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SDState - Local Foods Education Center

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The SDState LFEC is a farm geared toward student education in small-scale vegetable production.

The South Dakota State University Local Foods Education Center is a hands-on learning laboratory focused on vegetable and fruit production. The farm site is located on the NW corner of the SDSU campus, just east of the SDSU entrance monument on Medary Ave. The farm will use sustainable production practices including drip irrigation, cover crops, and organic pest control methods.

08/21/2024

Something to look forward to! LFEC will be having a free U-pick event followed by a showing of the film “Growing Cities”, a documentary about the role of urban farming in America and the power it may have in changing the way we eat.

Bring a container for your flowers, a lawn chair, and a friend to the Local Foods Education Center on Wednesday, September 4th!

P.S. We've been move active on our Instagram this summer, so follow us here for better updates: https://www.instagram.com/sdstate_lfec/.

05/17/2024

Photo dump! Liz, Lizzie, and Eva have been planting, netting, mulching, and setting up irrigating all week!

04/29/2024

Last week was busy! We had some in-class demos from students on intercropping and planting grapes, we removed our clear tarps to see all the weeds we germinated in our no-till beds, and laid our black plastic mulch beds!

04/02/2024

Before the snow we had some good weather to prep some deep compost beds with newspapers donated by the Brookings Register! We swapped cardboard for newspaper since we heard making deep compost beds in the Spring (rather than the Fall) with cardboard makes for a nice root barrier.

03/04/2024

About to tarp solarize a 20' x 100' section of the farm 🌞! Devon and Ebeni are filling up some sand bags because we're out of other loose, heavy objects to use to weigh it down.

02/08/2024

Like a phoenix from the ashes. 2024 will soon see a high tunnel tomato. We will anchor this new tunnel to the Earth's mantle. 🍅🌏

02/05/2024

Meet the new LFEC student manager! Liz DeBoer is a senior Horticulture Major with minors in Sustainable Local Foods, Agronomy, and Music. After college, she would like to own and operate her own local foods operation with a cut flower garden.🍅💐

01/30/2024

We made an investment into some new time-saving tools this year: 1)Gridders, a 2)Bed roller, and a 3)Quick-cut Greens Harvester. Retiring all of our lettuce knives.✌️

01/25/2024

Listen to the newest Grown Here podcast Episode discussing profitability! Hear from Budding Moon Farm who distributes 100% of their crops through their CSA a...

12/28/2023

The unofficial sponsor of the upcoming 2024 LFEC growing season is Microsoft Excel 💻📆📊🗓🎉

11/10/2023

LAST task of the year: Two more dump trailers full of compost to get ready for 2024! Hoping next year our high tunnel will finally make a comeback.

10/25/2023

🧅Onion Day at United Way🧅

As we come to a close with harvest this year we really want to thank everyone who has helped LFEC this year! We would also like to thank Dr. Lang and Hannah Voye for these amazing onions!
We are so proud and blessed to be able to grow food for the community!

As we go into November we will be thankful for this year and looking into the future for the next amazing year to come!

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