Prairie Moon Herbs

04/13/2024

Nettles: the Herb of Spring! Versatile, delicious, and nutritious, once the leaves on this woodland, marshland plant green up you can start harvesting. Harry updated the drying shed, and nettles are the first to grace it. We dry extra for winter soups, but we prefer eating nettles sautéed with butter and onions, then added to eggs. The sting does away once heated. Nettles contain 3x the vitamins and minerals of kale. In fact, they have so much Niacin, or B-6, that you may experience a niacin flush.

03/29/2024

Two of my favorite things gardening: finding the garlic popping up in the Spring, and digging up potatoes in the Fall. Good Friday is the day we plant potatoes in South Dakota. The garden season has started!

03/15/2024

How do I know when to start cool weather crops, like peas, cilantro and lettuce? When the chickw**d starts growing and the soil has the perfect crumble.

02/01/2024

Vermillion Farmers Market this Saturday! 10-1pm at the 4H Bldg on High St.
Flowers and chocolate, and other fun herbal things! Hope to see you there!

01/19/2024

The gardener to the plants, “It’s time to get ready for the Farmers Market tomorrow!”
The plants say, “Mama, it’s too cold out there for us!”
The gardener, “You’ll find nice new families who will keep you warm, and you will make them happy with your flowers.”
The plants respond, “Can we grow a little longer, and see our new friends on February 3rd?”
This gardener will not be attending the Vermillion Farmers Market tomorrow. We will see you on February 3rd, with happy plants and hand rolled chocolate truffles!

01/12/2024

Making Tzatziki, Greek cucumber dip, in the middle of a South Dakota snow day!

12/04/2023

Get ready to have some fun, bidding in these generous donations from Farmers Market vendors and our wonderful local businesses and community members!
Also, Modern Woodmen will help the Market with a matching donation!!
Auction goes live Dec 6th, but you can preview items now.
Our non-profit market has supported locally grown/locally made for over 20 years. We are always struggling for funds for advertising, our market manager, supplies and programming. Your support really helps us continue!
Thanks!!
Some of our donations include: homemade quilt by Peg Miller, bowls by Sophia Weimers, Adventure Parties with the Adventure Girls!, A night at Valiant Vineyards, gift certificates to Cee Cees, The Bean, and Mr Smiths! Bread baking with Harry, vendor donations include incredible hand made products, and Gundys $75 meat bundle! Marcella and Mikie created a Peace and Poetry basket!! Really, take a look. Super fun stuff!!

Silent auction '2023 Silent Night Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

03/13/2023

Leaping Leprechauns! Come to the March 18th Vermillion Farmers Market, 10am-1pm at the Clay County 4H building. Free Magic sticks! Our favorite twigs that come to life in your warm home. Also Irish dancing! Everything homemade and homegrown at the farmers market!!

03/05/2023

Herb Club 2023! Join our 6 month subscription and receive monthly treats in the mail! Lori Peterson and I put together a package with 3 herbal treats and a newsletter about the Herb-of-the-Month. It’s hard to predict which seasonal herb will inspire! but you will get something sweet, something savory, and some type of infused herb product for bath & beauty. First packages are shipped the 3rd week in April. If you are local and choose to pick up from market, you may pick and choose your club package!! Herb walks for members in the summer!

03/05/2023

Winter Storm D, the one that cut our New Orleans trip short. You don’t play around with SD severe weather forecasts! Another storm that froze up the diesel in the plow, that goodness for good neighbors! D is for Dandelions, the w**d that colors our lawns yellow in the Spring. The Herb that we can use as a daily tonic to help provide micronutrients to our body. The vitamins and minerals contained in eating the greens in early spring is a delicious way to renew your energy. Sauté the greens with olive oil and onions. “A mess of greens” as my grandma used to call them.

03/04/2023

Prairie Moon Herbs will not be at today’s Winter Market. But, on March 18th we’ll be there with all the Irish green possible! The baby herb plants have sprouted!!

02/05/2023

Winter Prairie Moon with Compass plant.