Onions

We don't grow a lot of onions at One Love Farm. As my fellow farmer John Jackson says "Why grow it when you can get it just as good at the grocery store." While the fruit and veggies you grow in your yard and I grow on my farm are way, way more tasty than anything you can get in the grocery store, there are exceptions. Tropical fruit is one exception. Another might be onions. That is why we grow only a few dozen onions every year and just tuck them between spaces of other crops.

One of the reasons we grow onions is because it is very rewarding. I like watching the shoot grow larger until it topples over signaling harvest. I also like knowing that every ingredient in the salsa I make, from the tomato to the garlic to the peppers to the onion all came from the farm. The only thing I have to buy is the salt and lime juice!

Here is a nice salsa recipe. Feel free to adjust amounts and substitute ingredients. That's how you make it your own!
Ingredients

6 Roma tomatoes, chopped

4 garlic cloves, minced

2 seeded and minced jalapenos, plus 2 roasted, skinned and chopped jalapenos

1 red bell pepper, fine dice

1/2 red onion, fine chopped

2 dry ancho chiles, seeded, cut into short strips and snipped into pieces

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 lime, juiced

1/2 red onion, chopped

2 tablespoons chopped cilantro

Chili powder, salt, and pepper, to taste

Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for an hour

Serve with tortilla chips