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!

Sugar Cube Melon

=Canteloupe to the Cube Power

Canteloupe is spelled funny, and doesn't look like much from the outside. But slice into these sugar cube cantaloupes for cubed flavor and superb color. Cut in strips or...cube them. Add them to a smoothie. Freeze some popsicles for adults. But make sure you get a load of this fabulous summer flavor in your farm share this week!

Look for SUGAR CUBES, blackberries, yellow squash, hydro lettuce, green beans, cherry and slicer tomatoes, and bell peppers ALL IN YOUR BOX this week! Isn't summer sweet to the sweet-th power?? See complete list of possible local produce below.

Check out our featured vendor this week: Minerva Dairy!

ON SALE: LITT Kombucha and our short date specials!

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

There's something for everyone here!

blackberries singing
this is your moment to fly
as a Yellowbird

This line from a seven-year-old is pretty deep:
"You really appreciate the hard work when you love something."

We LOVE these blackberries.
But at Yellowbird we also LOVE what we do--
we appreciate being able to work hard to get you the best local, quality food.
And we appreciate the hard work of our growers, box packers, and drivers! 

Look for BLACKBERRIES, sweet corn, candy onion, hydro lettuce, green beans, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, nectarines, peaches ALL IN YOUR BOX this week! Isn't summer grand?? See complete list of possible local produce below.

Check out our featured vendor this week: LITT Kombucha ON SALE!
(Life In The Tea!)

DEEP DISCOUNTS IN JULY: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie) and our short date specials!

It's CORN
A big lump with knobs
It has the juice (It has the juice)
I can't imagine a more beautiful thing (Woo)
It's corn
I can tell you all about it
I mean, look at this thing
When I tried it with butter, everything changed

("It's Corn" by Tariq, The Gregory Brothers and Recess Therapy)

One line from this viral ode to corn from a seven-year-old is pretty deep:
"You really appreciate the hard work when you love something."

We LOVE this sweet corn. Best ever.
But at Yellowbird we also LOVE what we do--
we appreciate being able to work hard to get you the best local, quality food.
And we appreciate the hard work of our growers, box packers, and drivers! 

Fun fact: Whether eaten as a grain or vegetable, corn is actually a fruit!
And every individual kernel was pollinated by each stringy tassel. More here. 

Look for SWEET CORN, blackberries, peppers, sugar cube melons, and hydro head lettuce in your farm share this week!
See complete list of possible local produce below.

Try this recipe below: Garlic Butter Chicken with Zucchini and Corn

Check out our featured vendor this week: Randy's Pickles (On SALE here)!

ON SALE this week: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie).

life is peachy keen
so much flavor in one box
all the joy contained 

Look for PEACHES, blackberries, sweet cherries, sweet corn, green peppers, and hydro head lettuce in your farm share this week! (See complete list of possible local produce below)

Try this recipe: Chicken, Peach and Chorizo Fricassee

Check out our featured vendor this week: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie).

plucked right from the vine...

this is why we do what we do.

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." 
-Wendell Berry
 
Black raspberries simply scream OHIO BOUNTY. They are a patriotic red and blue, and found on the roadside and field's edge for all! Thanks for supporting those berry pickers filling your box with goodness! 

It's the way things used to be. It's revolutionary. It's OHIO FEEDING OHIO. 

Look for BLACK RASPBERRIES, blackberries, sweet cherries, sweet corn, zucchini, and cucumbers in your farm share this week! (See complete list of possible local produce below)

Bring these to your 4th of July festivities: Black Raspberry Cheesecake Bars

Check out our featured vendor this week: Pearl Valley Cheese.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FROM ALL OF US AT YELLOWBIRD! 
Have a wonderful holiday!
Truck pick ups are at same times and locations on Thursday the 4th.

blueberries coming your way...

and here's a recipe for you.
 
Blueberry Bread!

Remember, being a part of YELLOWBIRD FOODSHED means you get to:
1. Snag high quality, farm fresh food when it's at its freshest
2. Know your growers and learn about their farming practices
3. Be a part of a community that cares about supporting local food
4. Be one of the first to get veggies when they are in season! Like BLUEBERRIES!

CHERRIES ALSO IN SEASON NOW--ORDER HERE:
Sweet Cherries

It's the way things used to be. It's revolutionary. It's OHIO FEEDING OHIO. 

Look for BLUEBERRIES, sweet cherries, baby bok choy, and yellow squash in your farm share this week! (See complete list of possible local produce below)

Check out our featured vendor this week: Minerva Dairy.

beautiful broccolini

...but what is broccolini?
 
Developed in Japan and growing in fame here, broccolini's stems are as tender and yummy as the florets. A hybrid of broccoli and gai lan (Chinese kale), broccolini cooks up just like regular broccoli, but faster (and with a sweeter finish). Nothing not to like about that! 

green broccolini
your flavor is not teeny
I eat the whole thing
 
Here's a BROCCOLINI pasta recipe for you: 
Oriechette with Broccolini and Sausage recipe.

Remember, being part of YB Foodshed means you get to:
1. Snag high quality, farm fresh food when it's at its freshest
2. Know your growers and learn about their farming practices
3. Be a part of a community that cares about supporting local food
4. Try new veggies that are in season! Like broccolini!

It's the way things used to be. It's revolutionary. It's OHIO FEEDING OHIO. 

Look for BROCCOLINI, Carlton greens, and carrots in your farm share this week! (See complete list of possible local produce in your box below)

Check out our featured vendor this week: NOOMA.

HOO BOY

We have TATSOI.
 
Tatsoi, nicknamed "Vitamin Green," is what you want for dinner! It has more vitamin C than oranges or spinach. It has vitamin A, calcium, folate, beta-carotene, and phytonutrients which have been shown to help prevent cancer and heart disease. 

Shh, we have a secret for you: It's OK to have soup in summer!
Here's a killer Spicy Sweet Potato and Tatsoi Soup recipe to try (see below). ENJOY TATSOI!

Remember, being part of YB Foodshed means you get to:
1. Snag high quality, farm fresh food when it's at its freshest
2. Know your growers and learn about their farming practices
3. Be a part of a community that cares about supporting local food
4. Try new veggies that are in season! Like Tatsoi!

Look for TATSOI, salad mix, asparagus, slicer tomatoes, and green zucchini your farm share this week! (See complete list of local produce in your box below)

Check out our featured vendor this week: Stutzman Farms.

Squash in your box
= welcome back, friend.

pound for pound goodness
the genus Cucurbita
squash to surprise you
 
It's back, and you love it! When your neighbors come knocking on your door with SQUASH in August, remember this moment! Squash is so yummy, so versatile, and so taken for granted in season. Think back to your old friend surprising you back in June when you are "squash ninja-ed" later this summer!

Look for GREEN OR YELLOW CUCURBITA, salad mix, purple kohlrabi, asparagus, slicer tomatoes, and garlic scapes in your farm share this week! And check out Zucchini and yellow squash in the Tex Mex Chicken and Zucchini Skillet recipe below!

Here's a link to our featured vendor this week: Cleveland Ketchup.

MINI PAK CHOI...

...packed with nutrition,
packed in your box.

Small but mighty, mini pak choi is dressed to impress with its crispness and versatility. Whether spelled bok choy, or pak choi, it means "white vegetable." With half the daily nutritional value of vitamins C and K, and 40% of vitamin A, the pak choi you unpack from your box is practically a multivitamin. Add in E, and you can have your CAKE and eat it too, especially when folate, B6, potassium, and calcium also join the party.  

Pak Choi = some of the best produce Ohio has to offer!

Look for PAK CHOI, hydro head lettuce, purple sun tomatoes, asparagus, slicer tomatoes, and Evercrisp apples in your farm share this week! Try out PAK CHOI in the Easy Pak Choi Soup recipe below!

Here's a link to our featured vendor this week: Berlin Natural Bakery.