How long can an onion store? That depends. We may as well ask, 'from where does planetary wisdom issue?' Today I'm cooking with onions I raised and harvested in 2023. The variety? 'Maria Nagy', an extraordinary long-keeper shared to the PNW by Romanian seed steward, Maria Nagy.
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Photograph of a basket of 'Maria Nagy' storage onions. The seed originally comes to us from Maria Nagy in the lights, a Romanian seed saver whose varieties powerfully shape regenerative food culture in the PNW.
Food as medicine? Few foods have as storied a planetary history as onions. Our earliest record? Perhaps the Charaka Samhita, a 6th Century BCE Ayurvedic text, itself based on the Agnivesha Samhitā, an 8th Century BCE medical compendium. Onion knowhow, then.youtu.be/SkF3c4dNQws
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