Fresh Onions (1 lb)

An onion is in almost every dish that matters and most people buy it without thinking. It is worth thinking about.

A fresh colony onion is firm all the way through, with tight dry skin and no soft spots from weeks of cold storage. When you cut it, the layers are dense and the flavour is sharp and clean. It caramelizes better, holds its structure in a braise, and delivers more depth in a soup than the bottom of a grocery store mesh bag that has been sitting in distribution since early spring.

Summerland Colony grows onions in their colony garden near Carmangay in Vulcan County, Alberta. Established in 2021 as a daughter colony of Clear Lake Colony, Summerland is building out fresh produce operations to serve nearby towns and customers across Alberta. These onions are available by the pound while the season runs.

What Colony Onions Are Good For

Raw: sliced thin into salads, burgers, sandwiches, and salsas. Diced into guacamole and fresh pico de gallo. Pickled in a quick vinegar brine for a fridge condiment that lasts for weeks.

Cooked: caramelized low and slow in butter until sweet and golden, then piled onto anything. Sweated as the base for soups, stews, curries, and braises. Roasted whole alongside root vegetables. Sliced into French onion soup where the quality of the onion is the entire dish.

Preserved: caramelized onion jam. Pickled onions in a spiced vinegar brine. Dehydrated onion flakes for a pantry ingredient that carries through the winter.

Colony onions at per-pound pricing are a simple, honest buy. One of the most foundational ingredients in any kitchen, available fresh from the garden at a price that makes stocking up sensible.

Seasonal Availability
Colony garden onions are available while the harvest runs. Order through Hutterite Marketplace to get yours during the season.