Kids Dig SpudsFuel your Kids for Fitness, Fun & LearningActive kids need energy to play and nutrients to fuel healthy growth. Complex carbohydrates, found in potatoes give them plenty of both. A potato is loaded with enough vitamins and minerals that our body needs so you could eat them every day!
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With our partner, Ag For Life, we are now offering the 2026 Spuds in Tubs program. The Program is also brought to you by our incredible sponsors: THE McCAIN FOUNDATION To donate to the program, please call the PGA office $1000 RUSSET SPONSORSHIP, $500 TUBER SPONSORSHIP Seed potatoes donated EPG Fertilizer donated by ICI |
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Activities & Learning Material
Grade 4+ Activity sheets |
Nutrition poster |
Potato Industry infographic |
CLASSROOM INFOGRAPHICS |
WHAT ARE PROCESSED POTATOES MADE INTO? |
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PGA Farmers Direct 
Want to learn more about potatoes and farming right from the people growing your food? Here's a list of some of our potato farmers in your area available for farm tours, virtual tours or other events coming up related to agriculture and spuds:
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MD of Taber/Turin Serfas Farms - Dustin Monson Type of Potatoes: Process Other Crops: Potatoes, Corn, Cereals (Wheat, Barley, Rye, Triticale), Peas, Seed Canola MD of Taber / Barnwell CP Farms Ltd. - Hanneke Camps Type of Potatoes: Process, seed and fresh Other Crops: Sugar beets, seed canola, malting barley, grain corn, winter wheat and spring wheat MD of Taber/Grassy Lake Grassy Lake Potato Co. - Travis Elford Type of Potatoes: Fresh, seed, process Other Crops: None |
Sturgeon County Groot Farms - Michael Groot Type of Potatoes: Seed Other Crops: barley, canola, faba beans, peas, wheat County of 40 Mile Quattro Ventures - Emily Ford Type of Potatoes: Process, seed , fresh Other crops: Cereals, essential oils, sugarbeets, hemp, beans, peas, seed canola, grass seed |
Lethbridge County
403 Farms Ltd. - Lloyd Vossebelt Type of Potatoes: process Other Crops: Edible beans, hybrid canola, cereals, forage Lethbridge County/Coaldale 845 Spud Farms - Michiel Buijsse Type of Potatoes: Process Other crops: Barley, wheat, rye, canola, alfalfa, peas, corn |
The program is designed to connect students with our local food system, while learning outcomes range from soil health, plant science, nutrition, economics, health, history of the potato, and a deeper appreciation of where there food comes from.
These Pizza Baked Potatoes elevate the twice-baked potato to perfection. And, they turn the Friday night pizza splurge into something your waistline can actually approve. Everyone I know agrees, these pizza potatoes are gosh, darned ah-mazing.