How Sweet It Is
Mar 14, 2019
2 minutes
By Jenny Everett
ILLUSTRATION BY
JOHN BURGOYNE
In the spring of 1931, one of the first farmers to plant onions in Toombs County, Georgia, made an unexpected discovery: Bulbs that were typically sharp-flavored when planted elsewhere turned sweet in the low-sulfur soil of his fields. He started telling
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