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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] CSA Question: Tips on Harvesting Spring Onions
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:01:40 -0400

OK.

Onions we have for shares this spring!!

But getting them pulled, cleaned and bunched for 100 shares is killing us.

How do you handle them?

By spring onions, in this case, I mean scallions from sets that have grown to less than golf ball size.

I'm imagining that there may be an appropriate way to dry the onions in the sun so they are not so "slimey" and so the soil on them is not 'mud' (Your hearing right now from a guy who got 3inches of rain in the lst 30 hours) The bulbs seem to keep well this way, but the tops do not look like market scallion greens anylonger.

But, WASHING and PEELING and TRIMMING a hundred bunches is REALLY labor intensive and TIME INTENSIVE when it's in the hands of interns. Any way around this?

One more question: if you are doing spring onions for a CSA share, how many do you bunch?

And another: do you have any good recipes for GRILLED SPRING ONIONS? (Or other spring onion recipes?)

Our bunches are running 12 to 15 onions to a bunch.

Thanks

-Allan



  • [Market-farming] CSA Question: Tips on Harvesting Spring Onions, Allan Balliett, 06/06/2004

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