Contact Information
- Address: 35 Gary Pearl Drive, Kentville, Nova Scotia, B4N 0H4
School Board
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education
School Type
- Elementary School
School Location
- rural community
Number of Students
650
School Description
KCA is a PP-8 school that boasts a vibrant PTA-run cafeteria led by a red seal chef. We value local, we value made from scratch and we value nutrition. With help from our F2CC grant, we look forward to growing greens for our salad bar via microgreen kits for each classroom and two hydroponic grow towers the middle school science students will oversee. Also via our F2CC grant we will pilot a Kitchen Brigade type after school cooking class, participants will gain food skills and take home essential kitchen wares so they can better cook at home. KCA has a monthly Farm to Snack program that allows taste testing local produce, with class voting to influence what appears in next week's cafeteria menu.
School Food
Meal Program:
- Breakfast program
- Snack program
- Lunch program
- Salad bar program
Activities
- Growing food - indoors
- Hydroponics (i.e., just plants)
- Cooking
- Tasting activities
- Sharing cultural foods
- Purchasing local food
- Hosting local food fundraisers