LENNOX, S.D. ( South Dakota News Watch ) - Just 20 minutes away from South Dakota’s biggest city is an unexpected oasis. Chickens and geese freely roam, goats bleat for treats, and a traditional barn with a shining metal roof towers over the prairie. There, people gather every Friday and Sunday in the summer and eat farm-to-table pizza made in a wood-fire oven while enjoying the outdoors.

This is the Good Earth Farm in Lennox, and it represents a growing trend across the state of “agritourism,” which attracts visitors to farms and ranches to try everything from flower picking to farm tours.

Nancy Kirstein, who runs the farm with her husband, Jeff, bought the property in 2011. It started as a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, where they sold the produce that they grew on th

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