Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

A brief note on storage onions and why they anchor early-season work in the ASN Seed Increase Initiative nursery. Biology, climate adaptation, and seed sovereignty all converge here. Four varieties this year, including our long-time favorite, Newburg. facebook.com/share/p/1AajVdqFC5/

Trays of just-seeded onions upon a nursery bench.
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Trays of just-seeded onions upon a nursery bench.

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Quoted bySome crops are seasonal novelties. Others quietly underpin entire food systems. When the assumptions embedded in industrial agriculture begin to falter, the question of how culture can actually feed itself becomes urgent rather than academic, strategic rather than theoretical.