Welcome to Dynamic Growing Solutions
Headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, DGS specializes in assisting cannabis growers throughout the United States.
Whether you’re beginning your cannabis venture or a veteran grower, we can assist with a variety of expertise that will ensure success.
Feel free to learn more about us and please call or email us with any inquiries.
Where we can help
Growing system design and operation
Growers have different goals and different preferred techniques and we believe that providing customers with access to the latest and most efficient growing systems is vital to their success. DGS’ team can design and provide growers with soil based, full hydroponic, and soilless systems in all growing conditions.
Nutrient program development
DGS can help growers wade through the waters of selecting and fine tuning nutrient programs that excel within particular systems and cultivators. We have a commitment to utilizing sustainable practices and products that reduce environmental impact, lower costs, and increase production.
Integrated pest management (IPM)
Pest and disease proliferation is often the largest challenge that growers face. DGS can provide growers with pest and disease identification along with safe, effective pesticide application programs that abide by state and federal laws.
Staffing Solutions
Finding the right personnel to run and operate a cannabis driven business is often painstaking and fruitless. DGS is able to fill your staffing and management needs with qualified individuals who will help your business succeed and exceed.
General compliance
Complying to state and federal regulations is essential and DGS can ensure that all operations and procedures at a client’s business are compliant with state and federal regulations and standards.
Sustainability consultation
Recognizing that intensive cultivation of horticultural crops can have negative environmental consequences, DGS wants to help clients improve their environmental sustainability while also increasing agronomic efficiency. The end results is a cleaner, more sustainable facility and increased profits.
Our Team
Travis was raised in Rapid City and the Baumgartner brothers were raised in Rockerville, SD. All are 4th generation South Dakotans.
Jake Baumgartner
Marketing director and client outreach
Prior to co-founding DGS, Jake has been successful in the brewing and first aid/safety equipment industries. From the University of South Dakota, he holds a degree in strategic communications that specializes in marketing and public relations. Jake is not only responsible for successful marketing avenues as Dynamic Growing Solutions’ Marketing Director and Client Outreach Coordinator, but he also curates the communications between DGS and every one of our clients: big and small. Away from the desk, Jake enjoys fishing and hiking in his native Black Hills.
Seth Baumgartner
Horticultural consultant
Seth has worked in research, production, management, and consultation within the horticultural field for nearly 10 years. Possessing degrees in horticulture, urban agriculture, and crop sciences with an emphasis in sustainable agriculture from the University of Idaho, Seth has worked with alfalfa, winter wheat, peas, and cannabis throughout his career. While working as a cultivation technician at a large-scale cannabis production facility in Washington state, he has consulted for several indoor and outdoor cannabis growers in California, Oregon, and Washington to help improve production facilities in all growing conditions. He is approaching his 50th cannabis crop. Seth has also been a professional whitewater guide since 2013 and takes guests on class III-IV trips on several rivers in Idaho. Outside of work he spends time skiing, snowboarding, hunting, fishing, and rafting with his family.
Travis Dewes
Content manager
After working in the fishing and brewing industry for many years, Travis made a transition to managing a local distillery and writing for a local newspaper in Rapid City. He has degrees in History, English, French, and religious studies from South Dakota State University. In his free time, Travis enjoys fishing, hiking and skiing in the Black Hills.
Dynamic Growing Solutions aims to assist producers with the development and implementation of innovative, sustainable, and effective growing techniques and business practices. We will help anytime between pre and post production for the betterment of the cannabis industry as a whole.
— Dynamic Growing Solutions’ mission statement
Dynamic Growing Solutions acknowledges with respect that its headquarters is situated within the ancestral territory of the Seven Council Fires (Oceti Sakowin), an alliance that consists of the Santee, Yankton, and Teton Lakota peoples. We recognize the historical context surrounding these lands and we are working to build and fortify relationships with Native Americans that continue to live, work, and worship in these lands.