howe Elementary, Highland Park Junior High, and Oxford School.
This series has been a great learning opportunity for Nourish in the way that we show up in community, connect with volunteers, value underutilized spaces like community kitchens, and in the way that gathering around food often creates meaningful connection. We are so appreciative of our 30+ volunteers who joined us throughout this program from all across HRM, and look forward to the opportunity to engage with folks again in future programs.
