SDSPA Newsletter- September 2025
This SDSPA newsletter features:
- From Soil to Market: An Organic Farming Networking Event
- Farmer Meet & Greet Sign Up
- Specialty Producers Featured at the 2025 S.D. State Fair
- Blue Dasher Farm Hosts Field Day
- SDSPA Visits the Central States Fair
- Poss Ranch Hosts Field Day on Pathways to Organic Beef
- SDSPA Hosts a Wool Garden Field Day
- SDSU Research Survey: Ultraviolet Perspectives of Fresh Produce Industry
- Find South Dakota Watermelon!
- Field Day: Prairie Coteau Farm- Transitioning to Organic Garlic Production
- Organic Chapter: The Grace Place Farm & Garden Story- Abundant by Grace, Organic by Nature
- Farmers Market Chapter: Canning, Cottage Laws, Ready to Serve Foods & DOH Requirements
- Webinar: Great Compost with Chicken Manure
- Field Day: 465 Farmstead- Real Talk on Transitioning to Organic
- Webinar: Seasonal Labor Hiring & Retention for Specialty Crops
- Fruit & Vegetable Grower Chapter: Post Harvest & Drying Herbs
- Webinar: Specialty Crop Business Development: Financing Basics & Tools with FSA
- Workshop: Soil Health
- Webinar: Low Tunnel Organic Strawberry Production
- SDSPA Chapter Updates
- S.D. Local Foods Conference
- Grants: EQIP Program, Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) Program
- Video: Pollinators in Cut Flower Gardens
- Video: Organic Policy Update
- Posters/Publications: Mulching
- Publications: Urban Ag Lesson Plans
- Video: Income Diversification through CSAs, Farmers Markets & Food Hubs
- SDSPA Transition to Organic Office Hours
SDSPA provides regular communications on current activities, news, events and trainings, resources and grant opportunities.