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Staff chop vegetables, fry salted almonds, breakWanted: cows to winter and down pork shoulders, calf out. 402-640-8387. 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 consumers100% of your When - food markets and restaurants, like Bread retail market and Circus. receives The "Buying from Dakota Broadcaster. Fresh is smarter because When 100% of I amThe Broadcaster is the supporting the local primary medium your retail guy and more often than successful not, thesebusinesses smaller farmers market are have used to reach their doing things the right receives The way," explains Taylor, who customers for over 50 hasyears. Yourentire career spent his Broadcaster Broadcaster. carries more advertising as a chef cooking with than all other local media The Broadcaster is the fresh, local ingredients. combined. 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"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 twoyear Local Foods Promotion Program Implementation grant from the U.S. Department 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 When 100% of your who helped administer the retail market grant. "Watching individuals make receives The a profit as small Broadcaster. farmers is really inspiring." The Broadcaster is the Prior to the food hub, many ofprimary medium 17 Dakota Fresh's successful members marketed their businesses own produce and made have used to reach their their customers for over 50 own deliveries. "It can be complicated years. 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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, When 100% of your natural and whole foodsretail market receives grocery store that serves The Broadcaster. about 2,000 customers The each week.Broadcaster is the primary medium Saum explains that the successful food hub sends her an ebusinesses have used listing their mail each week to reachwhat customers for over 50 years. produce is Broadcasterlocally available carries Your from 17 farmers. "I send an more advertising than all e-mail back and getmediadeother local one combined. And, more livery. 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