Hunger
Food Loss
Farms
Food Waste
Misc.
100
This is the percentage of Tennesseans who are food insecure (latest numbers 2022) is...
What is 14%?
100
This is the reason these green beans can't be sold at market prices
What is their length?
(Markets like fresh green beans to be between 3 and 5 inches)
100
These are three of Tennessee's top five crops.
What are (any three of the following) soybeans, corn, cotton, tobacco, and wheat?
100
This is the stage in the food chain where the most food is lost.
Where are homes and restaurants?
100
This is where the first office of The Society of St. Andrew was located.
What is a sheep shed on a farm in Big Island, Virginia?
200
This is the percentage of Shelby County residents who are food insecure.
What is 13.4%
200
This is the reason these strawberries were headed for the landfill.
What is timing?
They hadn't sold by the end of the market day.
200
This is the number of acres of farmland in Shelby County, TN.
What is 75,000 acres?
200
These are three inputs that are wasted when food is wasted.
What are (any of the following): land, water, fertilizers, labor, pesticides, packaging materials, transport (gas).
200
This is the year the Tennessee office of the Society of St. Andrew was established.
What is 2010?
300
This is the leading cause of hunger.
What is poverty?
"Poverty, unemployment and low wages lead to food insecurity." --Feeding America
300
This is the reason the farmer couldn't sell these sweet potatoes to the grocery store.
What is their size/shape?
300
This is my favorite farmers' market.
Tell each other about your favorite farmers' market! Points for all.
300
When it goes to waste, this type of food wastes the most inputs.
What is beef?
300
This story about gleaning is one of humanity's oldest known stories.
What is the Book of Ruth.
400
This is a consequence of food insecurity for children.
What is (any of these are correct): Malnourishment, obesity, poor performance at school?
400
This is the reason the farmer couldn't sell these ears of corn.
What is their position on the stalk? (They're the second or third ear on the stalk.)
400
This is the law that makes it impossible to sue someone for any mishaps caused by donated food.
What is the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996?
400
When it goes into a landfill, the decay of organic matter causes this greenhouse gas.
What is methane? (Over 20x more potent than carbon dioxide)
400
The Society of St. Andrew hit this incredible lifetime landmark this month!
One billion pounds of food shared with people in need!
500
This is a consequence of food insecurity for adults.
What is (any of these are correct) obesity, heart disease, stress-related illness, hypertension, stroke, and cancer?
500
This is the reason these peaches can't be sold to grocery stores.
What is their size? (They're too big!)
500
This is the act of gathering food that remains in fields after the main harvest.
What is gleaning?
500
This is one way to keep food from going to waste.
What is (any of the following) eating leftovers, using all parts of food, proper storage of food, feeding animals, composting?
500
In just this year, the Society of St. Andrew in the state of Tennessee has shared this much food with hungry neighbors.
What is one million pounds?