Walla Walla Sweet Onions
Food and Beverage ServicesWashington, United States0-1 Employees
Mission: The Walla Walla Sweet Onion Marketing Committee works closely with growers, producers and handlers in the Walla Walla Valley to promote and market this wonderful vegetable to those outside of our area. This Committee works largely on donations from generous folks that believe in our famous onion. Company Overview: The Walla Walla Sweet Onion Festival event is hosted each year by the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Marketing Committee, and a group of dedicated folk from our community calling themselves The Onion Ring! This event proudly showcases our State Vegetable. We love it and want you to know about it! Description: The Walla Walla Sweet Onion story began nearly a century ago on the Island of Corsica, off the west coast of Italy. It was there that a French soldier, Peter Pieri, found a sweet onion seed and brought it to Walla Walla in the late 1800’s. At the time, Italian immigrant gardeners comprised the core of WallaWalla’s gardening industry, and several were Pieri’s neighbors. Impressed by the new onion’s winter hardiness, they and Pieri harvested the seed. This “French” onion developed over several generations through the process of carefully hand selecting onions from each year’s crop, ensuring exceptional sweetness, jumbo size, and round shape. Today’s growers realize they’re not just raising sweet onions, but cultivating a tradition.
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