How to find, harvest, clean and cook an awesome wild edible - ramps. Another name for these is wild leeks. Yum! en.wikipedia.o...
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@gldnedge7 жыл бұрын
I'm a WV resident who LOVES early spring and the annual ramp harvest. My favorite way to eat ramps is sauteed in an iron skillet with sliced red potatoes and andouille sausage!
@jackhickey83804 жыл бұрын
I love the way it ends: “Mmm. MMMMM. MMMMMM!!!.
@hibiscusflower59113 жыл бұрын
The best!!!
@MrX-rq3fj4 жыл бұрын
Dude leave the roots! A patch of ramps takes a long time to populate and if u take the roots they wont come back. I always make sure to cut the bulb right above the roots if u can help it to preserve the patch coming back.
@FloydianForever3 жыл бұрын
As long as your only taking 10% you be aight
@98Bafana3 жыл бұрын
Exactly you know. there is technique in harvesting to leave the roots.
+will toulan Yeah, these are REALLY good. That was the first bite of them I've had all year. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@rbsayshi4 жыл бұрын
😂😂that scared my cat
@chihuahuasrule11754 жыл бұрын
@@rbsayshi it scared me.😱
@royheilman66624 жыл бұрын
I’m glad people are concerned about the future of ramps, because a lack of stewardship in the past has decimated wild populations. But settle down, folks. If you take 15 seconds to scan the comments, you’ll see that he’s on private property, and that he’s taking a small fraction of what’s there. He’s taking care of HIS OWN patch of ramps just fine. Sheesh.
@WayOffTheTrail8 жыл бұрын
Just had some fried with potatoes last weekend here in Kansas. MMM Indeed! Got some bulbs in March from the ramp farm in Richwood, WV. Left some in the ground. Hopefully they will survive the hot summers here and go to seed.
@MrFullautoak478 жыл бұрын
Yew had me at bacon grease...awe yeah !
@shadyman63464 жыл бұрын
I’ve got 2 acres of them...never heard of it till they came from nowhere.
@KatieGutz4 жыл бұрын
Omg...so glad I watched all the way to the very end lolll
@erikomaeda48554 жыл бұрын
Poor boi, he doesn't even know me and my friends made a cult from this video. We're litellary listening to this Daily..
@David-sc2ir4 жыл бұрын
Been eating these for years and years. As a child it was great fun in early spring to hunt muggins (morels) and ramps in these Virginia hills :) Digging ginseng was also a huge thing for mountain people to dig in the summer months for extra $$$. Pawpaw season is upon us now, get them before the possums and raccoons do :)
@nativenygardens1876 жыл бұрын
Great video. Ramps are a fantastic, native, spring edible. We just went foraging for ramps in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
@frankfomkin2228 жыл бұрын
I am with you all the way! Morels are just popping up here in Vermont and started with ramps and scrambled eggs last weekend. Love my Morel season, eat my fill, share some and dry the rest!
@willames3638 жыл бұрын
sounds great, looks good!!
@teambeining3 жыл бұрын
My grandpa always liked hunting for ramps. Sounded weedy to me, so I would never touch them.
@gmandersonjr5 жыл бұрын
I use to harvest them up in Asheville, NC. Very common up there. Works great in salads
@alananiicole3 жыл бұрын
This is the first place I’ve ever tried them! haven’t had them in 8 years and finally got some today! :)
@occamsox53313 жыл бұрын
Pickle them. Char and pulverize them a whip them in to butter to make the best garlic bread ever.
@shortythepresident39134 жыл бұрын
Dude, You should buy random plant seeds and just throw them everywhere in your woods.
@biggyiggy33115 жыл бұрын
Pickle those in apple vinegar and honey! Mmmmm
@ionidhunedoara14913 жыл бұрын
mistook field garlic for ramps and ate a bunch. Guaranteed to get nobody coming up close.
@fishernate12 жыл бұрын
My mom is from WV and she always told us ramps make you smell horrible. I've never tried them, but I would like to at some point!
@Lag_TV8 жыл бұрын
I see you have some Trout Lily as well. My mother and me go out and harvest a ton of the leeks every few years and she cans them up so we always have them on hand.
@PREPFORIT8 жыл бұрын
You had my attention at " bacon " : )
@debiaviles42074 жыл бұрын
Ramp butter is amazing!
@Adventurer-19718 жыл бұрын
Really a butter knife LOL thats awesome
@BeastOfTraal5 жыл бұрын
Just had some today for the first time I fried them with some potatoes.
@zfilmmaker3 жыл бұрын
I was in the UK and had dinner at Gordon Ramsey’s signature restaurant in Chelsea and had ramps and watercress cooked in duck fat and omg was it good. I like yours better though...much, much, much cheaper haha!
@CountryRoadRider8 жыл бұрын
Nice to know. I live in Iowa as well
@eric818723 жыл бұрын
☺♥
@j2468024 жыл бұрын
Legend has it man still saying mmmm MMM MMMMM increasingly louder to this day.
@trinkladd4 жыл бұрын
Lol. I take it, they taste good
@carlbowman33663 жыл бұрын
Dude, that's a LOT of grease lol. Try sauntering them in butter, good stuff! It'll make a poopy 😁
@xdpking92713 жыл бұрын
Is it true the bulbs take 7 years to grow back once you pull the plant?
@kathrynracine9647 Жыл бұрын
Yes, 5-7 years.
@scruff_uk8 жыл бұрын
Love the Wild Garlic (aka. Ramson) we get here in the UK, which are of the same family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_ursinum Yet to try them in bacon grease though *drool*
@charronfamilyconnect4 жыл бұрын
What kind of trees to you find these around besides maples and beech? Do you find them around shagbark hickories fore example? Thanks!
@happyjjlli3 жыл бұрын
I live in SC but I am from VA,,, I can't find any ramps here. can I order them some place??? I use to boil them & then sauteed in butter. if I ever get some more before I die I will use bacon grease!
@xpallodoc8 жыл бұрын
Damn!
@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt5153 жыл бұрын
Lol that good?
@spankiedoodlesteve20863 жыл бұрын
I’m not gonna be like the rest of the West Virginians in these comments. Been born and raised here in southern WV, For all 26 years of my life, I’ve grown and eaten ramps outside the backyard. They aren’t that amazing, in fact the flavor is very overhyped and overrated. I can get onions n garlic from the store and the things I cook will generally taste better
@charronfamilyconnect7 жыл бұрын
All about ramps except how to harvest them sustainably. Why do you take the whole freakin bulb? If you leave a bit of the bulb above the roots it regenerates within 2 years instead of 7 years(if you are lucky enough). Why do none of you ramp pickers know how to harvest sustainably?
@averageiowaguy7 жыл бұрын
Source for your claim please. Also, the rule of thumb for sustainability for wild harvest that I've been trained with is 1 in 7 - meaning harvest 1 out of 7 of the resource that you find. If you saw the woods that I am in, it would be absolutely impossible to harvest even 1 out of 10,000, let alone 1 out of 7. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@averageiowaguy7 жыл бұрын
My source for the sustainable harvest rule of 1:7 is Mors Kochanski and the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, and college level Botany - I got an A+ in the class. That is the rule the professor taught as well.
@charronfamilyconnect7 жыл бұрын
Sure that would be sustainable if no one else happens to come along and harvest the same ratio, and then another person comes by and does the same etc.... Eventually, they become iradicated because they are much sought after by many foragers. But if its a well hidden secret spot that only you know about cause its on your private property, and all your neighbors or passerbyes respect your land then sure it would be sustainable. However, if everyone harvested using the method i described then it would not matter how many people come by to cut the bulbs half way down.
@averageiowaguy7 жыл бұрын
It's my private property. I need to know a source for the cutting the bulbs half way down. That doesn't sound right.
@averageiowaguy7 жыл бұрын
Fair enough. I only know the edible plants in my area but I know them well. I'll stick with the tried and true 1 in 7 rule, but thanks for watching and commenting.
@shortythepresident39134 жыл бұрын
Also what would be cool is to buy inoculated mushrooms on small logs and put em in your woods too. The spores will spread and you never run out of mishrooms. They're cheap too. One 2 foot mushroom log is about 20 bucks on ebay. Mushrooms love that area you live in and you'd have mushrooms for the rest of your days.
@hibiscusflower59113 жыл бұрын
Is that a carbon steel pan?
@JamesMcCutcheon5 жыл бұрын
I live in Northern Alabama, these should also be here in the wild.