614 feast

The Yellowbird Foodshed co-founder Benji Ballmer


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The Yellowbird Foodshed co-founder Benji Ballmer

They collaboratively collect food from Ohio growers, a foodshed is the geographic region that your food comes from. Where it’s produced, where it’s consumed, as well as the route that it takes to get there. The Yellowbird Foodshed is based in Mount Vernon, Ohio and they’re going into their 10th year. Who grew your food?

Local food near me

What defines local? Countless restaurants claim to be local but actually use food sourced from all over the world. A restaurant might say they’re local, but they’re using the same food from Sysco or US Foods. Top 3 Central Ohio Restaurants

High quality, farm fresh food makes it hard to go out to eat. Going out to eat can be very average especially compared to the freshest, highest quality, local produce and meats.

1 Pizza Nerds in Newark

2 Ghostwriter Public House in Johnstown

3 Harvest Bar & Kitchen

Film feast is the best representation of food in a movie or tv show. Benji’s answer is Meet Joe Black and the cake scene. Benji’s favorite snack is homemade popcorn. He’ll take Ohio butter and maple syrup and mix those together, pour it over local Ohio popcorn, and a little bit of salt too. Sweet and salty, sounds like a delicious snack to me. Top 3 Ohio popcorn producers are Shagbark, Till, and Clutter.

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