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?

Become a Locavore!

It's time again for the Eat Local Food Challenge!


Starting August 1st, plan on trying to eat only local foods (within a 200-mile radius) for five days in a row.


See here for some ideas on where to get local food in the Black Hills. And since it's summertime, plan on hitting up the farmer's market in Founders Park on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, open at 9 a.m.

Want to know what's in season in your area? Check out this map to find out what seasonal ingredients are available by month.

Good luck!

Eat Well Guide

Where are the best places around your town to find sustainable food choices?

Here in Rapid City, I'm a regular shopper at both Main Street Market and the Breadroot Co-Op. I also like to hit up the farmer's market in the summer, and get local bison meat from Prairie Edge sometimes. Occasionally, I'll order hard-to-find organics and other products from Azure Standard who come through town about once a month.

Here's a great website I discovered recently that serves as a guide to finding sustainable and organic food choices. The Eat Well Guide is also a great resource if you plan on traveling and attempting to eat sustainably as you go.

Check it out!