Get your Georgia Vidalia onions starting today
Today's the day Vidalia onion lovers likely have marked on their calendars -- the sweet, mild onion hits grocery store produce departments. The Georgia Department of Agriculture set today as the official pack date for the vegetables; Vidalia season usually lasts through mid-July.
Brett McLain of McLain Farms and chairman of the Vidalia advisory panel said in a release that setting the April 25 date helps avoid shipping immature onions.
Vidalia onions are unique to Georgia and may only be grown in parts of a 20-county area in the southeastern part of the state. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Georgia farmers harvested 268 million pounds of Vidalia onions from 11,200 acres in 2015.
Read more about Vidalia onions here and how Bill Gates ran afoul of the Vidalia onion police here
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Yvonne Zusel has been with the AJC since 2010. She worked on the digital news and food and dining teams before joining the arts & entertainment team.
