March Madness: Gatherings Galore!

Curious about the world of fermenting? We’re gathering novice and master fermenters alike to learn, support, and experience new ways of fermenting. Bring your ideas, jars, and latest fermentation projects to share! Register to attend.

With Sunny Akhigbe of the A Boy and His Dream Foundation, we’re excited to present this free event. It will focus on approaches to eating well within real-world constraints like cost, access, and time, tips for selecting wholesome foods on a budget, and ways families can improve their health through everyday food choices.

It’s Women’s History Month!

March is Women’s History Month—join us for a gathering to meet and honor the women who keep our local community intact and who create many of the nourishing products on Wild Onion shelves. More details to come. Curious about the incredible women behind the movement to develop cooperatively owned ‘co-op’ businesses like? Check out this article.

Featured Women-Owned Business

Women-owned businesses are the backbone of our local food economy! Since March is Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating some of the women-owned businesses you can find at Wild Onion Market.

First up is Tasting India, experts in micro-batch roasted and handcrafted spice blends! For founder Chef Jasmine, cooking is a way to bring together community. Spices are personal for Jasmine, who comes from a long line of fierce and talented women, and has fond memories of cooking and learning the magic of spices, business and independence with her aunts and mother.

Tasting India Traditional Spice Blends
Found in Aisle 4

New From 4 Suns Kitchen

In need of a hug? Or maybe comfort in a bowl? Chefs Byron and Gabi are serving up just that with their new vegan lentil soup. Comforting, cozy, and full of nourishing ingredients like carrots, onions, celery, herbs and spices, this soup tastes just like home to us. Plus, 4 Suns Kitchen helps divert food waste by using still-good ingredients from Wild Onion Market.

And, 4 Suns collaborated with Wild Onion owners and farmers Lisa and Chris Gibbons from Skipping Stone Farm to press wild fresh elderberry juice and mix it with other fruits and spices—read their story below.

NEW: Vegan Lentil Soup
Available at 4 Suns Kitchen deli

Fresh from the Gibbon’s farm—they have over 50 wild bushes—the elderberries are hand-picked and boiled down to a syrup with lemon, spices, and raw organic honey.

Located in Buchanan, MI, Skipping Stone Farm is 92 acres of land that the Gibbons are actively restoring and converting to organic land by integrating permaculture practices and regenerating 60 acres of woods, prairie, and swamp. Hard, but worthwhile work for the land and farm they love!

Orange, Apple, Elderberry Juice
Available at to-go cooler next to the deli.

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Recipe of the Week

We could hardly keep the fresh winter greens on the shelf last week! So, we’re back with another stellar recipe—kimchi-creamed collard greens—you won’t want to miss this one. Pick up some tender collards just in from Gray Farms (it’s local)!

Full Recipe

March is also Maple Month

It’s just warm enough to start tapping the maple trees for sweet syrup! Experts in maple since 1945, Pittman Maple Farms located in Arkansaw, WI stocked us up with some local pure Grade A maple syrup, wood-fired to enhance the robust natural maple flavor.