As Blake Burggraff reflects on the last year, like many, he sees both challenges and blessings. He recently delivered his final hemp bales to Dakota Hemp and was very pleased with the results. He’d planted fewer acres of hemp this year, but was able to get considerably more fiber, so his bales weighed quite a bit more.
Blake Burggraff planted his industrial hemp into a winter killed and grazed cover crop last spring.
People are also reading…
Summer kid goats eat Canadian thistles on Blake Burggraff’s Hartford farm. He’s since sold the goats and is enjoying all the extra time that’s allowing him.
Blake Burggraff and his wife Sarah make up Grand Meadow Regenerative, raising small grains, hemp and other crops using regenerative methods in southeastern South Dakota. They tend to grass-fed goats, chickens and Sim-Angus cattle and sell products locally through Dakota Fresh Food Hub. More about their farm is available at grandmeadowregenerative.com.
Melisa Goss
Tri-State Neighbor Correspondent
