Wild spring onions -- aren't they gorgeous? -- are one of the two crops I gather from the property, absolutely free, the other being hickory nuts. What I'll do is pick one or two pounds of onions, wash them, slice each stalk into narrow rings, air-dry them, and they're ready for packing into freezer bags for a whole year's use when a recipe calls for those elusive "scallions."Pick your own! You will see nice tall assertive onion stalks mostly in disturbed ground or in lawns. Pluck them up! Eat them! Make sure the ground is pretty dry, and then the stalk gives just the slightest, most delightful resistance as you pull. They even smell wonderful! Take care not to pick them along chemically treated, oil-polluted roads -- although I have noticed grow well there.
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