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SICANGU HARVEST MARKET

Sicangu Lakota vendors and shoppers gather at the Sicangu Harvest Market.

When & Where?

Become a vendor!

Payment Methods

We are back for our 2021 season! 


Join us every Wednesday from 4:30 - 6:30 CT at 211 N. Grant St. in Mission 

(the brown trailer two blocks east of Wells Fargo on Route 18).

The market will run each week through the fall. 

 

Fresh tomatoes from the Sicangu Harvest Market and Food Sovereignty Initiative.

Payment Methods

Become a vendor!

Payment Methods

We accept debit/credit, EBT/SNAP, and cash! 


The Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative matched SNAP/EBT dollars spent at the mobile markets and at the Three Sisters Farm booth during our Wednesday markets in Mission in 2020. We hope to continue matching SNAP purchases in 2021!

Sicangu Lakota vendor and children set up goods at Sicangu Harvest market.

Become a vendor!

Become a vendor!

Become a vendor!

To become a vendor, email Market Coordinator Karen Moore at karen.moore@sicangucorp.com, or you can show up at the Market an hour before it opens. Download the vendor's agreement with the button below!

DOWNLOAD VENDOR AGREEMENT
Fresh carrots at the Sicangu Harvest Market, put on by the Food Sovereignty Initiative.

COVID-19 Policy

Weather Cancellations

Become a vendor!

We ask that all visitors to the market wear a mask and observe social distancing guidelines to help us protect our vendors and customers during COVID-19.

Click here for a list of our COVID-19 POLICIES & PROCEDURES
Fresh produce at the Sicangu Harvest Market, organized by the Food Sovereignty Team

Order/Shop Online!

Weather Cancellations

Weather Cancellations

Coming 2021!


Our Food Sovereignty Initiative was a finalist in the MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship Challenge, and received funding to create a bilingual (Lakota + English) online marketplace that will help increase food access, support our local tribal producers, & revitalize the Lakota language through food. 

Fresh fruit at the Sicangu Harvest Market, organized by the Food Sovereignty team.

Weather Cancellations

Weather Cancellations

Weather Cancellations

Cancellations due to weather will be announced on our Facebook page.

Harvest MARKET

The Sicangu Harvest Market

The Sicangu Harvest Market is a seasonal farmers’ market based in Mission, SD operated by the Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative. The market offers fresh, local produce from the Food Sovereignty Inititive’s Three Sisters Farm, as well as local meat, vegetables, bread, eggs, baked goods, indigenous ingredients, and homemade art & jewelry.


The Market launched in 2015 as the Keya Wakpala Farmers’ Market. At the time, the Sicangu Food Sovereignty Initiative was the sole vendor, selling produce from what was then known as the Keya Wakpala Community Garden, a one-acre teaching garden (now the Three Sisters Farm). The market now regularly hosts between six to fourteen vendors each week. 


Click here to learn more about our Mobile Markets-- our pop-up locations in sixteen communities across the Rosebud Reservation! 


Mission Statement:

Our Mission is a reconnection of the Lakota Oyate with culturally relevant and sustainable food systems by operating a tribally supported farmers market that provides: economic outlets for farmers and producers, access to locally crafted, traditional and farm fresh products, & education and culture surrounding food and sustainable agriculture. 


  Guiding Principles

1. Prioritize and nurture the interests of local, sustainable agriculture. 

2. Provide an accessible, profitable, educational and culturally relevant venue for small‐scale businesses to produce and distribute their products locally. 

3. Present a diversity of the highest quality local vendors and handmade products in a vibrant  marketplace.  

4. Encourage environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable practices in all  organizational and vendor operations.

5. Foster interest and involvement in the organization.

6. Create an environment for our community to gather and participate in local culture and  commerce, regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality, or sexual preference. 

7. Be a resource to other agencies serving producers on the Rosebud Reservation. 


Qualifications 

Tribal members and residents of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe will be given priority market space. Applicants from RST’s surrounding counties will be granted membership if market space has not been filled by RST applicants, and also from other states on a third priority basis if space has not been requested by neighboring county applicants.  Management reserves the right to limit the number of vendors.

Vendors and Food Sovereignty team work to provide local, fresh produce at the Sicangu Harvest Market

Mobile markets

Sicangu Lakota tribal members gather at the Farmers' Market.

The Sicangu Harvest Market is going mobile once again!

Our mobile market operates on Tuesdays & Thursdays in 2021; check out our Facebook page for the bi-weekly schedule! 


We launched our mobile farmers' markets in 2019 with weekly pop-ups in the communities of St. Francis and Parmelee. In 2020, we expanded and visited sixteen communities across the Rosebud Reservation in August and September 2020, bringing you fresh local produce, indigenous ingredients, and pantry staples. In 2021, we are once again visiting communities across the Rosebud. 


Market reports

2019 Market Report (pdf)Download
2018 Market Report (pdf)Download
2017 Market Report (pdf)Download

other food sovereignty links

employment opportunities

Food sovereignty resources

Food sovereignty resources

Click here for to check out our general CDC career listings, or below for our FSI Internship opportunities!

FSI Internships

Food sovereignty resources

Food sovereignty resources

Food sovereignty resources

A collection of planting guides, recipes, and other resources!



FSI Resources

ONLINE ORDERING

Food sovereignty resources

ONLINE ORDERING

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VENDOR AGREEMENT

Click to download and open a PDF version of our Vendor Agreement that you can print and fill out!

2020 Sicangu Harvest Market Vendors Agreement (pdf)

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