PIXIE CRUNCH

magical apple
tart, sweet fairy spell lingers
fall, please never end

Look for PIXIE CRUNCH apples in your box this week along with Asian pears, Caraflex cabbage, Delicata squash, and sweet potatoes, plus more Ohio fruits and veggies. Try out the Delicata Squash, Apple and Chorizo Galette recipe below!

Check out our featured vendor, EQUINOX BOTANICALS this week!
Equinox Botanicals herbal remedy SALE here. 

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

And here are our short date specials!

Scallions

vs. Rapscallions...

One is peppery and spicy, and the other has a milder flavor and is in your box this week! Scallions for all YB rapscallions!

Look for SCALLIONS in your box this week along with lettuce, Asian pears, and gala apples, plus more Ohio fruits and veggies. Plus try out the Easy Slow Cooker Potato Soup recipe below!

Check out Berlin Natural Bakery, our featured vendor this week!
On sale here.

And here are our short date specials!

Family, we are always talking with our farmers and many have expressed this same sentiment: Because we have had this relentless rainy cool weather, some of the plants are not doing well. Discoloration and "slimy-ness" are directly attributable to this weather. 

In the fall with the decreasing amount of sun intensity the plants are not as resilient. Growth slows and bad actors start to make their move, attacking in the form of disease that thrives without the sun to maintain a dry and UV rich environment. 

We are always actively keeping the produce fresh, but also always want to keep you in the loop--just having some of the usual fall bouts with Sweet Mother Nature.

It's potato soup; it's so good; it means fall is here and you need a place for your scallions to rest atop a bed of creamy potatoes with pancetta. And you need some bread from Berlin Natural Bakery to go with it! 

How does your garlic grow?

...at local farms by growers who care,
with pretty plants all in a row.

Look for GARLIC in your box this week along with lettuce and honeycrisp apples, plus more Ohio fruits and veggies, and try out the Pesto Tofu Pasta recipe below!

Check out our CLEVELAND VENDORS this week, below!

Stutzman Farm grains on sale here.

And here are our short date specials!

SPOTLIGHT ON CLEVELAND VENDORS--check them out!

Miceli's Dairy
Cleveland Tofu
Broken Rocks Cafe
Randy's Pickles
Ohio City Pasta
The Olive Scene
Cleveland Ketchup

It's better with butter baby...

...squash so cute you'll go awww when you open your box.
 

Our growers have a passion for making high quality food a reality.
We have a passion for helping local farms "find their people," AND for getting awesome food to people every week when it's freshest.

Thanks to you, our growers can focus
on keeping their farms full of beautiful food to share.

Foodshed = beautiful

Look for butter baby squash in your box this week along with sugar cube melons, peppers, mini pac choi, and table grapes, plus more Ohio fruits and veggies, and try out the Stuffed-with-Goodness Butter Baby Squash recipe below!

Check out our featured vendor this week:
Stutzman Farms!

Erie Bone Broth on sale here.
And here are our short date specials!

Honeycrisp LOVE...

You just can't help it.
 

Just like you can't look at that picture without a little mouth watering going on! We don't blame you--honeycrisp season is something to get excited about.
 

Look for HONEYCRISP APPLES in your box this week along with pears, garlic, peppers, zucchini, umami seasoning blend, and an assortment of Ohio veggies, and try out the Dump-and-Bake Boneless Baked Pork Chops with Apples recipe below!

Check out our featured vendor this week:
Epiphany Mushroom Co. (ON SALE!)
(Every farm share box includes an Epiphany Umami Seasoning Packet)

Erie Bone Broth on sale here.
And here are our short date specials!

A NOTE FOR OUR YELLOWBIRDIES

Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback--it's the only way that we know what shape the food is arriving in. There are many challenges in making sure you are getting top-quality produce and we are constantly figuring out how best to order, pack, and deliver your food...it's constantly changing based on weather, produce varieties, timing etc. Just when we think we have a certain thing figured out, it will change and we have to adjust on the fly. It's the world of fresh, local food and we will stop at nothing to make sure you have access to it! Please keep communicating, and we will keep doing all we can to bring you the best produce Ohio has to offer!

Asian pears...

In all farm shares.

Look for PEARS in your box this week along with an assortment of Ohio veggies,and a Ginger Asian Pear Salad recipe below!

Check out our featured vendor this week and their super nutritious broths:
.Erie Bone Broth (On sale this week!)

And here are our short date specials!

Asian pears are everyone's favorite cousin to Bartlett. They have perfect, glowing skin, and don't get so splotchy. Bartlett is also jealous of its cousin's crisp delicate crunch, since it can be a softie. Try this salad with Asian pears on a bed of Yellowbird greens, boasting unique flavors to wake up your palate. These pears will make your salad feel fancy!  

INGREDIENTS

Dressing

• 1 T ginger, grated, or substitute dried

• 1 tsp Caribbean Jerk rub seasoning

• 1 tsp Asian mustard or substitute sweet hot mustard

• 1/2 tsp ground white pepper

• 2 T rice vinegar or substitute white balsamic vinegar

• 2 T maesil (Korean tea, or substitute green tea)

• 1.5 T sesame oil or substitute olive oil

• 1 T mirin (Japanese rice wine, or substitute extra white rice vinegar)

• 1 T soy sauce

Fruit and Vegetables

• 1 large Asian pear, cut into 0.25 in thick slices

• 1 large cucumber, sliced

• 3 – 4 scallions, greens and whites sliced thinly

• 1 red chili, sliced, or substitute yummy peppers

Leafy greens

• 1/2 large bunch minari, cut into bite sized pieces (water parsley, can sub flat parsley or celery)

• 1/3 head romaine, cut into large pieces

• 3 large handfuls spring mix 

Finishing

• Toasted sesame seeds

INSTRUCTIONS

• In a small bowl add the ginger, Caribbean seasoning, mustard and pepper. Mash together until the mustard is dissolved and the pepper and seasoning are well combined. Add the remaining dressing ingredients mixing well. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Set aside.

• In a medium mixing bowl toss the fruit and vegetables with 2 T of the dressing. Toss until everything is well coated. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes along with the dressing until needed.

• Toss the leafy greens with 2.5 T of the dressing to just coat them. Divide among plates and top with some of the marinated fruit and vegetables. Drizzle a little extra dressing over everything. Top each plate with some sesame seeds.

• Serve with bread and some pork or lamb chops!

Good golly, it's cauli...

Just wait until you feel that long-awaited cauli squeak between your teeth! If you're rockin' and rollin' and CAN'T WAIT to dig in the minute you get your box.
Do we live in an awesome state of OHIO BOUNTY or what?

Look for CAULIFLOWER in your box this week along with an assortment of Ohio veggies,and a simple cauli pasta recipe below!

Check out our featured vendor this week and their amazing pasta:
.Ohio City Pasta (On sale this week!)

And here are our short date specials!

Feast like royalty...

with grapes at your table

Don't worry, it was our solemn YB duty to test them and they are DELICIOUS. One of us literally said, "Now THIS is what a grape is supposed to taste like!" 

Do we live in an awesome state of OHIO BOUNTY or what? You might say we eat like kings! Now if there was just someone to fan us and feed us grapes...

Look for these purple blue beauties in your box this week along with an assortment of Ohio veggies below!

Check out our featured vendor this week and their amazing kombucha and fermented veggies: Divine Living (Save on a kombucha 6-pack!)

Here is our Simple Times mixer sale and our short date specials!

IT'S REVOLUTIONARY

Turkey that tastes...like

turkey.

Green Acres Organics

DON'T LOOK NOW...

there's a pear in your farm share

Check out our featured vendor this week:Sweet Grass Dairy! (Recipebelow)

And here are our short date specials!

PLUM FULL

of goodness.

It's a healthy version of a sweet tart. It's an impossible purple red. It's plum(b) good!
Plums are also plum full of Vitamin C, anti-aging phenols, antioxidants, soluble fiber, with the blood pressure benefits of anthocyanin. 

Your box is plum full of PLUMS, peppers, nectarines, zucchini, sweet corn, hydro head lettuce this week! See complete list of possible local produce below.

Check out our featured vendor this week: Simple Times Mixers (on SALE here)!

Also visit our short date specials!

CHICKEN IS BOK!! OK, BACK.
(Psst...all cuts, including liver, hearts, and feet)

There's something for everyone here!