Montana Soil Health Week
April 1 - 7, 2025
Join in the celebration of Montana’s 2nd annual Soil Health Week!
The weeklong celebration is designed to raise awareness about how healthy soils can increase crop yields, strengthen food security, create greater climate resiliency, and improve nutrition. Soil Health Day and Week highlights the work of everyone stewarding soil health across Montana.
In 2023, the Montana Legislature passed a bipartisan resolution designating the first week of April as Montana Soil Health Week and the first Wednesday in April as Montana Soil Health Day.
How to Participate
As an Individual
Discover the wondrous world of Soil Health! Participate in this year’s Soil Health Week by posting on social media, attending soil health related events in the community, or activities in your own backyard!
With your Organization
Examples of how conservation districts, partners, and other organizations can spread the word about Soil Health.
As a Producer
Dive in to these great resources and learn how you can improve your soil and bottom line. Consider contacting your local conservation district and attending events like the Montana Soil Health Symposium.
Resources
General Resources
UN World Soil Day
Resources Include:
- Full Campaign Materials List
- Contaminants transfer
Poster about how soil contaminants impact human health via the food chain - Biodiversity Poster
For Educators
Intro letter to teachers/schools (Coming Soon)
Soils Coloring Book
Middle School Lesson Plan
Soils for teachers website from the Soils Science Society of America. Their lessons and activities search can be filtered by age group/grade, specific topic, or resource/activity type.
Soils 4 Teachers
List of conservation books for kids
Social Media Resources
Videos
Soil Society Monthly Videos
Videos for every month of the year, simple and visually appealing enough for kids
Soil Week Playlist
Soil Week Playlist from the Institute for Food and Agriculture. Some videos are storytime, some videos are soil demonstrations and activities for young children.
NRCS Soil Health Demonstrations
Soil Week Playlist from the Institute for Food and Agriculture. Some videos are storytime, some videos are soil demonstrations and activities for young children.
MT NRCS Soil Health Playlist
RCS Soil Health Playlist with many of these videos are interviews/focused on specific MT producers.
Past, Present and Future of Conservation Districts
This 10-minute mini-documentary details the inception of America’s conservation districts following the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and follows them throughout the ages as they’ve grown and strengthened from coast to coast.
CANVA TEMPLATE
Five Slides
Set of five slides that districts can easily customize for their social media!
Clicking the template link automatically makes a copy of the project in Canva, so you’ll have your own version that you can customize without overwriting the original template. Customize away!
READY TO USE
Simple Single Image
Ready to use social media image.
There is also a Canva template version that districts can copy and customize.
Clicking the template link automatically makes a copy of the project in Canva, so you’ll have your own version that you can customize without overwriting the original template. Customize away!
CANVA TEMPLATE
Soil Health Principles
Ready to use social media image.
There is also a Canva template version that districts can copy and customize.
Clicking the template link automatically makes a copy of the project in Canva, so you’ll have your own version that you can customize without overwriting the original template. Customize away!