Food Hubs & Online Farmers Markets

Buyer Evaluation Survey Flier (July, 2024) Brief summary of responses to SD Specialty Producers Association’s 2024 Buyer Evaluation. Buyer Evaluation Survey Summary (Sept., 2024) Summary of responses to SD Specialty Producers Association’s 2024 Buyer Evaluation. Culinary Professional’s Use of Local Specialty Crops, SDSPA Results of 2022 survey

  Presenters: Dr. Margaret Brady, Owner of the Mill Downtown; Jamie Smidt Fowler, Local Food Coordinator, Golden Hills Resource Conservation Development; and Deborah Solie, Project Associate, Center for Rural Affairs.  Description: Listen in to hear about Market at the Mill, a new year round market for local

Presenters: Teresa Wiemerslage, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Field Specialist Description: S.D. Specialty Producers hosted a webinar focused on on-farm food safety including FSMA and GAP. Teresa Wiemerslage shared about produce safety programs, discussed best practices, the importance of food safety, and the basics of food

Presenters: Alice Bagley with Fields of Plenty, City Commons Cooperative Description: Alice Bagley with Fields of Plenty spoke on the topic of their multi farm CSA, City Commons CSA in Detroit, MI, sharing advantages and considerations of a multi farm CSA. Recorded: March 28, 2023 This segment

Presenter: South Dakota Dept. of Education’s Child & Adult Nutrition Services Description: The South Dakota Farm to School Network’s procurement workgroup set a goal of helping to educate members on the procurement process that schools follow, so we can better support school staff. This training is a

Presenter: Connie McDonald, Dakota Fresh Food Hub manager & Chara Hymans, StarFresh Farms owner Description: Residents & producers near Sioux Falls, SD have a great opportunity to buy & sell local produce through the Dakota Fresh Food Hub.  In our fourth aggregation-focused podcast, we explore how this hub