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Scared of fennel? Afraid it will sit neglected in the fridge out of fear of failure?
It's your lucky week! Check out these fennel tips!
And be sure to check out ourEaster Essentialspage.
Enjoy spring and more veggies coming soon!
My Sweet Yellowbird Family,
I have not written to you in a while as Rebekah, our trusty customer service gal has been at the helm.
I wanted to check in and do my favorite 2 things.
Thank YOU!! You have continued to build our foodshed in a way that is meaningful and sustainable. You made it through another winter (it seems), and we are just weeks away from fresh foods…think ramps, asparagus, spring onions and garlic…the earth is about to give back fresh life!
Poll The Foodshed!! What are we getting right, wrong, and otherwise? Folks, this is YOUR COMPANY. Guess what we aim to do? Whatever YOU want us to do…which is why we need to know.
Send us your thoughts, questions, comments, and requests.
Reply to this email
Email me directly at benji@yellowbirdfs.com
Call me 419-889-7316
Text me 419-889-7316
Write me a letter or better yet come and see us!
Benji Ballmer
13246 Wooster Rd
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Buying and eating food the way we do is, and always has been, an act of resistance. You might hear me talking about the price of eggs on Instagram but ultimately, this is WAY BIGGER than an egg issue. The mainstream food system is still dirty, corrupt, contaminated, and controlled by monopolies that want us to eat crap that is grown with chemicals, by the hands of people that are underpaid and ignored.
In order to survive and be able to bring you the foods that you buy and eat from your local foodshed, we need you to keep resisting. It can’t be a “once in a while”, or a “shop small business day”, or “when it’s convenient”. Make no mistake, our food is one of THEE MOST important parts of our personal and communal health, and we need to keep it as our top priority when deciding both WHAT to eat, and WHERE we are going to get it from.
Keep doing what you are doing. Tell people about the mission, about our foodshed, and about our continued work to bring food resilience and sustainability to our foodshed…the growers AND the eaters!!
Stay Diligent,
Benji (a fellow member of the Yellowbird Foodshed)
Check out this Tokyo Bekana miso slaw recipe! Add more veggies for ultimate fun--some of the produce arriving in your farm share this week are TOKYO BEKANA, hydro head lettuce, lemons, Evercrisp apples, navel oranges, garlic, and yellow storage onions.
See what we have in your farm share FOR YOU this week: Fruits and veggies like DATES, spinach, Granny Smith apples, endive frisee, navel oranges, orange carrots, hydro head lettuce, and All Blue potatoes!
See what we have in your farm share FOR YOU this week: Fruits and veggies like BEET GREENS, strawberry JAM, Honeycrisp apples, yellow storage onions, rainbow carrots, hydro head lettuce, and sweet potatoes!
Parsnips can play well with others in soups, stir fries, roasted dishes--just don't put them in a carrot cake!
This Simple Black Bean Soup with a Hint of Orange below will give a navel twist to bean soup!
See what's on SALE in the store HERE.
Check out our featured vendor, STUTZMAN FARMS,
and their amazing grains, here!
Mom shouts, "Look!"
And the car comes to
an abrupt, jerking stop.
Dad's eyes grow wide.
"Watercress!" they exclaim,
two voices
heavy with memories.
From Watercress by Andrea Wang
Watercress is a rich, leafy power green, with gram for gram more vitamin C than an orange, more iron than spinach, and more calcium than a glass of milk. Like Popeye's spinach, it packs a punch! Flavorful and versatile raw or cooked (even in soup!), it has a slightly peppery flavor like its cousins arugula and mustard greens. This Vietnamese Beef and Watercress meal below will express the best of watercress!
See what's on SALE in the store HERE.
Check out our featured vendor, BROKEN ROCKS BAKERY,
and their amazing breads, here!
Who else is watching a LOT of football? Those guys surely eat a LOT of spinach. This spinach pepperoni bread will be perfect for game day(s). Recipe below!
See what's NEW in the store HERE.
Check out our featured vendor, BLACK RADISH CREAMERY, and their amazing cheeses, here!
AND GO GREENS--THEY'RE ROOTING FOR YOU IN 2025
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!!
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.
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!
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.
1-2 lbs rainbow carrots peeled and tops cut to 1″
2 tablespoons butter melted
2 tablespoons honey (or sub maple syrup and reduce bake time)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
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!
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!