Local Food Challenge at FourFront!

EcoFront is hosting our own local food challenge for FourFront Design employees on September 15th. 

Mixed green salad with goat cheese and roasted beets from Dakota Thyme

Everyone is encouraged to bring a potluck dish that uses local ingredients from within 200 miles of Rapid City or the state of South Dakota. The competition will include winners for the best meat dish, vegetarian dish, side dish, salad, dessert, and garden-grown dish.


Here's a resource list of places to get local food:

• Black Hills Farmer's Market
• Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Founder's Park
• Main Street Market
• Breadroot Co-Op
• Staple & Spice Market
• Prairie Edge (local bison)
• Dee Holberg
• Set up along Omaha across from Roosevelt Park, Tuesday and Thursday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Sausage, beef, cheese, chickens, honey, eggs, jellies/jam, and produce
• Black Hills Milk (also sells at the Farmer's Market)
• Sunrise Ranch Meats
• 34 Ranch Meats
• Wild Idea Buffalo Company
• The Potted Rabbit
• Cutting Edge Meat Market (Two locations: Piedmont and 5312 Sheridan Lake Rd.) 

Buffalo Chuck Roast with Hard Cider Sauce and Harvest Hash from Wild Idea Buffalo Company.

And here are a few links for recipes:

• Dakota Local Food Network's list of recipes
• Dakota Thyme
• Find out what's in season on Epicurious. Click on your state and the month and it will even give you links for recipes for seasonal ingredients.
• Little House Living
• Wild Idea Buffalo Company's recipes

Black Hills residents, do you have any local recipes to share?