Episode 12: Valerie Trew on Whole-food, Plant-based Nutrition for Children

In this episode we talk with Valerie Trew, the Director at the University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Valerie is a Registered Early Childhood Educator with a Master of Arts in Leadership. She also teaches in the Bachelor of Applied Science program at the University of Guelph and Guelph-Humbe applying a lens of social and environmental justice to studies in policy, administration, and leadership.Valerie views teaching from early learning to post-secondary as a political act and does so with a view to provoke radical social transformation towards a post-colonial world. She has spent 20 years working in children’s services through postsecondary education, regional government, early intervention, and early learning and child care.In this episode we discuss:Early childhood educationWhole-food, Plant-based nutrition for childrenValerie’s path to implementing a plant-based menu at the Guelph Child Care and Learning CentreThe importance of teaching children where our food comes fromPutting Indigenous outlooks in perspectiveHow coloniality and our food systems intersectSocials:TwitterLinkedin Studies and Resources:Child Care Food Sustainability Report Family-focused, plant-based recipes and cookbooks Plant-based Pediatrician resources Positive mealtime for child and parent Veganism and Indigenous perspectivesVeganism and Mi’Kmaw teachings Margaret Robinson - Indigenous veganism: YouTube lecture, Article The Honorable Harvest - Robin KimmererThis Podcast was hosted and edited by Clinton Stamatovich.Support the show