mandarins for you

a feast for your eyes

+ Vitamin C for your insides

Happy holidays from YB!
We have your Christmas ORANGE covered, in all share boxes this week.
(See holiday delivery schedule below)

In your farm share featuring MANDARIN ORANGES, Ohio produce will help your festivities be joyous AND delicious.

festive ruby red

a feast for your eyes

+ Vitamin C for your insides

Fend off scurvy this winter like the pirate y'are! We can help with grapefruit picked just for you. A gentle pink blush on the outside, then cut and see the brilliant pink inside. This means lots of vits coming your way like beta carotene and lycopene, besides 64% of your C for the day! 

Happy holidays from YB! We have your Christmas essentials HERE.
(See holiday delivery schedule below)

Shop prepared items and entrees from local chefs here.

In your farm share featuring RUBY RED grapefruit, your box is PACKED with local produce battling it out for most festive. This week we have...

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!!

bok bok choy?

chickens everywhere approve


shop local, eat local

Plentiful, abundant, blessed. 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! 

We have your Christmas essentials HERE.

Sharing the LOCAL = sharing the LOVE!! 

In your farm share featuring baby BOK CHOY, your box is PACKED with red and green local produce battling it out for most festive. This week we have...

On the red side: Gala apples, red onions, and red cabbage
On the green side: Baby bok choy, celery, Italian flat parsley, hydro head lettuce
On the sidelines cheering: Orange carrots, Kennebec potatoes, Carnival squash, Asian pears, and garlic

Team Yellowbird for the win!!

'tis the season

celebrate with green pepps and red onions

shop local, eat local

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.
 

Check out our featured vendor this week:
Minerva Dairy!

a rainbow of veggie flavors

they dig 'em
so that you can dig 'em

                   Thankful for our growers

                                               Thankful for you

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! 
 

Try out the Honey Glazed Rainbow Carrots recipe below, just in time for Turkey Day!

Check out Local Millers, our featured producer, here.

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.
 

INGREDIENTS

• 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

• sea salt and pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

• 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!

sweet potatoes in your box

they dig 'em
so that you can dig 'em

                   Thankful for our growers           

                                         
                     Thankful for you

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! 
 

Try out the Sweet Potato Pie Recipe below, just in time for Turkey Day!

Check out Turkeyfoot Creek Creamery, our featured producer, here.

Go here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS (including Thanksgiving-style dishes for delivery during Thanksgiving week)!

"All Blue" Potatoes

Purple blue, the whole way through

why blue potatoes?
when they're cut, surprise inside
you'll see, endless fun

Look for "All Blue" Potatoes from Wayward Seed Farm in your full-of-goodness farm box this week. Try out the Delicious All Blue Mashed Potatoes Recipe below!

Check out Shagbark Seed & Mill, our featured producer, here.

Go here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS like Beef Bolognese from Chef Brian at Food Eaze, and Chef Meagan's Chicken or Tofu Picatta! (including Thanksgiving-style dishes for delivery during Thanksgiving week)

Yellowbird has your THANKSGIVING ESSENTIALS here!

Be sure to place your Thanksgiving orders THIS WEEK for your:
1) turkey (free half gallon cider with purchase of whole turkey!) and brine mix
2) red, gold, all blue, purple sun or sweet POTATOES
3) squash, orange or rainbow carrots, greens, fermented and other veggies
3) CHEESE, nuts and charcuterie SALAMI
4) frozen items like rolls, green beans, cranberries, pie crusts, and
5) any cooking and baking staples like butter, chicken broth, EGGS, brown sugar, pumpkin puree, spices, or cream to be sure to have them in time for Thanksgiving meal prep! (Anyone with a Thursday home delivery or truck pick up will be moved to Wednesday during Thanksgiving week, so that's just the day before!). 

perfect sweetness, supreme texture

What's cool about Bosc pears? They retain their texture when ripe, but are still super sweet even when not (completely) ripe. Great for baking, sautéing, or just monching on! Plus, they can stand up by themselves for fancy, overambitious desserts. 

Look for Bosc pears from Bauman Orchard in your box this week along with Ohio fruits and veggies of all sorts. Try out the Balsamic Braised Beef with Pears below!

Check out KREMA NUT COMPANY, our featured producer, here!

Go here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS.

 BEEF IS BACK!

(Mouthwatering Bone-IN Ribeye Steak pictured above)

About Tall Grass Ranch:
Brian is dedicated to farming the right way; with sustainability as his driving force. All the cattle raised on this small farm in Amesville are 100% grass-fed and finished; never receiving any processed feed or growth hormones. 

IT'S DELICATA

CUZ I LIKE YOU

Is it cool that I said all that?

Is it chill that you're in my head?

'Cause I know that it's delicat(a)

("Delicate" by Taylor Swift)

Look for delicat(a) squash from Hardin Creek Farm in your box this week along with Ohio fruits and veggies of all sorts. Try out the Crockpot White Bean Chicken Parmesan Soup with Delicata Squash below!

Check out BUNKER HILL CHEESE, our featured producer, here!

Go here for PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS.
 

IT'S CIDER TIME

We're sending you cider. Hope you don't mind!
(Go ahead, share the love with someone special!)

Look for OHIO APPLE CIDER from Grobe Fruit Farm in your box this week along with a cornucopia of Ohio fruits and veggies including red cabbage, garlic, Kennebec potatoes, Bosc pears, scarlet curly kale, and sweet potato squash. Try out the Apple Cider Donut Cake recipe below!

Check out BONHOMIE ACRES and their phenomenal 2024 syrup run!

Go to PREPARED MEALS from local CHEFS here.
Find Equinox Botanicals herbal remedies ON SALE here and MacKenzie Creamery Ohio Goat Cheese ON SALE here. 

And here are our short date specials!

ACORN AVENGER

With superhero nutrition and green to orange skin changing power like Incredible Hulk's alter ego, we present to you...the acorn squash.

Green with some orange is your acorn squash's perfect happy place. One cup contains 37% of your vitamin C for the day! A superhero squash full of B vitamins and magnesium, look for it in your box this week along with a cornucopia of Ohio fruits and veggies. Try out the Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash recipe below!

Check out our featured ALL THINGS EGGS vendors below!

Equinox Botanicals herbal remedy SALE here. 

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

And here are our short date specials!

A box without hinges, key or lid, and yet, golden treasure inside is hid...

EGGSES, PRECIOUS!

Lovely, packed-with-nutrition eggses from pasture-raised chickens and ducks at Sweet Grass, Copia, and Bojacal farms--our featured vendors this week. Available a la carte or for chicken eggs, as a subscription (weekly, biweekly and monthly options available). These are the best deal in town! Go to our Insta page for more!

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