The Onion Johnnies is a photograph by Nando Lardi which was uploaded on October 4th, 2019.
The Onion Johnnies
A plain Breton house front in Roscoff with bushels of pink onions hanging and drying in the salty ocean air.... more
by Nando Lardi
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The Onion Johnnies
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Nando Lardi
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A plain Breton house front in Roscoff with bushels of pink onions hanging and drying in the salty ocean air.
In the 19th century, innovative farmers looking for more turnover sailed from the north coast of Brittany to England and Wales and basically told the locals that their onions were much better than anything grown there. Over the years this turned into a large-scale but still romantic cottage industry with thousands of tons of French onions shipped across the English Channel and sold by Frenchmen wearing those typical black-and-white striped shirts and riding bicycles: the Onion Johnnies.
The recent revival of local and organic farming has helped spur renewed interest in this trade and people, which had dwindled to less than a few by the 1950s and the advent of large-scale industrial agriculture.
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