I'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.
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Boxes of onions in the trunk of a car.
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.