For the Love of Soil
According to Dr. Tony Hartshorn, this is what plant roots leak.
What is sugar (to feed the microbes)
The name of the person known to be "the father of the green revolution".
Who is Norman Borlaug
This collection of 17 interlinked global goals are designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all".
What are the SDGS or Sustainable Development Goals
This term is used to describe the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status.
What is Social Determinants of Health
This term encompasses the growing, processing, and local distribution of food within and on the fringe of an urban area.
What is urban agriculture
These are considered to be the three three principles of conservation agriculture.
What are no till, cover cropping and crop diversification.
The time period that the National Organic Program standards mandate for a farm to transition ground from conventional to organic production.
What is 3 years
This is the primary greenhouse gas emitted in cow "burps".
What is Methane (CH4)
This term means the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
What is Food Sovereignty
This program allows U.S employers to sponsor foreign workers to work in agricultural jobs if employers can demonstrate that there were no available U.S. workers for the position.
What is the H-2A program
This organism is known to have a symbiotic relationship with the root system of a vascular host plant and can cover and sometimes invade the plant’s roots which allows them to exchange nutrients.
What is Mycorrihizal fungi
These are the three permaculture ethics.
What are Earth Care, Fair Share, People Care
This term refers to the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture.
What is agrobiodiversity
The name of the federally-funded nutrition assistance program that provides prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables.
What is the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP)
This Bozeman non-profit organization serves as the primary provider of emergency food security services AND loves to have student engagement through volunteerism and internships.
What is the HRDC (Human Resource Development Council)
Soils with higher levels of organic matter are better able to hold onto this important compound
What is water or H2O
In terms of revenue, these are the top 2 agricultural products in Montana.
What are cattle and wheat
In the US, what percentage of food produced is wasted?
-Answer within 2% range will be accepted
What is 38%
This title of the Farm Bill accounts for approximately 76% of total spending.
What is Nutrition (Title IV)
This office at MSU works with students, employees, and our community to develop, coordinate, and promote campus sustainability.
What is the Office of Sustainability
This solid material obtained from the thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment is used as a soil amendment.
What is biochar
Montana is the number one US state in producing this nutritious nitrogen fixer.
What are lentils
A methodological framework for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products or systems considering every state of their "life"
What is a Life Cycle Assessment
The two labor leaders that co-founded the United Farm Workers
Who are Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
This edible and medicinal plant was one of the first domesticated plant species in the Americas, but is now considered a weed.