Sustainable Dakota Digest

Community Development Associate, EE9601 Native American Programs, SDSU Extension South Dakota State University POSITION DESCRIPTION: 12-month, full-time, 100% grant-funded position. This position joins the team of Extension Community Development staff, placed at regional centers and other reservations in the state. RESPONSIBILITIES: To build relationships with tribal, federal, state, local and other partners, and to provide … Continue reading »

By Crystal Hallem, SDD Citizen Journalist The City of Sioux Falls Urban Agriculture Taskforce will be wrapping up it’s work on the issue of community gardens, and moving on to discuss the keeping of animals in the city, as it pertains to urban agriculture. The next meeting will be at the Ronning Library on March … Continue reading »

Local chapters of the Weston A. Price Foundation including Sioux Falls, Mitchell and Yankton, will be hosting a showing of the film Farmageddon. Director/Producer Kristin Canty is a first-time film maker, small farm advocate, fresh milk drinker, and mom.  One of her children was ridden with multiple allergies and asthma, when medications couldn’t help him, … Continue reading »

Container herb garden photos courtesy of Maria Birch. All other photos courtesy of Susan Weisflock. How many quarts of home canned tomatoes will your family eat over the winter? No matter if it is just one quart or fifty quarts, you can grow those tomatoes right in your garden. A small piece of ground or … Continue reading »

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in home gardening and home food preservation – canning, dehydrating, freezing and pickling or fermenting. These days it is not necessary to grow a garden in order to have fresh produce for preserving. Nor is it necessary to preserve huge quantities of produce. A … Continue reading »

Every time I go down to my basement and think about the little seedlings that will soon pop up their little heads from the flats I’ve set out, under the light of fluorescent bulbs, and warmed gently from below by seedling mats, I imagine spring is just around the corner.  It’s not, of course.  The … Continue reading »