2024 Box #51

festive ruby red

a feast for your eyes

+ Vitamin C for your insides


Fend off scurvy this winter like the pirate y'are! We can help with grapefruit picked just for you. A gentle pink blush on the outside, then cut and see the brilliant pink inside. This means lots of vits coming your way like beta carotene and lycopene, besides 64% of your C for the day! 

Happy holidays from YB! We have your Christmas essentials HERE.
(See holiday delivery schedule below)

Shop prepared items and entrees from local chefs 
here.

In your farm share featuring RUBY RED grapefruit, your box is PACKED with local produce battling it out for most festive. This week we have...

On the red side: Evercrisp apples, red potatoes, and ruby red grapefruit

On the green side: hydro head lettuce
On the sidelines cheering: Rainbow carrots, mandarin oranges, Shiitake mushrooms, yellow storage onions, and BLACKBERRY PIE

Team Yellowbird for the win!!

Spiced Honey and Grapefruit-Glazed Ham

This crispy, sweet yet tangy ham will be a highlight of your holiday! Picture this: Caramelized honey with a hint of winter spice and a grapefruit glaze frozen in time over perfectly done ham. Guests drooling. Dog whining. Children digging in with gusto and adults digging in like children. The perfect holiday scene. God bless us every one! 

2024 Box #50

bok bok choy?

chickens everywhere approve


shop local, eat local


Plentiful, abundant, blessed. December is time to shop local, eat local, and share the hard work of growers, producers, and foodies from all over Central Ohio with others! Refer a friend who places an order and YOU get $10, and your FRIEND gets $10 to spend on anything in the store! 

We have your Christmas essentials HERE.

Sharing the LOCAL = sharing the LOVE!! 

In your farm share featuring baby BOK CHOY, your box is PACKED with red and green local produce battling it out for most festive. This week we have...


On the red side: Gala apples, red onions, and red cabbage
On the green side: Baby bok choy, celery, Italian flat parsley, hydro head lettuce
On the sidelines cheering: Orange carrots, Kennebec potatoes, Carnival squash, Asian pears, and garlic

Team Yellowbird for the win!!

Bok Choy and Mushroom Tart

Try eating the bok choy, red onions and mushrooms in your box as a simple tart, framed by a unique quinoa crust. Serve with some salsa and creme fraiche, while the aroma of bacon and coffee lingers  during your meal, whatever time of day you serve it. The chickens who laid the eggs want you to know: bok, bok, choy!

2024 Box #49

'tis the season

celebrate with green pepps and red onions

shop local, eat local


What if you shopped ONLY local this December? It might seem impossible, but at YB we have all the food groups you need: dairy/eggs, veggies, fruits, grains, and meats! (Plus fun prepared chef items, breads, canned and frozen goods, and convenience items!) Take a look around our store at yellowbirdfs.com--there may be something new that you've missed! Click "shop now" to see all our featured vendors, and check out our subscribe and save options available for store items you won't have to remember at the brick and mortar (and bag up yourself) every week. Your YB delivery might be just the thing to save your sanity this holiday season!

December is time to shop local, eat local, and share the hard work of growers, producers, and foodies from all over Central Ohio with others! Refer a friend who places an order and YOU get $10, and your FRIEND gets $10 to spend on anything in the store! 

Sharing the LOCAL = sharing the LOVE!! 

                

Your farm share will contain the LAST of the green peppers available from our growers for a while! Enjoy the festive green pepps with your red onions, orange carrots, hydro head lettuce, and more...a festive variety of fruit and veggie colors and flavors in your box.
 

Check out our featured vendor this week:
Minerva Dairy!

Pepper Steak

Red onions and green peppers come together in this festive pepper steak meal with delicious grass-fed ribeye, available from Tall Grass Ranch. 'Tis the season for sizzling steak, juicy peppers and crispy onions! 

2024 Box #48

a rainbow of veggie flavors

they dig 'em
so that you can dig 'em

 

 

                   Thankful for our growers

                                               Thankful for you

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving, from all of us at YB! 
 

When you unpack your farm share box full of:

RAINBOW CARROTS, Evercrisp apples, OHIO APPLE CIDER, Purple Sun potatoes, SHALLOTS, butternut squash, and more... 

...it's a surprise gift from us to you! 
 

Try out the Honey Glazed Rainbow Carrots recipe below, just in time for Turkey Day!

 

Check out Local Millers, our featured producer, here.

Rainbow Honey Glazed Carrots

Adapted from Salty Side Dish
 

Need a beautiful, effortless side dish for your guests on Thursday? Search no more! This rainbow of veggie flavors will save you from turkey day exhaustion. And impress your family and friends, who already love you anyway.
 

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Preheat oven to 375. Grease a baking pan or rimmed baking sheet and place carrots in a single layer.

  • In a small bowl, add melted butter and honey. Mix well.

  • Drizzle honey over colorful carrots. Sprinkle with garlic powder, thyme, salt, and pepper.

  • Cover green tops loosely with foil to prevent them from burning.Bake carrots for a baking time of about 25 minutes, flipping kaleidoscope carrots over (tongs work great) halfway through.

  • Serve with your Thanksgiving turkey and mashed potatoes. Enjoy the rainbow bounty!

2024 Box #47

sweet potatoes in your box

they dig 'em
so that you can dig 'em

 

 

                   Thankful for our growers           

                                         
                     Thankful for you

 

When is Thanksgiving like Christmas?

When you unpack your farm share box full of:

Sweet potatoes, Bosc pears, PUMPKIN PIE (not sweet potato pie), carnival squash, orange carrots, broccoli, yellow onions, spinach and more... 

...it's a surprise gift from us to you! 
 

Try out the Sweet Potato Pie Recipe below, just in time for Turkey Day!

 

Check out Turkeyfoot Creek Creamery, our featured producer, here.

Go
here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS (including Thanksgiving-style dishes for delivery during Thanksgiving week)!

Sweet Potato Pie

Adapted from Pioneer Woman

Easy as pumpkin pie, but with sweet potatoes. And bourbon! Not responsible for how much your family loves it--they'll want to come over every year! 

2024 Box #46

"All Blue" Potatoes

Purple blue, the whole way through


why blue potatoes?
when they're cut, surprise inside
you'll see, endless fun

Look for "All Blue" Potatoes from Wayward Seed Farm in your full-of-goodness farm box this week. Try out the Delicious All Blue Mashed Potatoes Recipe below!

Check out Shagbark Seed & Mill, our featured producer, here.

Go
here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS like Beef Bolognese from Chef Brian at Food Eaze, and Chef Meagan's Chicken or Tofu Picatta! (including Thanksgiving-style dishes for delivery during Thanksgiving week)

Yellowbird has your THANKSGIVING ESSENTIALS here!


Be sure to place your Thanksgiving orders THIS WEEK for your:
1) turkey (free half gallon cider with purchase of whole turkey!) and brine mix
2) red, gold, all blue, purple sun or sweet POTATOES
3) squash, orange or rainbow carrots, greensfermented and other veggies
3) CHEESE, nuts and charcuterie SALAMI
4) frozen items like rolls, green beans, cranberriespie crusts, and
5) any cooking and baking staples like butter, chicken broth, EGGS, brown sugar, pumpkin pureespices, or cream to be sure to have them in time for Thanksgiving meal prep! (Anyone with a Thursday home delivery or truck pick up will be moved to Wednesday during Thanksgiving week, so that's just the day before!). 

Delicious All Blue Mashed Potatoes

Make your potatoes a beautiful shade of purple blue, without dye and without even trying. Prepared just like traditional gold or white potatoes, these will surprise and delight your Thanksgiving guests (without even trying!). Here's a simple recipe to help you breathe a sigh of relief during your final meal prep. You have bigger things to worry about, like that needy turkey in the oven! 

2024 Box #45

perfect sweetness, supreme texture

 

What's cool about Bosc pears? They retain their texture when ripe, but are still super sweet even when not (completely) ripe. Great for baking, sautéing, or just monching on! Plus, they can stand up by themselves for fancy, overambitious desserts. 

 


Look for Bosc pears from Bauman Orchard in your box this week along with Ohio fruits and veggies of all sorts. Try out the 
Balsamic Braised Beef with Pears below!

 

Check out KREMA NUT COMPANY, our featured producer, here!

Go here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS.


 BEEF IS BACK!

(Mouthwatering Bone-IN Ribeye Steak pictured above)

About Tall Grass Ranch:
Brian is dedicated to farming the right way; with sustainability as his driving force. All the cattle raised on this small farm in Amesville are 100% grass-fed and finished; never receiving any processed feed or growth hormones. 

Balsamic Braised Beef with Pears

Bosc pears hold up well, and their sweetness will "pear well" with the tender beef in this perfectly savory blend of satisfying fall flavors. Sliced and braised, these pears will make the meal. Pear it with a salad or your veggie of choice, and some crusty bread! 

2024 Box #45

IT'S DELICATA

CUZ I LIKE YOU

 

Is it cool that I said all that?

Is it chill that you're in my head?

'Cause I know that it's delicat(a)

 

("Delicate" by Taylor Swift)


Look for delicat(a) squash from Hardin Creek Farm in your box this week along with Ohio fruits and veggies of all sorts. Try out the 
Crockpot White Bean Chicken Parmesan Soup with Delicata Squash below!

 

Check out BUNKER HILL CHEESE, our featured producer, here!

Go
here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS.
 

Crockpot White Bean Chicken Parmesan Soup with Delicata Squash

Delicata=delicate skin. Therefore, a person can eat it. And add it to soup without peeling! Here's a delectable squash soup for the ages, a soothing and filling weeknight way to use the delicata in your life! Things may be delicate in the world of teen romance, but you can always trust your delicata faithfully making its way to you in your YB farm share. If you cook this while listening to Taylor Swift, bonus points!

2024 Box #43

IT'S CIDER TIME

We're sending you cider. Hope you don't mind!
(Go ahead, share the love with someone special!)

 

Look for OHIO APPLE CIDER from Grobe Fruit Farm in your box this week along with a cornucopia of Ohio fruits and veggies including red cabbage, garlic, Kennebec potatoes, Bosc pears, scarlet curly kale, and sweet potato squash. Try out the Apple Cider Donut Cake recipe below!

 

Check out BONHOMIE ACRES and their phenomenal 2024 syrup run!

Go to PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS 
here.
Find Equinox Botanicals herbal remedies ON SALE
here and MacKenzie Creamery Ohio Goat Cheese ON SALE here

And here are 
our short date specials!

Apple Cider Donut Cake

This is apple cider donuts, elevated. Simple yet fancy, moist yet crisp, this cake will get devoured whether it travels to a fall football game or an autumnal tea party. Now you can be a part of the apple cider donut action like all the super cool Ohio apple farms around you!  

2024 Box #42

ACORN AVENGER

With superhero nutrition and green to orange skin changing power like Incredible Hulk's alter ego, we present to you...the acorn squash.

 

Green with some orange is your acorn squash's perfect happy place. One cup contains 37% of your vitamin C for the day! A superhero squash full of B vitamins and magnesium, look for it in your box this week along with a cornucopia of Ohio fruits and veggies. Try out the Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash recipe below!


Check out our featured ALL THINGS EGGS vendors below!

Equinox Botanicals herbal remedy SALE
here

Feast your eyes on delicious chef-made meals this week 
here.

And here are 
our short date specials!

A box without hinges, key or lid, and yet, golden treasure inside is hid...

EGGSES, PRECIOUS!


Lovely, packed-with-nutrition eggses from pasture-raised chickens and ducks at Sweet Grass, Copia, and Bojacal farms--our featured vendors this week. Available a la carte or for chicken eggs, as a subscription (weekly, biweekly and monthly options available). These are the best deal in town! Go to our Insta page for more!

Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

Our superhero acorn squash contains vitamins B1, B6, folate, magnesium, potassium, manganese, along with plenty of fiber and vitamin C! Let this green and orange avenger protect you from any immune system attack this fall. And stuffing it with plenty of sausage won't hurt your cause either.