Harvest Fest Highlights, Spooky Cocktail Recipe, & Bees in the D Honey Bourbon
#65: Fall Happenings @ Featherstone Garden
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Harvest Fest Highlights
We had a great turnout this past weekend at the Motor City Grounds Crew Fall Harvest Fest, which took place right behind our garden. Thanks to those who came by and celebrated with us!! Here are a few photos that captured some of the day’s fun festivities…
Weekly Microgreens
By Renee S.
This week, our microgreens serving suggestion is to add a handful into a smoothie. Because I’m not much of a salad person, I strive to make smoothies packed with nutrients that I might not get elsewhere, loaded with green veggies, antioxidants, and superfoods. Each week I try to batch out 6+ smoothies and store them in the freezer for an easy on-the-go breakfast option, and this week’s smoothies were made with organic carrot turmeric juice, greek yogurt, kale (leaves and stems), spinach, microgreens, bananas, berries, fresh ginger, lime juice, toasted flax seed, lions mane & collagen powder.
If you enjoy a tastier, less green-forward smoothie, you can leave out the kale and only use microgreens and spinach, which is more mild in flavor, add lots of berries and a spoonful of honey or maple syrup per serving. One tip I learned from recipe developer Molly Baz is to add a pinch of salt to your smoothie, which doesn’t make it salty per se, but brings out the flavors—think of it as a flavor enhancer!
Note to our microgreens subscribers: This week, you’re receiving a variety of:
sunflower shoots (nutty + crunchy)
pea shoots (sweet + bright)
radish shoots (mildly spicy)
oxalis leaves & flowers (bright + tangy)
wassabina mustards (sharp + spicy).
We hope you enjoy them, and encourage you to tag/mention @featherstone.garden on instagram so we can share the different ways our subscribers utilize their greens!
If you’re interested in signing up for the remaining three weeks of our Microgreens cycle (starting at $10/wk), click below for signup details.
Margarita de los Muertos
This week we’re serving up another cocktail recipe created by our friend and cocktail connoisseur, Kelly (@yellowbellykelly)! She created this new cocktail to honor those who celebrate #DiaDeLosMuertos (beginning on November 1st), and garnished the cocktail with marigolds from our garden. You can check out her cocktail video for the drink here. 💀🧡
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz @cointreau_us
1/2 oz marigold simple syrup (see recipe below)
Cocktail Directions:
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and serve over one large ice cube.
Marigold simple syrup recipe: combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Add in edible marigolds (or dried edible marigolds). Simmer for 7 minutes. Let cool completely and refrigerate leftover syrup!
Find more of Kelly’s cocktail content by following her on Instagram @yellowbellykelly and TikTok @yellowbellykelly.
Bees in the D x Detroit City Distillery: Honey Bourbon is Back
Product Launch and Sale Event
Friday, November 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM
Detroit City Distillery: 2462 Riopelle Street Detroit
For the fourth year in a row, Bees In The D is thrilled to announce their limited edition release of Honey Bourbon with Detroit City Distillery! This is a very special collaboration with their friends at DCD; the bourbon is finished with honey from the hives on the rooftop of their Whiskey Factory. Additionally, Bees in the D will be offering limited edition Detroit honey that they aged for three months in their bourbon barrels. This release only happens once per year.
The spirit used as the base for the limited edition product is the distillery’s Butcher’s Cut Bourbon, which was recently awarded as a double gold spirit from the World Spirits Competition. It's BEEspoke Bourbon at its finest.
On Nov. 11, the limited edition products will be available online at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the launch party hosted by Detroit City Distillery. Portions of the proceeds will be donated to Bees in the D. The Detroit City Distillery Honey Bourbon is $60 per bottle and the Bees in the D Bourbon-barrel Aged Honey is $40 per bottle.
Thanks for reading!
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Have a great week,
Annie, Aaron, Renee + Chili & Bean (our farm cats ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞)