Local Producers
Vermillion Area Farmer's Market - Local farmers, growers, vendors, and craftspeople sell their goods Wednesdays from 3 to 7 pm mid-May through mid-October at the Washington Street Arts Center (corner of Washington and Cedar). They offer customers the opportunity to buy fresh, locally-grown, and primarily organic produce, as well as other food products. You can get some of the healthiest and most flavorful vegetables available in Southeast South Dakota.
Contact: Caitlin Collier at caitcollier@hotmail.com, 624-8060
Flying Tomato Farms - Over 30 types of vegetable crops are grown using organic and sustainable practices for both farmers’ market sales and the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). The CSA has expanded to twenty members, and in 2007, members will be able to choose between the standard share and a fall share that begins in August and runs through the end of the season. Flying Tomato Farms produce is available for sale most Wednesday evenings during the regular season at the Vermillion Area Farmers’ Market. Owner Rebecca Terk has worked on organic farms in three states, and she has been growing and selling organic produce in Vermillion for over five years.
Contact: Rebecca Terk, 117 Forest Avenue, Vermillion, SD 57069, (605) 202-0252 organicpeas@hotmail.com
The Town Farm - Located at 803 West Main in Vermillion, Dave and Elaine Roetman provide fresh vegetables from July 15 until Dakota Days in October. A sign in front of their house indicates what is available, but they sell cucumbers, onions, garlic, beets, potatoes throughout the summer. Stop in if their garage door is open or the car is parked there.
Contact: Elaine or Dave at 624-8291
Evergreen Organic Farms (Certified Organic) - Martin Weeks and Patti Bancroft sell high quality, medicinal herbs in bulk (Burdock Root and Euchinacea), fresh or dried. They also sell fresh vegetables in season. They sell large Walla Walla onions, three varieties of garlic, carrots, sweet corn, squash, turnips, beets, carrots, pumpkins, eggplant and tomatoes. Jerry Summervold grows organic alfalfa hay and bulk grains. “The public is welcome to come and visit our gardens at 31551 SD Highway 19 just north of Vermillion on the Vermillion River Bluff.”
Contact: Patti Bancroft at 605-624-7663, Martin Weeks at 624-2521
Goosemobile - “In a typical supermarket, you have no idea where in the world the meat comes from, how it was raised and what it was fed.” The Goosemobile markets natural low fat meats raised by South Dakota farmers on grasses free of hazardous chemicals. The animals and birds range free with a choice of diet that nature intended for them to eat, such as grass, bugs, grubs, grit, and so on. Their feed is not genetically modified or laced with antibiotics and growth hormones. Grass fed meat contains more omega 3’s and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid that helps convert fat to muscle), less saturated fat and fewer calories."
Contact: Tom, Ruth, Eulyla, John and Don at 605-296-3314 for a free brochure
Visit: http://www.sd-exports.org/sdpoultry.htm
Burbach’s Countryside Dairy - Pure farm fresh milk produced without the use of artificial hormones. Bottled in glass that may be returned for deposit. Available at Jone’s Food Center and Hy-Vee in Vermillion.
Visit: www.burbachscountrysidedairy.com
Waucapona Farm - Grass-fed beef. Produced without the use of hormones or antibiotics.
Contact: Marvin DeBlauw, Hartington, Nebraska, 402-254-3429
St. James Marketplace - Locally produced meat, jams, jellies and baked goods. Call for availability of items. Open May thru November on Saturday and Sunday from 10-5.
Contact: 402-357-3330
Visit: www.stjamesmarketplace.com
Garrity’s/Hebda’s Family Produce - Fresh seasonal vegetables; seasonal fruit—strawberries, raspberries, plums, tart cherries, apples, chokecherry and elderberry jams; pumpkins in the fall.
Contact: Dale and Rena Hebda, Mission Hill, SD, 605-665-2806
Van's Apiary - Locally produced honey in Union County, SD.
Contact: Dan Van Peursem (605) 624-6368.
Dakota Harvest Farm - Leaner, sweeter-tasting lamb meat from grass-fed lambs. Compared to grain-fed lambs, grass-fed lambs have twice the Beta Carotene of grain-fed lambs and five times the CLA. We use no growth inducing hormones nor any antibiotic therapy. Our sheep are all Dorpers, which is considered the “Champagne of Lamb Meat” because they have no muttony taste because Dorpers have hair, not the wool that contains the lanolin that produces the muttony taste.
Contact: Dakota Harvest Farm at 605-966-5490, 33565 Dakota Road, Jefferson, SD
Weigle Family Farm - We sell organic vegetables and hay.
Contact: Dan Weigle at lildyno3@hickorytech.net, or call 605-565-2552.
The following vendors and products are available at the Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market located at the corner of 5th and Floyd in Sioux City, Iowa. The phone number at the market is 712-224-3535. The market is open M-F 10 am to 6pm, Sat. 8am to 2pm. The goal of the Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market is “to create a year round local, sustainable, organic and humanely raised food system for the Siouxland area consumer.”
Main Bow Farms - Independent family farmers from Northeast Nebraska. They sell mainly Angus beef that is natural and antibiotic free.
Contact: Main Bow Farms, Wynot, Nebraska, 1-800-663-0986
Cranberry Creek Chickens and Turkeys - Free range poultry free of antibiotics and hormones. Meaty and flavorful.
Contact: Cranberry Creek, Hospers, Iowa
Elkhorn Valley Farms - Grass fed Buffalo, antibiotic and hormone free.
Contact: FBLFM 712-224-3535
Perry Creek Pork - Naturally grown and free range pork that is free of hormones and antibiotics. Available products include bacon, pork chops, ham, bratwurst, ribs, ground pork.
Contact: Muth Farms, Ireton, Iowa
Thankful Harvest - Organic, Omega 3 farm fresh eggs. Chickens are free range/pasture fed.
Contact: FBLFM 712-224-3535
Missouri Valley Honey - Missouri Valley Honey is a micro-honey producer in its fourth generation of keeping bees. “Our small size allows us to concentrate on quality and on providing customers a taste of real honey as nature produced it: full, rich and wonderful!”
Contact: Doug and Tessa Markworth 4300 S. Lakeport St., Sioux City, Iowa 51106, 712-251-7280
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