At the beginning of 2021 we did a survey to see what folk's wanted on our online store. An overwhelming percentage said bulk spices. We did that a few months back AND NOW THEY'RE ON SALE! So, stock up and get all your baking needs for this fall!

This is the time of year when you should be experiencing a bunch of things that make you happy.

Kids are back in school...maybe you yourself are back in school.

Nights are cooler.

College Football.

It's getting darker, faster.

Maybe a leaf on your favorite tree is turning orange?

And APPLES.

Boxes are LOADED this week!

Piles of fruit and veggies!!

I think this would be a great week to make a classic Pico de Gallo

This year continues to yield an enormous amount of amazing fruit.

Each week I continue to be surprised by the peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and now apples that are pouring in.

In years past, we have had very small harvests of all of these and we would have to spread them out thin so that everyone could try at least one. This year, it’s fill the boxes to the brim with amazing fruit!

This is the 33rd delivery of 2021!!

On Monday I was out of town and walked into a Kroger to grab a beverage and saw that the toilet paper aisle was mostly empty shelves. I am VERY rarely in a grocery store so it surprised me a little to see this but it always makes me appreciate that the fact that I don’t have to rely on the grocery store.

I posted this pic on instagram this week.

It’s a picture of Warren Taylor who founded Snowville Creamery. He has since started a mushroom growing business (mostly shiitake), out of Athens, OH.

When we first got started with YB he was still with Snowville, and he had me and my family down to take a tour of the area and just talk about what it was that we were attempting to do.

Last night my 5 year old says to me, “Dad, when it’s marshmallow season again can we get those little ones and put them in hot chocolate?”

Kid gets it.

When we first started this company, we didn’t foresee a couple of the challenges that would face us in that first year. One of the biggest (literally), were the cantaloupes.

We had not yet started working closely enough with the growers to have a say in what they planted each season so we just bought the normal size of everything they grow. Cantaloupes, Water melons, butternut squash, cabbage...all TOO DANG BIG to even fit in our cardboard boxes!!

We have a tradition here at the Yellowbird warehouse.

Whenever the first corn on the cob arrives, we stop what we are doing and we pay homage. We do this by grabbing an ear, pulling back the husk, and eating the corn raw, right off the cob.

Our new employees usually look at us like we are crazy (which we are). But, then they see the look of pure bliss that only the sweetest of corn can deliver.

For those of you keeping score at home, this is week 27 of our deliveries for the year 2021! #halfwaytochristmas

This is our “wheelhouse”, where we start to see so much produce that we can’t even decide what we should buy each week because it is ALL so yummy. #tasty

Cherry Bomb!

There are not many of them available from our local farms but the ones we could find we grabbed...and for this particular week we grabbed a LOT...enjoy!

Ohio Blueberries are ripening fast and furious and we are having them picked, literally as I write this. They require so much time and labor to pick that it’s almost an around the clock job when they ripen. If you don’t get them this week, there should be plenty for everyone in the coming weeks.

Sometimes I need to let you behind the curtain on why our food system is the way it is.

Here at the warehouse we do most of our food pickups on Tuesday. 48 hours prior to that we have been on the phone with somewhere between 20-30 growers for that given week and given them what we think will be a solid order for the week.

Yes, folks, we have come to the end of the line on roots. You have been patient and we thank you for that as we obviously committed ourselves many months ago to many pounds of the sacred roots.

Thanks to everyone for all your support each week as we continue to move through the ups and downs of spring weather and temperatures.

We are just seeing our first flush of asparagus and just like the ramps, we will have just enough for a few people at first, but over the course of the next month, you will get pounds of it no matter what size box you have.

We are closing in on two great holidays...Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day!

For Cinco de Mayo, we partnered with Shagbark to bring you a bag of Corn Cracker Mini to use for your favorite dish. This week I would add these items to my cart to make sure I could at least make nachos.

“Violet, you’re turning violet!

Oompa, Loompa, Loopity, Da
If you like blueberries, you will go far!!

This week we have enough blueberries AND ramps to make sure everybody gets some.

ROOT SLAW!!

What is it??

Rainbow Carrots - 29%

Beets - 29%

Parsnips - 29%

Black Radish - 5%

Chioggia Beets - 5%

Pink Daikon Radish - 3%

This weather has us skeptically hopeful for an awesome spring produce season!

We have an item going in Base’s and Full’s that I have never even actually seen before. They are called Jerusalem Artichoke’s and they look like Ginger and Potato had a baby.

RAMPS!!!

They aren’t quite scallions, they aren’t quite garlic, and they aren’t quite leeks.

BUT, they are a little of all of those things.

They grow wild in the woods and they have one or two flat, broad leaves.

Ramps are only in season for about a month (sometimes less), and both the leaves and the bulbs are edible.

Last week the “Dirty Dozen” list came out.

The dirty dozen are the 12 varieties of produce that were tested to have the highest levels of chemicals on them.

You can check the list at the link, but I wanted to highlight something very important. When I saw this list last Tuesday, I noticed that apples were #5.