Onions, onions, onions, and more onions....and then some more!!! =P
You are probably wondering where in the world we got 60,000 onions, right? :)
Well, technically they really aren't ours, they were grown by the amish neighbors who let us swim in their pond.
Chris and Katie planted 60,000 onion bulbs and harvested over 36,000 lbs. of Sweet Onions. Chris built these large wooden crates during the winter that each hold approxiamately 1,000 pounds. The company they grew the onions for rejected 13 of the 36 full crates. If they found one bad onion in a crate the entire crate was rejected. We've been helping them sort the bad onions from the good onions and then selling the good onions. Chris and Katie have a few pigs and they were throwing the bad onions to them. Now the pigs are so sick of onions they won't even eat one! :)
We've been selling them to restaurants to try to help them out.
Need any onions? :)
We've been chopping and freezing many bags of onions!
And we've enjoyed eating the onions!
One of our favorite ways to eat them is in the crockpot with zucchini.
When they're done sprinkle feta cheese over it all and it is delicious! :)
In the grocery store my mom noticed a sign above their onion display that stated onions prevent heart disease, cancer, and cataracts. Now the question is does actually eating the onion prevent cataracts, or is it from SLICING them?!
Ya'll are going to have a healthy winter! Did you ever hear of leaving an onion set around in your house to take all the sickness germs away? (I've never tried it but we'll see how healthy you stay) haha
ReplyDeleteWe're enjoying our onions from you....thanks!
The farmer's wife
Lol..wow...that is a TON of onions!!!
ReplyDeleteHow interesting. Did the farmers plant each of the onion bulbs by hand? Did they have help?
ReplyDeleteI love cooking with onions but having 13,000 pounds of onions to deal with would be mind boggling.