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.
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.
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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.