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Finding Your Future in Food SystemsFinding Your Future in Food Systems with Dhalia B, M Antonio S, and Benji BOriginally recorded as a live webinar on October 22, 2024, this episode features a conversation with three incredible speakers: Dhalia Bumbaca (WellFed Community), M Antonio Silas (University of Maryland Extension), and Benji Ballmer (Yellowbird Foodshed).2025-05-0258 min
Stop Feeling Like Shit PodcastEP 42: Nutrition and the Importance of Buying Local Whole Foods with Benji Ballmer, Yellowbird FoodshedWhat if there was a one-stop farm shop that you could go to that sources whole foods from surrounding farms AND you can buy it online at your convenience? Nutrition dreams do come true with Yellowbird Foodshed! https://yellowbirdfs.com/
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In this episode, we talk with Benji Ballmer, founder of Yellowbird Foodshed!
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2024-10-2131 min
614 feastThe Yellowbird Foodshed co-founder Benji BallmerThe 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 meWhat 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, b...2023-02-2800 min
The Brandon Goodyear ShowBenji BallmerEnjoy this wide ranging conversation with Benji of Yellowbird Foodshed. if you're local to Central Ohio Order some food from them! https://yellowbirdfs.com/
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PATH Positive Approaches To HealthRoad Trip... Destination Mt. Vernon, Ohio - Making Broccoli SexyToni and Jenny continue their road trip, this time landing in Mt. Vernon, Ohio a little town northeast of Columbus. They find themselves with Benji Ballmer, the Dave Matthew’s-loving Dad & owner of YellowBird Foodshed. Yellowbird is an innovative food company that works with over 100 food growers and producers from Ohio to bring the food they grow and harvest to the surrounding community. Some people would call them a CSA (community supported agriculture) but Benji prefers to call his business a foodshed, which is a term used to describe a region of food flows, from the area where it is...2022-05-171h 24
no proofbenji ballmerI learned of Yellowbird Foodshed at the beginning of lockdown when I went from cooking maybe twice a week to cooking 2-3 times a day. Their local features and respect they show toward Ohio farmers was intriguing enough to bring me in, and the quality and focus on food changed the way I eat. When I learned of the owner, Benji, his sobriety story and focus on wellness was something that really resonated with me. His outlook on self-improvement was one of the conversations that reignited my own passions in taking care of myself. I hope you find this...2021-09-2253 min
Sovereign Self Show#84 Who Grew Your Food? with Benji BallmerOur guest, Benji Ballmer is the founder of Yellowbird Foodshed. He has been working with over 100 food growers and producers from Ohio, Yellowbird's community of eaters has CAST THEIR VOTE with their fork. Each product that we eat has been sustainably raised, harvested, transported, and consumed.
Yellowbird's members are constantly striving to create solutions to help restore one of the planets most fundamental, yet most corrupted system...FOOD.
By asking ourselves, “Who Grew Your Food?”, Benji and his company, partner with both food growers and consumers, to create a sustainable model that DE-centralizes our current food...2021-02-2455 min
CBF ArchivesCrisis Management: Yellowbird Foodshed's Benji Ballmer on growing and sustaining amid the pandemicBenji Ballmer would like nothing more than to put himself out of business.That’s how he’ll know he did a good job.The founder of Yellowbird Foodshed started his produce and food delivery business in 2014 connecting a handful of Ohio growers with a couple hundred customers.Today the company is working with 150 growers and food producers in the state and serving 1,500 customers, predominately in Central Ohio.But his ultimate goal isn’t a successful business, it’s changing the food system, at least in the geography within his reach.“I’...2020-09-2544 min
The Wellness Warrior Podcast11: Benji Ballmer | Who Grew Your Food Pt.2Part 2 of Who Grew Your Food with guest, Benji Ballmer, co-founder of Yellowbird foodshed. Yellowbird is a local company here in Ohio that works with over 100 local food growers and producers to provide subscription produce boxes and online store ordering of delicious healthy foods. All of their products have been sustainably raised, harvested, transported, almost everything is organic, non-gmo, it's just all the good stuff in one big local hub.
Here's what we talk about into in today's episode:
The day-to-day operations and behind the scenes of Yellowbird Foodshed
The BIG QUESTION... Who Grew Your...2020-08-131h 09The Wellness Warrior Podcast10: Benji Ballmer | Who Grew Your Food Pt.1Today's amazing guest is Benji Ballmer, founder of Yellowbird foodshed. Yellowbird is a local company here in Ohio that works with over 100 local food growers and producers to provide subscription produce boxes and online store ordering of delicious healthy foods. All of their products have been sustainably raised, harvested, transported, almost everything is organic, non-gmo, it's just all the good stuff in one big local hub. I've been a good friend of Benji's for the past year or so when we first met and boy does he have a lot to say. In today's interview, we got through about 3...2020-08-061h 04
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