All About Ramps

How to find, harvest, clean and cook an awesome wild edible - ramps. Another name for these is wild leeks. Yum!
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[@gldnedge]

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!

[@jackhickey8380]

I love the way it ends: “Mmm. MMMMM. MMMMMM!!!.

[@hibiscusflower5911]

The best!!!

[@j246802]

Legend has it man still saying mmmm MMM MMMMM increasingly louder to this day.

[@royheilman6662]

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.

[@KatieGutz]

Omg...so glad I watched all the way to the very end lolll

[@MrFullautoak47]

Yew had me at bacon grease...awe yeah !

[@WayOffTheTrail]

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.

[@willtoulan]

mmm...mmm..MMM! 4:00

[@averageiowaguy]

+will toulan Yeah, these are REALLY good. That was the first bite of them I've had all year. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@rbsayshi]

😂😂that scared my cat

[@chihuahuasrule1175]

@@rbsayshi it scared me.😱

[@frankfomkin222]

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!

[@nativenygardens187]

Great video. Ramps are a fantastic, native, spring edible. We just went foraging for ramps in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.

[@MrX-rq3fj]

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.

[@FloydianForever]

As long as your only taking 10% you be aight

[@98Bafana]

Exactly you know. there is technique in harvesting to leave the roots.

[@yuumorisawa]

日本でも根は残すものとされています。乱獲で減りすぎたのです。最近は3枚葉もとらないことが望ましいと言われ始めました。種子をつくるから。

[@willames363]

sounds great, looks good!!

[@shadyman6346]

I’ve got 2 acres of them...never heard of it till they came from nowhere.

[@erikomaeda4855]

Poor boi, he doesn't even know me and my friends made a cult from this video. We're litellary listening to this Daily..

[@shortythepresident3913]

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.

[@Lag_TV]

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.

[@David-sc2ir]

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 :)

[@gmandersonjr]

I use to harvest them up in Asheville, NC. Very common up there. Works great in salads

[@alananiicole]

This is the first place I’ve ever tried them! haven’t had them in 8 years and finally got some today! :)

[@CountryRoadRider]

Nice to know. I live in Iowa as well

[@lailamckinney9810]

Yummy!!!!! Now that's what I'm talking about!

[@Adventurer-1971]

Really a butter knife LOL thats awesome

[@PREPFORIT]

You had my attention at " bacon " : )

[@xpallodoc]

Looks tasty

[@biggyiggy3311]

Pickle those in apple vinegar and honey! Mmmmm

[@teambeining]

My grandpa always liked hunting for ramps. Sounded weedy to me, so I would never touch them.

[@charronfamilyconnect]

What kind of trees to you find these around besides maples and beech? Do you find them around shagbark hickories fore example? Thanks!

[@xpallodoc]

Damn!

[@trinkladd]

Lol. I take it, they taste good

[@debiaviles4207]

Ramp butter is amazing!

[@occamsox5331]

Pickle them. Char and pulverize them a whip them in to butter to make the best garlic bread ever.

[@zfilmmaker]

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!

[@fishernate1]

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!

[@BeastOfTraal]

Just had some today for the first time I fried them with some potatoes.

[@JamesMcCutcheon]

I live in Northern Alabama, these should also be here in the wild.

[@eric81872]

☺♥

[@scruff_uk]

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*

[@ionidhunedoara1491]

mistook field garlic for ramps and ate a bunch. Guaranteed to get nobody coming up close.

[@carlbowman3366]

Dude, that's a LOT of grease lol. Try sauntering them in butter, good stuff! It'll make a poopy 😁

[@hibiscusflower5911]

Is that a carbon steel pan?

[@happyjjlli]

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!

[@xdpking9271]

Is it true the bulbs take 7 years to grow back once you pull the plant?

[@kathrynracine9647]

Yes, 5-7 years.

[@shortythepresident3913]

Dude, You should buy random plant seeds and just throw them everywhere in your woods.

[@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt515]

Lol that good?

[@spankiedoodlesteve2086]

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

[@charronfamilyconnect]

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?

[@averageiowaguy]

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.

[@averageiowaguy]

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.

[@charronfamilyconnect]

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.

[@averageiowaguy]

It's my private property. I need to know a source for the cutting the bulbs half way down. That doesn't sound right.

[@averageiowaguy]

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.