Food literacy • nourishing food programs • local food

Building food security and food sovereignty through food literacy, stronger food systems, and empowered food choices.

We help people of every age understand their food, build practical food skills, choose with confidence, and make real food work within their budget, while strengthening connections to the people and places that produce it.

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Upcoming Event • October 17, 2026

The Local Blend

A hands on tea + spice making experience in Winnipeg.

Come smell, taste, blend and talk food. The Local Blend brings people around the table to explore herbs and spices, discover the producers and stories behind the ingredients, and create something of their own to take home.

🌿 From Garden to Cup🌶️ From Garden to Jar✨ Choose tea, spice or both👨‍👩‍👧 Children welcome
DateSaturday, October 17, 2026
Time2:00 to 4:00 PM
LocationBronx Park Community Centre, Winnipeg
Capacity25 participants

Tea Experience

$55

Create your own tea blend and explore Manitoba grown and thoughtfully sourced herbs.

Spice Experience

$55

Build your own spice blend while exploring aroma, flavour and ingredient stories.

Tea + Spice

$80

Enjoy both experiences and leave with two blends of your own.

Registration closes October 14, 2026. Tickets are processed securely through Eventbrite. Space is limited to 25 participants.

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With support from

Additional event partners and sponsors will be added as they are confirmed.

Glass jars filled with dried herbs and spices for tea and spice blending
What Food Chik does

Education is only one piece of the food environment.

Food Chik connects learning with implementation: helping children become curious about real food while helping the programs that serve them improve food experiences, test better options and strengthen local food connections.

🔎 Explore Food

Hands-on resources and workshops that help children find, taste, prepare and investigate food, including where it comes from and who grows or makes it.

🥕 Improve Food Programs

Practical support for organizations introducing healthier foods, testing products, gathering feedback and turning program goals into workable experiences.

🌾 Connect Local Food

Helping programs discover Manitoba producers and food businesses, understand procurement barriers and explore realistic pathways to bringing more local food into programming.

Food Chik Resources

Designed to turn curiosity into participation.

K–GRADE 3

The Manitoba Food Quest™

A seasonal adventure encouraging children to Find it → Taste it → Help Prepare it → Discover Where It Came From, while building connections to Manitoba food and family experiences.

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FOOD EXPLORER SERIES

Food Chik Discovery Files™

Interactive investigations that invite children to explore how a food grows, where it comes from, the people behind it, how it can be prepared and what they notice when they experience it.

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Built for organizations serving children

Bring Food Chik into the work you're already doing.

Food Chik can complement existing food, cooking, school food and community programming rather than replacing it.

SchoolsDaycaresCommunity ProgramsLibrariesFood ProgramsNonprofitsFood Companies
1. Understand
Start with the program, audience and food challenge.
2. Design
Select a resource, workshop, pilot or sourcing approach.
3. Test
Run something small and practical.
4. Learn & Grow
Capture outcomes and expand what works.
Programs & Workshops

Food experiences children can participate in, not just listen to.

Food Explorer Workshops

45–60 minute hands on sessions using real foods, sensory exploration, preparation, food origins and take home discovery.

Guest Sessions

Flexible sessions that plug into existing cooking, youth, daycare, library or community curricula.

Custom Pilots

Test a resource, healthier food, local product or food program idea with participants and capture useful feedback.

About Food Chik

Connecting children, programs and the food system.

Food Chik was created from a simple observation: healthier food environments require more than information. Children need meaningful experiences with food, and the organizations serving them need practical support to turn good intentions into everyday practice.

Founded by Boma, whose background spans agriculture, food systems, producer engagement and program development, Food Chik works at the intersection of food literacy, implementation and local food connection.

Learn about local food. Experience local food. Make it easier for local food to show up in the places children eat.
Dried herbs for teaHerbs and spicesFood ingredients
Partnership Inquiry

Tell us what you're working on.

Whether you're exploring a workshop, food literacy resource, program pilot or local food connection, start by telling us a little about your organization and what you need.

Your responses are collected through Food Chik’s Google Form so they are stored in one place for follow up.

Prefer email? You can also reach Food Chik directly at foodchik44@gmail.com.

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Start small. Learn together.

Have a food program challenge? Let’s explore it together.

Start with one practical idea, a workshop, resource pilot, food test or local sourcing exploration.

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