SD83 families are invited to take part in the Farmer’s Choice Box Program. To order a veggie box please click here and to order a protein box please click here.
These boxes are being made available to increase the affordability and access to nutritious foods for families, while also supporting local farmers. Boxes will also include recipes to help with some ideas for using the ingredients.
1. Who can participate? This program is open to all SD 83 families.
2. How do we order? Boxes are ordered and paid for online. Meat Box: sd83.yfmeats.ca Veggie Box: https://naturedelivered.ca/pages/sd83
3. There is a discount option: While any family in SD 83 can participate, each school has a limited number of subsidized boxes.
If you are needing this subsidy, please enter the promo code: SD83WINTER and then pay the remaining balance at the checkout ($20 for veggies, $30 for meat). This discount will be covered by the Schools Family Affordability Fund.
If paying the full price fits within your budget, you can save the discount for someone else, or donate towards someone else’s box.
4. Payment: E-transfer option is available for those who do not have credit cards.
5. Pick-up: Boxes are delivered to schools on a designated day for pick up by families after school during the following times: 2:30-3:30 (elementary), 2:45- 3:45 (Middle) and 3:45- 4:45 (Secondary)
6. There is a need for volunteers to support: Please contact scaner@sd83.bc.ca if you are able to volunteer to help with the Farmer’s Box pick up at your school.
7. There is a limit: Due to the coordination involved in drop-off and pick-up, and the capacity of each volunteer and farmer, there will be a limit of 80 boxes per school (40 meat, 40 veggie). The online ordering site will show when the capacity has been reached and the boxes are sold out.
8. What if I miss picking up my box? Due to limited capacity of volunteers, any boxes not able to be picked up after school will be sent on to a local food charity for immediate use.
Food boxes are delivered to the school/nearby location for easy pick up:
- Group One is Pleasant Valley Secondary School, Len Wood Middle School, Armstrong Elementary School, Highland Park, Falkland, A.L. Fortune and M.V. Beattie. These food boxes will be delivered on May 2 and May 30.
- Group Two is Grindrod, Ranchero, South Canoe, North Canoe, Eagle River and Parkview. The boxes at these schools will be delivered on May 9 and June 6. Eagle River pick up will be at The Hub in Sicamous.
- Group Three is Jackson, Salmon Arm West, Silver Creek, Carlin, Sorrento, and North Shuswap. These food boxes will be delivered on May 16 and June 13.
- Group Four is Bastion, South Broadview, Hillcrest, Shuswap Middle School and Salmon Arm Secondary. This food box delivery will be on May 23 and June 20.
Please read the posters below for further information.
Have questions? Please email us.