IronFox Farm

10/08/2024

Face it Together is a key resource for our community, providing peer-to-peer counseling for those impacted by addiction, including loved ones. Face it Together's work is grounded in evidence-based practice and people's lived experience. IronFox Farm is honored to support the upcoming fundraising event, "Face it in the Fire" on October 17! Please consider reserving your seat to support this great organization!

Get ready for a culinary showdown like no other! 🔥 Meet our live battle chefs: Ryan Tracy, Chef and Owner of Dakota Craft Links, and T.R. Fuentes-Mckenzie, Executive Chef of Morrie's Steakhouse. Ryan and T.R. will face off in an ingredient-specific battle during Face It in the Fire, our brand new culinary event. Show your excitement and don't forget to grab your tickets! https://lght.ly/i85e4c

09/17/2024

Another field day with our “Farmers in Training” in the books, and we can count it as a success! Our team of volunteers had students picking potatoes, planting cover crops, harvesting and packaging the produce for this weeks’s Fall Festival at Eugene Field! Almost every student tried kale and carrots right in the garden (but I wasn’t able to capture it on camera)!

Thanks to the Jeff Zimprich with the SD Gradslands Initiative for sharing your insights on soil health! 🪱🌱🌾

SoDak Compost & Minnehaha Master Gardeners - It is always so good to partner together on these field days!

08/20/2024

Get your veggies at Fair Market East or West!

08/19/2024

Filled with nostalgia today as the fall shines on the horizon! Eugene Field’s Back to School open house event is already tomorrow. Farmer Dan is back at Southeast Tech to prep for another year today.

IronFox Farm is bustling with bees, harvest, and excitement for students to come back soon!

08/13/2024

Halfway through August! 😧
Hope you all are still enjoying this sweet season of abundant local produce! Find ours at the Eat Well Mobile Market and FFair Market

No open house this week- Farmers are off to the NNational Farm to School Network gathering in Minneapolis! Looking forward to making connections with and learning from others across the country about how we can move F2S efforts forward in South Dakota! 🍎

07/31/2024

Come to open house hours tonight to see our caning set-up! We’ll also sneak in some fall seeding in the freshly picked beds. See you tonight, Wednesday 6-8pm!

07/23/2024

We had a blast with this Little Miss Piggy from Glean for Good at our open house hours last week! Thanks to all that came out!

This week we will not have open house hours- off for Farmer Dan’s birthday! We’ll see you next Wednesday evening, July 31!

07/17/2024

"Like" the animal you want to see at IronFox Farm Open house hours tonight!!

Excited to host you, Glean for Good! :)

07/17/2024

Open House Hours tonight at IronFox! Wednesday, July 17, 6-8pm with special guest from 7-8pm!

Glean for Good will be joining with a special furry friend!

705 S Blauvelt Ave

07/15/2024

UPDATE - Vehicle is sold. Thank you for your interest!

07/07/2024

No open house hours this week- catch us at the Sioux Falls Co-op instead!
Wednesday, July 10 from 4-7pm!

07/03/2024

Lesson of this summer: Get yourself a team member that puts in 100% effort every minute at the farm, a team member that brings skills and strengths that compliment others’, and get yourself a team member that comes with a smile and good vibes.

Good luck finding a team member like Megan P! You can meet her at our open house hour this week, Wednesday, July 3 from 6-7pm! She has some crazy garden art project up her sleeve she can’t wait to share!

See her creative mind at work here with this beautiful landscaping she added between our cottonwoods! Better than anything Dan and Megan EV would have come up with! We are so grateful!! 💚🌱

06/18/2024

The pollinator plot is finally planted - or at least half of it! This portion of IronFox is the lowest ground, most likely to be flooded (though it is not flooding even with these flash floods we’ve been getting lately!). We pegged it as our place for native grasses and pollinators because of the low plane and it’s close proximity to the railroad.

Over its development, we’ve learned a lot of what we would do differently next time and leaned on the support from many!
1- without access to a silage tarp, we piece-mealed cardboard and pallets as ground cover to choke out the sun from the w**ds. This proved to be a lot of extra work, and a futile fight against the pervasive bindw**d. Thanks to Dan’s Dad David, herbicide field technician at SDSU, who gave the safest recommendation of proper chemical application. Still we picked gallons of bindw**d roots! This w**d is incredible.

2- thanks to Megan’s Dad Chris and Uncle Philip and friend Jamie Boley for several loads of composted manure to improve the soil!

3- thanks to Jeff Zimprich Pasque Hill on Beaver Creek for your support, guidance, and supply of the Native Plant Mix. Jeff’s passion for SD grassland and native plants has been a bounty of intel to learn from!

4- thanks to the neighbors for your patience in our unsightly project. In time it will hopefully be one of the most beautiful parts of the farm!

06/15/2024

Quite the haul coming to Fair Market this morning! Strawberries, garlic scapes, and radish!

This Sioux Falls grocery store is one strategy to reduce food waste while increasing grocery affordability. Our partnership with The Fair Market puts fresh produce picked within just a few miles accessible to customers.

Be sure to check out a location near you!
West: Kiwanis, North of Thunder Road
East: NE corner of 10th and Sycamore intersection

06/12/2024

Picking strawberries is such a nostalgic and special thing for us at IronFox Farm. Both Megan’s and Dan’s first jobs were picking strawberries: Megan at and Dan at

You have the opportunity to start your own strawberry patch and support IronFox with the purchase of your own baby strawberry plants (aka plugs)! Right now you can pay $15 for 25 plugs, and the money will go to support our community education and food production. Pick up at our open house hours Wednesday, 6-8pm or DM us for a separate time. Cash or check payment because we don’t have Venmo.

Plugs have been donated by Jan at who hosts a you-pick strawberry and pumpkin patch in Aurora, SD.

Please also consider supporting Berrybrook with their new local, organic ice cream! Find it at the Sioux Falls Co-op or Pomegranate Market.

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05/28/2024

Things are really picking up at IronFox Farm! The glorious moisture had the garden bursting (including the w**ds 🙃) and the cooler temps made work a delight. To top the great weekend off, some of our favorite neighbors came to help! 💚

Maybe one day the wind will learn to rest.