shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com December 12, 2017 • Page 7 Dakota Fresh Food Hub Connects Local Restaurants By Lura Roti for SDSU Extension/iGrow It's 8 a.m. Thursday morning and already the Bread and Circus kitchen is full of activity prepping for the day's lunch and supper crowds. Staff chop vegetables, fry salted almonds, breakdown pork shoulders, roast beets and mix ingredients for the restaurant's vege-burger. Amidst preparations, Chef Jordan Taylor takes a few moments to greet Lee Storo and inspect a delivery of local produce. "What do you think of these carrots," Storo asks, holding up a bunch of robust carrots boasting heirloom shades of white, red, yellow and violet. Below the carrots, more crates are laden with swiss chard, onions, butternut squash, potatoes and heirloom tomatoes; all produce raised locally by members of the Dakota Fresh food hub. Dakota Fresh food hub was organized two years ago to unite South Dakota farmers, like Storo and his wife Mary, who operate Mary's Kitchen and Gardens on 10 acres of farmland north of Beresford, and connect these small farmers with wholesale consumers - food markets and restaurants, like Bread and Circus. "Buying from Dakota Fresh is smarter because I am supporting the local guy and more often than not, these smaller farmers are doing things the right way," explains Taylor, who has spent his entire career as a chef cooking with fresh, local ingredients. On any given day, 90 percent of the ingredients used in his lunch or dinner menu are locally sourced. As he discusses his menu, Taylor casually names the farmer who raised nearly every ingredient - mushrooms for the veggie burger were grown in Renner by Jerry Ward of Hackberry Hollow Farm; the beets and butternut squash used in the beet butternut squash salad are from Mary's Kitchen and Gardens; pork belly was purchased from Ashby Natural Pork in Adrian, Minnesota; the bread was baked by Dakota Earth in Alcester and the chicken, used in his Moroccan chicken salad, was raised by Free Happy Farm in Brookings. "Buying local is important to me because I don't want to feed people what I don't want to eat," Taylor says. Farm to table right here in South Dakota Initially aided by a two-year Local Foods Promotion Program Implementation grant from the U.S. Department 1325 Medical 1345 of Agriculture (USDA) awarded to SDSU Extension in 2015, Dakota Fresh food hub is led by a board of directors made up of its farmer members. "This grant has allowed us to get the infrastructure in place to get this business model rolling," says Kari O'Neill, SDSU Extension Community Vitality Field Specialist who helped administer the grant. "Watching individuals make a profit as small farmers is really inspiring." Prior to the food hub, many of Dakota Fresh's 17 members marketed their own produce and made their own deliveries. "It can be complicated for us to get our products into the hands of multiple customers on our own. I did sell to some Sioux Falls customers previously, but today my sales have increased substantially because the food hub streamlined our marketing allowing us to focus more on production," explains Kristianna Gehant Siddens, an Astoria farmer who raises culinary and seed garlic as well as grassfed lamb. The system she references allows her to bring her garlic to a local aggregation point - saving her precious time to focus on the demands of her farm. It also created one point of contact for farmers and those wanting local produce, increasing efficiencies for farmers as well as those buying wholesale produce. "It really makes things easier," says Rachel Saum, Produce Manager at Co-op Natural Foods, an organic, natural and whole foods grocery store that serves about 2,000 customers each week. Saum explains that the food hub sends her an e-mail each week listing what produce is available locally from 17 farmers. "I send an e-mail back and get one delivery. It makes for a more efficient system - it's really worked well for us." Prior to Dakota Fresh, Saum would need to contact 12 to 15 individual growers to access the produce she can now access through one e-mail. Carnaval Brazilian Grill's Chef, Nicholas Skajewski, echoes Saum's comments. "I was sourcing local before the food hub, but it wasn't easy. I would have to drive to the Farmers Market downtown and hope I got there before everyone else or buy from the Natural Foods Coop," says Skajewski, listing freshness as a large factor for buying locally grown produce. "There is such a difference. 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