diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index 72431d5a..57cc694d 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -39,7 +39,12 @@ outputs:
         - appdirs >=1.4.4
         - cachey >=0.2.1
         - certifi >=2020.6.20
-        - dask >=2.15.0,!=2.28.0
+        # Do not depend on base "dask" package since it pulls
+        # in the distributed dependency
+        # conda-forge doesn't have the dask-array subpackage
+        # so depend on cytoolz and numpy manually
+        - dask-core>=2.15.0,!=2.28.0
+        - cytoolz >=0.11.0
         - imageio >=2.20,!=2.22.1
         - jsonschema >=3.2.0
         - lazy_loader >=0.2