Sam Blomquist is the Food & Agriculture Development Center Director at Prospera Business Network in Bozeman. Sam has spent the past fifteen years working in the food and agriculture sector in the Gallatin Valley and throughout Montana. She has been involved in a diversity of projects from launching successful food and agriculture businesses; providing technical assistance training to value-added food enterprises; working to expand local food procurement in institutions; and numerous collaborative efforts aimed at growing a robust community food system. She holds a B.S. from University of Montana in Resource Conservation and a M.S. from Montana State University in Sustainable Food Systems and is a Registered Dietitian. Sam believes deeply in the connection between food, agriculture, economic vitality, and community and is delighted to working to strengthen MT’s food and agriculture sector.