A town of 10,000 can spend roughly $15 million yearly on food products. If only 10 percent of the $15 million is purchased from local growers, $1.5 million would be kept in our local economy. This money could be re-spent to benefit other businesses, the school system, and city and county budgets. The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University estimated that Iowa could gain an additional $302 million and 4000 jobs if Iowans ate five fruits and vegetables a day that were locally grown. In addition, there would be enormous health savings on a health diet.

Vermillion Area Farmers Market
Local farmers, growers, vendors, and craftspeople sell their goods Thursdays from 3 to 7 pm late May through late October at the Clay County Fairgrounds (corner of Cherry and High Streets). They offer customers the opportunity to buy fresh, locally-grown produce, as well as other food and craft products. You can get some of the healthiest and most flavorful vegetables available in Southeast South Dakota. We accept cash, personal checks (vendor permitting), debit, and EBT (on approved foods). Contact: Rebecca Terk (605) 202-0252 or organicpeas@hotmail.com

Flying Tomato Farms
Over 40 types of vegetable crops are grown using organic and sustainable practices for both farmers’ market sales and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares.  Contact farmer for CSA share availability.  Flying Tomato Farms produce is available for sale most Thursday evenings during the regular season at the Vermillion Area Farmers’ Market.
Contact: Rebecca M. 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

Morse’s Market
Located at 15 Cherry Street in Vermillion, the market is locally owned and open daily to sell a wide assortment of seasonal fruits, vegetables, other produce and garden products.
Contact: Mitchell Morris, 624-2122

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. Go to their website http://www.sd-exports.org/sdpoultry.htm to determine when the Goosemobile will be in your town.

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.
Contact: Website: 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 Website: 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

If we have not included you as a local producer, please contact Dean Spader at 605-624-6831, dspader@usd.edu, or Barbara Yelverton at 605-624-6678 and we will add you to our list of producers.