Photos, Video, 360: Onion Day At Carter House

Bermuda Onion Day was celebrated today [May 28] at Carter House in St. David’s, featuring historic displays and, of course, onions.

Introduced to the island in the early 1600s, the Bermuda onion was first exported to the east coast from St. George’s in 1847.

Onions quickly became Bermuda’s major export crop, and by the middle of the 19th century, Bermuda itself was widely referred to as “The Onion Patch.” While the era of Bermuda farmers exporting onions came to an end, the “Bermuda onion” nickname endures, and last year the Oxford English Dictionary added a new description to the word onion, calling it a “native or inhabitant of Bermuda.”

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