It’s starting to feel like fall outside, and it’s starting to feel like fall inside (the boxes).
When we start to see new mixes of hot peppers, sweet peppers, cabbages, and beans rolling in on a regular basis we know it’s time to start thinking about another season shift.
That shift will bring with it...apples of all kinds and of course cider. Fall and Winter squash, the muscles from brussels, cabbage, nice fall greens like spinach and lettuce mix again, and of course potatoes and sweet potatoes.
We are having a blast each week bringing you the best that Ohio has to offer but there are always places that we fall short and have tried to find some solutions...what I am referring to in this particular instance is “Oil and Vinegar”!!
We have finally found intentionally sourced Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar!!!!
**will be available for purchase later this week
The Olive Scene is owned by the mother of one of our mushroom producers...Broadcap Farm.
I got into a conversation with her about how olive oil, just like almost every agricultural product is very rarely ever what is advertised on the bottle. She began to tell me about how her mother works with growers and producers from around the world each year to find the best olive oil and vinegar that are available from each harvest etc.
I immediately ordered a 2.5 gallon jug for myself, but the best news is that it’s available in retail sizes that we are going to be bringing to you from now on. We will start with their top 3 sellers of both the oil and vinegar and then branch out from there.
For me, this is another item that I am now able to source for my family and not worry about the quality or the sustainability of the farming practices. We use olive oil everyday and it was always one of those things that I was worried about because quite frankly, I just don’t trust anything coming out of the big box grocery store.
As we talk about transitioning seasons, start to think about the winter and what that looks like for us. Thanksgiving and Christmas might be different for you and your family than it has been in the past...maybe the gatherings will be smaller? With that in mind, we will be offering “half turkey’s” this year.
Because our farms have the turkeys on pasture, and because it is not an industrialized, homogenized system, a bunch of these birds get HUGE...like over 30lbs huge! We will know shortly what our final numbers are in terms of what we have available, but plan on reserving them with 2 thoughts in mind.
1. What do you need for Thanksgiving day?
2. What do you need for other times of the winter? As a family, we probably will cook 3-4 birds throughout the winter as it provides SO MUCH stinking food for SO MANY meals.
Ya’ll, it time for uncle Benji to tell you how proud I am of everyone. None of this stuff (new items, new SWAG, contests, podcasts, a sustainable foodshed) is possible without your decision to build a new FOODSHED.
**REMEMBER...the “foodshed” is you and me...it’s us. It’s the group of people, in a geographic region, that are sourcing their food intentionally from as close and as clean as possible. This is not a “luxury” item that we are just deciding we like better than whatever other choices are out there. THIS IS ONE OF THE SOLUTIONS to reclaiming YOUR HEALTH, and the HEALTH OF THE PLANET. (which, by the way, are not so separate things).
KEEP IT UP!
YBFS 2020!! Making Yellow Great Again! (so sorry, had to poke a little fun in this election season)
**obviously politics is a polarizing subject that people take great offense to...the previous comment was not intended to do anything but make fun of both sides of the aisle
