Everything Herbs
Trudy Draskovik
Spearfish, SD

Selling dried tomatoes, eggplants and chili peppers at 3500 W. Chicago, Rapid City, in the Heritage Nursery building. Also selling fresh herbs and canned items at the Black Hills Farmers Market in season.

Several Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs have a limited number of available subscriptions for the 2012 growing season. For those of you not familiar with a CSA, it basically requires you to pay in advance or “subscribe” to a local grower for a season. In return, you receive a weekly ‘share’ of fresh, locally grown produce. Your share varies each week depending on a variety of factors including what is coming into season, recent weather events, etc. A CSA assures you of receiving the freshest, tastiest, and most nutritious produce available. The CSA programs listed below currently have shares available. If you are aware of any others, please let us know!

• Battle Creek Gardens will be offering 50 CSA subscriptions this year. This CSA program will most likely fill up so be sure to reserve your share early. For more details on the Battle Creek Gardens CSA program, click here.
• Also delivering weekly to the Rapid City area is Harmony Enterprises of Chadron, NE. There will be at least two (and possibly three) separate CSA seasons. Add-ons to your share might include fresh eggs, poultry and honey. For more details on the Harmony Enterprises CSA program, click on the “Recent Newsletter” tab at the bottom of the website page. (Note: Updated information will be available in March 2012.)
• Cycle Farm in the Spearfish valley will have an informational meeting on their new CSA program. It is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 19th. For more details, click here.
• Another new CSA to be offered in 2012 is located in the Sturgis area. Bear Butte Gardens will be offering only 25 subscriptions so sign up soon. For more details on the Bear Butte Gardens CSA program, click here.

Patricia Jenkins & Jeremy Smith
287 Evans Lane, Spearfish, SD 57783

http://cyclefarm.wordpress.com/
cyclefarmer@gmail.com

Selling naturally-grown fresh produce through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions and to the Spearfish Farmers Market in season.

Michelle & Rick Grosek
20445 Hwy. 79, Sturgis, SD  57785

http://www.bearbuttegardens.com
Michelle@BearButteGardens.com

Selling naturally-grown fresh produce through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions, local restaurants/stores, and to the Sturgis Farmers Market in season.

Ranae Priem of Cascade Farms south of Hot Springs has winter onions for sale at the Black Hills Farmers Market. What are winter onions, you ask? According to Ranae, “You plant them in the fall and they come up early in the spring—they even start poking up through the snow if it warms up a little bit. We usually harvest half and leave half in the ground to come back the next year. You don’t want to harvest them after they’ve seeded—the plant puts everything into seeding and it’s not as good eating.”

The plants grow two to three feet tall. I asked Ranae about cooking them. “The greens we eat raw or sautéd. I dry them and use them in the winter for seasoning.”

So there you have it. A plant that keeps on giving—for fall planting, for sale now.