Welcome the first week of your food for twenty twenty one!
I found a fun book this weekend that I want to use to highlight some products in the coming weeks/months.
Let’s start with something we are getting this week from Bradwood Farm up by Ashland, OH. They have been a longstanding partner of the Yellowbird and each week they pull their delivery van in on Tuesdays at about 2pm...they are always excited to show us the plants they have grown for you and this week is no exception.
Dandelion Greens
“Dandelion’s name comes from a Latin word meaning ‘tooth of a lion’, and was given to describe the plant’s jaffed long leaves.”
“The young leaves of the plant lend a hint of bitterness to a green salad...as the warm season progresses the more bitter the foliage becomes, making it more suitable for wilting or using in soups and stews.”
“The dandelion has always been prized for its medicinal use. It is used as a mild laxative, a diuretic and to aid digestion, and is very high in vitamins A and C, and high in iron and calcium.”
REMEMBER: As whole-food, plant-forward eaters, we are literally taking our medicine each day depending on what we decide to eat. Your choices for this new year are either connecting you to yourself and to the earth and to healing, OR they are moving you away from that connectivity.
Since this email is going only to those of you that have already chosen to stay CONNECTED, I am preaching to the choir, I know.
Just keep at it. I know that sometimes our food choices can feel like they are repetitive or bland (especially in the winter), but the earth is giving us exactly what we need at exactly the right time. Keep treating yourself well these deep winter months and I promise you that Asparagus and Strawberries will be back around again soon!
NEWS AND NOTES:
Last week for some reason, our software “disabled” about 150 items from our store. If you usually buy things like our
-Creamline milk in glass bottles
-Ridiculously good salsa
you can continue to do so!
Chef Meagan continues to wow us with her weekly meals, soups, and protein portions. She is only around for another 5 weeks and then she is off to have a baby...load up on soups you can freeze NOW
We have added LOTS of VEGAN, GLUTEN-FREE, and KETO items recently and have even grouped them together under the tab “Special Diet” so that you can easily find them.
Spoiler Alerts for 2021...Shipping, Smoker, Farm Dinners, and Celebrity Chefs!!
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*A foodshed is the geographic region that produces the food for a particular population. The term is used to describe a region of food flows, from the area where it is produced, to the place where it is consumed, including: the land it grows on, the route it travels, the markets it passes through, and the tables it ends up on. "Foodshed" is described as a "socio-geographic space: human activity embedded in the natural integument of a particular place."[1] A foodshed is analogous to a watershed in that foodsheds outline the flow of food feeding a particular population, whereas watersheds outline the flow of water draining to a particular location. Through drawing from the conceptual ideas of the watershed, foodsheds are perceived as hybrid social and natural constructs.
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