At a time of year when most people are fixated on berries and peaches, corn and tomatoes, it's also the season to get excited about onions -- not just any old allium but a heritage sweet onion ...

Walla Walla sweet onion harvest will kick off in mid-June. Michael J. Locati, president of the Walla Walla sweet onion marketing committee, hopes for improved yields and prices. Walla Walla sweet ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — It took 10 years for Michael J. Locati to develop a red-colored Walla Walla sweet onion. While harvesting, Locati and his uncle noticed that certain onions would have very light ...

Walla Walla Sweet Onions made international headlines last October when a photo of the sweet onions in a wicker basket, posted by a seed company, was deemed too sexy for Facebook. After much ...

Over the years I’ve made quite a few blunders when working with the Walla Walla sweet onion. The idea that they’re so wonderful they’ll fit in anywhere that a regular yellow globe onion would is far ...

SOME PEOPLE ARE still mad about the whole Washington state vegetable thing. Seems that a vocal agricultural contingent agitated for it to be, of all things, the potato. Sure, potatoes are great, but ...

The Texas 1015Y sweet onion had a disappointing season. Many growers lost a third of their crop to rain; some lost it all. So we’ve had to patiently wait for the next sweet onions to arrive from ...

‘Yellow Granex Hybrid” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, so when the first sweet onions were introduced, it was probably a smart move by growers to give their specialty sweets catchy names. People ...

A year after its chances were thwarted by the "Big Potato" lobby, the Walla Walla sweet onion is on its way to becoming the official Washington state vegetable. Today, the state Senate passed a bill ...

The pilot program will select up to five routes that showcase local scenery. In Walla Walla, that means showing off ...

Harvested Walla Walla sweet onions are placed in 1,000-bound bins in this photo contributed by Michael J. Locati, president of the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Marketing Committee. WALLA WALLA, Wash. — ...