Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

I love raising locally-adapted storage onions, a cornerstone bridge crop—fresh food that behaves like a staple in storage. Not idea but flesh, not a concept but a covenant with the seasons. The ordinary becomes luminous in time. This is what it means to come home.

Transplanting locally-adapted open-pollinated storage onion varieties, including: Newburg, Fehmel-Steig, Rossa di Toscana, and Zébrune Shallot-Onion. Listening to @homebrewedxnty on Bluetooth. The blessed ordinariness of new world creation.
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Transplanting locally-adapted open-pollinated storage onion varieties, including: Newburg, Fehmel-Steig, Rossa di Toscana, and Zébrune Shallot-Onion. Listening to @homebrewedxnty on Bluetooth. The blessed ordinariness of new world creation.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Apr 2022

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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Quoted byI'm satisfied. That's four varieties of our finest locally-adapted storage onions, raised, cured, selected, and handed off to the @AgrarianSharing seed-increase team. Next spring they'll be replanted in separate locations where they'll produce true seed for our sharing network.Quoted byRT @AgrarianSharing: Strong in the field, the four storage onions we're raising for food and seed-increase this year: Oregon's Newberg, Fehmel-Steig from the Rheinland, Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou from France, and Tuscany's Rossa di Toscana. All have been getting homey, hereabouts, in recent years.Quoted byStrong in the field, the four storage onions we're raising for food and seed-increase this year: Oregon's Newberg, Fehmel-Steig from the Rheinland, Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou from France, and Tuscany's Rossa di Toscana. All have been getting homey, hereabouts, in recent years.Quoted byOne of the deepest joys of an outdoor life is feeling the seasons transform. Sometimes you catch the instant of a turn itself: a sudden shift in fundamental character, and the future breaks in. This morning, winter's advent arrived upon a breeze. Time to cut water to the onions.