Onions 2024 - Reel

During the fall we harvested and cured, shallots, sweets, white, storage yellow, cipollini & red onions. We tried a new technique by hanging our onions vertically verse laying them horizontally. This method required more work, due to pulling the onion leaves through the wire racks. Once complete it looked really freaking awesome with them all hanging.
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Onions in particular, have been known to build flavour to a large amount of dishes around the global. They store well for long periods of time and is one of the most ancient food sources recorded. It is not known for certain where they originated from but many guess central Asia, Iran and West Pakistan area.
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Egyptians worshiped onions thinking its rings symbolized eternal life. Indeed, it was often buried along with their dead. Ancient Greek athletes consumed large quantities of them thinking it would “balance” their blood and improve their athletic prowess.
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It was used by all of our ancestors to treat a wide array of conditions ranging from hair loss to treating colds, coughs, asthma and breathing problems. Even today, its consumption has been linked to reduced risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes because of its high level of phenolic and flavonoid compounds with high antioxidant activity.
🧅“I will not move my army without onions.” - General Ulysses S. Grant declared in an advisory to the federal government. It reflects the fact that, throughout history, onions were valued as much for their medicinal properties as for their culinary use. Their healthful nature and ability to add culinary interest to bland dishes makes onion the third most important vegetable in the world. During the stone ages they were considered a form of payment for rent.
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We love using them in almost any soup, stock, sauce, dressing, dip and marinade. They work wonderfully pickled, fermented, dehydrated for powder or even frozen. Used as an ingredient in many of our favourite herbalism recipes like, fire cider, in tinctures, sliced and put in our socks when we sleep, cut and left out on the counter, fermented with raw honey and even raw in health shots.