Digging Ramps in Appalachia
Вставка
- Опубліковано 21 кві 2021
- Come along with us as we go on a ramp digging trip in the mountains. Ramps are a native plant of the high elevations of the Appalachian Mountains and are considered a rite of Spring for many. It was a wonderful day fellowshipping one with another, in the great outdoors, good food, and fresh ramps!
Visit the following links to learn more about the tradition of digging ramps in Appalachia:
blindpigandtheacorn.com/the-r...
blindpigandtheacorn.com/rumin...
blindpigandtheacorn.com/a-mes...
blindpigandtheacorn.com/do-yo...
Please subscribe to this channel and help me Celebrate Appalachia!
Drop us a line:
Celebrating Appalachia
PO Box 83
Brasstown, NC 28902
Visit Blind Pig and The Acorn here: blindpigandtheacorn.com
Find The Pressley Girls music here: / @thepressleygirls
Find Blind Pig and the Acorn music here: / @blindpigandtheacorn
Buy my family's music here: www.etsy.com/shop/BlindPigAnd... and here: www.etsy.com/ThePressleyGirls...
Buy Chitter's jewelry here: www.etsy.com/shop/StameyCreek...
#Appalachia #DiggingRamps #WildRamps
Visit the following links to learn more about the tradition of digging ramps in Appalachia:
blindpigandtheacorn.com/the-ramp-tramp/
blindpigandtheacorn.com/ruminations-on-ramps/
blindpigandtheacorn.com/a-mess-of-ramps/
blindpigandtheacorn.com/do-you-like-ramps/
You're fun!✌🏼☺👍🏼❤
enjoyed reading the ramp tramp lol
I have been talking to my wife about going back,we miss it.
What is the nutritional value of ramps?
@@cordyg4306 not sure,but most green lefty plants are full of antioxidents and vitimins.I will have to research it.
Hello from Nicholas County West Virginia, near Richwood. The ramps this year were thick on the southern mountain sides, and extra tasty. The best spring tonic in the world. We just enjoyed a awesome cookout with fried taters, cornbread, bacon, eggs, deer meat, fresh caught trout just minutes old and bunches of ramps with good coffee. Life is good in the mountains!
My dads family was from Summersville. They always dug ramps .
My Great Grandma lived in Richwood and she LOVED ramps!
Hmmm ... wondering if you are my cousin Randy ??
@@peachy75019 Hello, I do have many cousins, some I have meet, others no. Where do live and what is your family roots?
@@randy5766 Now that I re-read your comment, I think you aren't because you are calling out from Nicholas County and my cousin now lives in Berkeley County. Sorry about that.
There are so many UA-cam channels about Appalachia, my home. Only yours “celebrates” the beauty of the land, the traditions, the culture and the people. The rest exploit, denigrate, humiliate. Thank you for your work and your love of a home that is my place too. God Bless You!
No that's just us having fun.
I love this channel too! My maternal ancestors are from Outer Banks NC
DONNIE LAWS is an awesome channel. Check him out !!
Matt said something I haven't heard in a long time. "They're too stout for me to eat raw." Stout meaning strong flavor. Watching this channel is a blessing and a curse. I miss "back home" so bad. After every video my heart is both full and broken. How can I not love you all? Its like home movies of kinfolk. But its also reminds me of what's I'm missing. ❤️
Thank you 😀
In N. England we call them ramsons or wild garlic and in spring the woods smell of nothing else. We tend to use them in stews and as salad greens. Great video, thank you.
Maybe not the first to say but here in Wales ramps are called wild garlic or ramsons and we pick them every spring. They grow along the streams and on the hills of our little hill farm in West Wales. Always seen as a sign of spring after the snowdrops, primroses and daffodils. We try to leave the roots in the ground and further down the valley you can smell them as you drive past, they're so abundant.
Slightly different plant, same family though. In Appalachia we have Allium tricoccum. In Wales (and Europe/Asia) you have Allium ursinum. For eating though, they might as well be the same.
If you leave or replant the roots will they grow new plants?
All the cut off root ends can be replanted😊
Yes but they take about 4 or 5 years till you start seeing any come back up where you planted them!!
We always plant the root back in the ground. I have some on my bank that we planted back like that and they come up every year.
We planted our roots-I'm hoping they come up here 😀 Thank you for watching Wanda!
Just dug some ramps a couple of weeks ago. Been wanting and finally saw some not far from road. Landowner kindly allowed me to go digging. When growing up I only heard them called wild leeks and as an adult heard ramps. Are good and free. Love getting food from nature that God has provided.
My dad and mom took all of us to dig ramps, before we were even in school. It was a family outing. All of us enjoyed ramp, and still do. Dad’s gone, mom is in her mid eighties. So we try to dig her a mess every spring. However she has a patch behind the house that I started when I was around sixteen. I am in my mid sixties and live a little ways off. God blessings to you and your family. Thanks for sharing with us.
Glad you have those memories of ramp digging with your family 😀
Ok, how did the word "mess " become associated with many vegetables ? I have been to several mountain ranges but the mess of Appalachian mountains is my favorite, I walked them in New Hampshire and Georgia. When I gave up watching pro sports I picked Appalachian State as my team.
In Texas, going out of state to pick a favorite football team is unforgivable. My grandfather was from Kentucky so we learned some of the ways of mountain folks. I hope I take after him, he was a good man.
@@overout429 My advice wheather you want it or not, Give up the BS. games and get serious about the good times in the Mountains and go dig some ramps,,,
Looks so much like Cherokee Nation Oklahoma where I live, so beautiful. Hills always make me feel safe. The mountains & the hills are our protectors, & gives of life as they always been.
Donadagohv'i
Brasstown is close to the EBCI Rez. Parts of it in Marble and Robbinsville. Heart of Cherokee country.
@@mikethompson1464 Never been to N. Carolina, know it would be emotional trip. The mountains are so beautiful, how lucky you are!!🤗
I live in far North Texas about 45 mins from the red River…Our daughter went to Unuversity of Arkansas Fayetteville and the past 2 years we discovered the beautiful mountains of Oklahoma as they are approaching Arkansas…I love the mountains and although these mountains are not as big as Colorado they do just the trick to give me my mountain fix…We won’t drive to Arkansas any other way now only thru the back way thru the mountains …just so beautiful ❤️
Such beautiful wildflowers growing in the woods with the ramps. Thanks for this video and the outdoor foraging and cooking tips too.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
There’s nothing prettier than the mountains and hills of Appalachia! I’m so blessed to have grown up here! Thank you for all you do!!!❤TN Nana😊
Waynesville, NC 1982 went to the Ramp Festival. There was an old timer politician known as The King of the Ramps and he'd get on stage praising ramps with the fervor of a Baptist preacher during revival.
My family from North Carolina every spring would have a ramp fry. I miss it so much.
I just got to see this video, even though it’s 2yrs old. I love it my family and I would go out like that to pick honey suckle and butter cup flowers. If you put the yellow flower up to the bottom of your chin it would cast golden yellow. If it did cast you loved butter and had a heart of gold. At least mother told us that. Thanks for the memories. Brooks Oregon.
We always make sure to cut the roots and put back in the dirt where we got them so they will keep growing! They grow at around 700 ft in central kentucky. We love your contributions to celebrating Appalachia and enjoy coming along with your everyday life.
This was a question I was wanting to ask Thank you because of the root I figured u should just replant so if u cut the green off and use it instead of pulling up the whole bulb they will do better the following year is that right ?
@@lindaspillman1817 yes, that is correct for my area. Happy gathering 😀
Aunt Jenny Marie Thanks I figure this was the case why just toss the root on the ground when u can just cut off the green where there at and leave the rest to replenish
i dug a handful of ramps 3 years ago & chose to transplant a few of them. now, i've got 5 big patches of ramps that come up in my yard every year. Delicious!!!
That is wonderful! We planted a few but I'm worried we're not high enough in elevation for them to do well. Congratulations on yours!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I dig them in and around Huntington, WV, almost always at elevations under a thousand feet (the best spot I know is barely above the Ohio River water level, which I think is around 500’ there), so I don’t think elevation is necessarily a requirement, but I’m sure better patches exist higher up. I’ve very rarely found any up in the mountains, but I’m generally not there til summer, so that’s no real surprise.
I make pickles out of the bulbs and stems and dehydrate and crush the greens to use kinda like chives, they take on a nice, roasted-garlic/chive sort of flavor and are tasty on nearly everything. The pickles are good for salsa and relishes and stuff, or just minced up in some good grainy mustard for burgers and hot dogs and stuff. I’ve only ever seen the red ones.
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney That's encouraging news! The only ones we've ever known about in WNC are at higher elevations. Thanks for sharing that info!
@@CelebratingAppalachia What’s WNC? Sorry.Seconded.
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney Sorry I meant western North Carolina 😀
Tipper I want to thank you for sending me this video now I will know what Matt is talking about next time I here the word ramps and I’m a ole fashion country gal and I have a good felling I would like the ramps my self I really enjoy this video
What a beautiful area! I’ve never heard of ramps before. Thanks for taking us along 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it Kat 😀
Each year in the spring there is a ramp festival in Cosby Tenn. They have entertainment and fry up lots of ramps with scrambeled ehgs.
Hard living. We have alligator, strawberry , crawfish, bbq , & Chilli festivals. I love Texas. Appalachia would be a great place to go to loose weight.😆
Pretty much a wild garlicky leek
You got that 100% right aint nothing better than being in them Carolina mouuntains
I dug ramps last weekend here in rural NY State . Its just like a big green carpet in the woods right now there are so many.
Charles-that's how it was here too. So pretty! Thank you for watching 😀
I live in Kingston ny is there someplace close by me to get them
It’s ramp season in md too .
Midwest Illinois we have blood root, ramps,and molly moochers (morels)
Enjoyed the video so much. Reminded me of when I was small and people would go out and look for what they called dry land cress. Some called it creasy greens I think. I think it’s great this has been passed down. Wish I had paid more attention to things back then.
This seems like heaven. I hope to one day visit this beautiful part of our Country. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world.
I hope you get to visit! Thank you for watching 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia hopefully I will before its time to go. I know few from Eastern Band, it will be an emotional trip. If you're every around our neck of the woods looks us up. Some of the ancestors on my father's father side are buried in Rowan Co at the Presbyterian church Thyatira, John Knox was my 6x grandfather from Renfewshire Scotland to Coleraine N.Ireland then N. Carolina. My grandmother's family were from N. Georgia & N. Alabama my Cherokee family. Keep up your good works
Wado Sgi,
Mary Elisabeth Knox
Used to have a ramp festival in konnarock, va and a ramp eating contest - was great fun - there would be a Ramp Queen
Dug a few ramps today....there used to be ramp festival in Whitetop,VA every year as a fund raiser for the Fire Dept...that's a nice patch you have...take care
Barnardsville, NC still has one in early spring each year
We dig ramps every spring, we love them with eggs in them and we love branch lettle too. From Burnsville, N.C.
Before viewing this video I'd never heard of the wild-growing ramps you dug and enjoyed as part of a delicious looking picnic meal. The wildflowers you included in the video were delightful to see, especially the dogtooth violets and the trilliums that are also native to my part of the country, way out west.
I'm 73 years old and my first grade teacher called some of us boys ramp scallions.
Chuckles!
we have family property in southwest NY,,, ramps literally cover acres and acres of our woods. can fill a 5 gallon bucket without moving more than 50 feet,,,,
Thanks Tipper great information for a now 64 year old man that to my knowledge and memory never had them. My Father grew Texas sweets onions for years. He would take then to church to give away to anybody there. Precious memories for a guy that moved away but is back to stay in Elizabethhton TN! Thanks again!
I always liked ramps cut up in branch lettuce and kilt with bacon grease.
We had ramps and branch lettuce last weekend
What a beautiful day all around! We are going morel-hunting here in a bit, too, love these rites of spring.
Good land, good friends, good times, and good memories ... God’s daily blessings and joys.
Tipper, my mother grew up near Lenoir City, TN. She would take us into our woods here in S.C. looking for bloodroot, but we never found it here. She used it for play lipstick as a child, and they called the hidden parts under the leaves "little pigs." We finally found some when we went back to visit some of her family. I'll never forget how happy it made her to discover the little treasures.
What a great memory 😀
We used to head out in the spring picking poke salat. Loved that first batch of the year with cornbread.
Everyone is digging ramps but I started planting ramps.
I take the roots and plant them in the back of my yard for next year, just learned about ramps a few years ago - how did I live without them!!
For some reason this video reminds me of the O Henry story where a city man comes to an old country doctor complaining of several ailments. After examining the man, the doctor says I can cure you, but we need to search out a rare, scarce plant which grows on the mountain. So each morning for 2 months the doctor and patient would climb the mountain searching for this plant. It was never found. But, the patient's health remarkedly improved.
Love that story!
DIDNT KNOW WHAT RAMPS WERE NEVER HEARD OF THEM I LOVE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS KEEP MAKING THEM I LEARN FROM YOU I COULD LISTEN TO YOUR STORIES ALL DAY
Have a ramp patch in robbinsville that's been amazing for me . Grew up on snowbird and been digging them for 30 years
Beautiful area and a great outdoor meal after a short days work. Sure looked yummy.
Thank you for sharing your little slice of heaven with me. My Maternal grandmother was from southern Appalachia. I remember her talking about Ramps. The one gentleman used the word “Gomm”. My grandmother used that word too. She would say Mess and Gomm as well. I love your channel. ✌️💕
Thank you!!
I used to go out digging ramps with my Dad when i was a kid! I loved it, at least until we cooked the ramps. I never quite liked them unfortunately. Great memories though! Thanks for posting it.
I really enjoyed this. It looks like you had a lot of fun. This reminds me of when I was on my dad's farm in Alberta, Canada. We also had wild edibles, that were very good. I recall getting hazelnuts, from a hazelnut bush, wild berries, and my dad and his brothers picked wild mushrooms. It was very tasty. I love garlic and onions very much. A ramp festival sounds very awesome. Cheers!
THAT WAS FUN. YOU ALL SOUND LIKE MY DADDYS PEOPLE TALKING. I MISS THEM. ALL GONE NOW. THANKS FOR the memories
Watching from Uganda African
I really enjoyed this video, Tipper. There's nothing that pleases me more than seeing people enjoying nature and celebrating the practices of those who came before us. It's a great way to connect with nature and appreciate the bounty it provides.
Three weeks ago, my wife and I traveled from the northern Appalachian Mountains where we live in northern NH down yonder to your neck of the woods. The purpose for the journey was to hike the Foothills Trail from Oconee State Park to Table Rock State Park. While on trail, we were blessed with the emergence of spring and were surrounded by beautiful wild flowers, some of which you captured in your video. Trillium, wild iris, violets, bloodroot, and yes, even ramps, though they were not yet in bloom. I must say that you live in a beautiful place. And though some may think of the north and south as two different planets, your videos have shown me how incredibly similar we are.
God bless you and your family. Thanks for what you do.
So glad you enjoyed it Roland! I'm glad you and your wife got to make the trip 😀
OMG, lol when i saw the title, I thought it was a center trench where you could drive a vehicle on to it, and work on the bottom of that vehicle. I apologize, for my stupidity. Thanks again for the informative video, I am humbled by my lack of knowledge to the subject of the video.
😀
Ah, delicious ramps! The American Club in Kohler Wisconsin pays up to $20 a pound for ramps. They do grow here but they are very few and far. Great video!
I've heard of ramps but never really knew what they were. Thanks for sharing this information with us.
Tipper ask your husband if he has notice the seed pod on the roots of the ramps . Cut the root off first and replant .
WONDERFUL !
We did notice that little pod! I hope the ones we planted grow 😀
My Dad always talked about wild alliums and I just thought he meant onions but now I'm thinking it's the ramps. As a child he grew up on the Va & NC middle line. He also had beautiful teeth and people thought he had false😁 teeth, he loved that and said he had good teeth because his granny ( Irish) showed him how to take a nice twig from a tree (I want to say birch but can't remember but he showed me one time) and furry the end of it and it almost looked like a soft furry tip to brush your teeth with. Funny watching you and the homeview of what you can remember and by the way I did not get my Dads perfect straight & white teeth.🙄 Tks
Thank you for showing how to harvest ramps. They are some kind of good.. God bless.🦢🇺🇸🌹
I’m slowly watching the past videos of this great channel, and I’m enjoying every one of them. I enjoy learning about Appalachia in this format. It’s almost like I’m there. Great video👍
Yes LOVE them Lucky yes It's a good day whit dad love those times
I appreciate the intelligent content that you present. There is power in the use of knowledge, and there is great power in knowing what growing things God placed on planet Earth for us to thrieve on. Thank you.
I’ve never learned about ramps till today ... but from the description , think I’d take a liking to them. Sure looked tasty cooked in all that goodness . Yummy , then topped off with delicious peanut butter cookies ... best of all just being together on a lovely day in a beautiful place ...Celebrating Appalachia . I do want to try me some ramps❣️
Love this type of video. Enjoy learning about different areas. We dig "spring onions" here but I think its actually wild garlic.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Ramps are actually a wild leek.
My friend told me some good stories about digging ramps. I had never heard of them until then. She also told me the same thing about the school kids being sent home because of the smell.
Believe it or not, ramps grow in NJ. After I moved up here, there was a group going ramp digging. I was so excited. I got a good amount and for supper I made ramps, potatoes, peppers and eggs. We had good corn bread with them. We hadn’t had them in years and my goodness they were good!
Another springtime staple is dandelion greens. I prefer them as a salad.
I remember going out with mum, brother and sister, aunties and cousins to dig up some wild garlic. There used to be an old lady up the back of nana and pas place, everyone called her Granny and saw her for medicinal help as going into town took ages and if the rivers were up you couldn’t cross them. The wild garlic was hers and some would wash down the creek and settle on the banks. Wonderful taste. Cheers Wendy
My dad is from Kentucky, but I was raised in northern Ohio. My dad found a patch of ramps in some woods here in Ohio and I remember him taking us kids out to ramp hunt, but boy did they smell. Thanks for the memories.
Love ramps, wish it was time to go ramp digging. We love ramps and eggs together, good eating.
Have never eaten ramps. Good learning about Ramps.
I've heard of ramps but never really knew what they looked like until watching. Thanks for sharing!
Love the mountains and the mountain people
We call them leeks up here in PA, hubby has his favorite spot that he picks his. One of his favorite meals is bean, ham and leek soup.
Don't know where you folks are from? But I grew up around Va NC Tennessee hills and this is first time I knew of anybody grubbing for ramps except for the older folks. My grandpa used to take me with him he taught me all sorts of wild foods like branch lettuce, kreces and so forth. We logged farmed hunted and ginseng bought us extras. So yall just keep teachin the youngins and hello from North East Tennessee!
Ok thats a new one on me . Never even heard of em . But sounds like it would be good .
Foraging is a great excuse to go outside for a day. I like to do it when I have time.
That reminded me of camping on the cranberry river in richwood every April for years. I agree with the gentleman that said you can make a mistake, by not putting in enough ramps.
a few of the communities here put on ramp feeds. never went huntin for them though. thanks for sharing! i enjoyed watching!
It just don't get no better than that! Thanks for sharing
I'm going out for ramps tomorrow in Western PA. - I'm at about 2000 feet and we get them here. I was out two weeks ago and they were just starting to come up so I'm hoping for a good harvest. My favorite combo is buttered ramps on venison - their strength is perfect for cutting down the gamey flavor of a high-stress kill.
You are blessed with a beautiful place. My grandmother loved trilliums.
Sara-they're such a pretty flower 😀
I loved how the men took charge of the cleaning and cooking. And I loved the gratitude expressed! What good people you are. I learned a lot by watching
Thank you so much!
@@CelebratingAppalachia The pleasure is all mine.
We don’t have ramps but our yard is full of wild garlic every spring and early summer So we learned to harvest it during the pandemic and had it then and still do in season It’s delicious Thanks
I only got to go once when I was 8 or so, but this brought back some memories!
I have 3 gallon freezer bags that were dug in the mountains of West Virginia. I love the fresh mountain air and exercise.
I’ve never heard of Ramps, but would love to try some. That’s about as close to the fresh earth as you can get. It looked Sooooo GOOD!! Would sure like to be walking in those woods with y’all. ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
Judy-they're good! I hope you get to try them sometime. Thank you for watching 😀
Ramps aka wild leeks, so many ways to enjoy them. Leek cheese is one of my favorites
Ah leeks! Now i know what they are lol thank u
Have a similar plant in England called Ransome which is a herb from the onion family brought over by the Normans in 1066 who were fond of it in there food.You can find it in the woods around castles tastes like spring onions only stronger enjoy your films thanks.
In West Virginia we actually have a “Feast of the Ramson Ramp Festival”. Different spin on the spelling but probably the same plant.
Hearing you speak reminds me of my people in Southern Arkansas and is music to my ears. Love your channel.
What a wonderful country way of life to travel the forests and hills harvesting nature’s wild bounty with family and friends . Thank you so much . Respect !!
Never was quite sure what a ramp was, now I'm ready! The gentleman Travis did an excellent demo on the processing of them, thank you Sir. Also thank you & your family for sharing......ATB
So glad you enjoyed it!
Just wondering why they didn't take those cut off roots and plant them, so the would replace what they took.
I've never heard of ramps until now. When I first saw this video I thought maybe you were out digging ditches or something lol. They look like onions.
I have fond memories of digging a mess one year near Asheville when I was a student at UNC-A. Took them to opening weekend of trout season at Edgemont NC and we enjoyed them in most of the meals. Great friends, bluegrass music, good food and trout fishing . . . can’t be beat!
This video brings back such sweet memories of my grandparents. Happy, innocent family times!
Have always wanted to go ramp hunting. Maybe one day will be blessed to do so before crossing over. Beautiful video thank you. 🍀
That is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. Thank you for sharing
😀 Thank you Tom!
Thank you for this video. I got so homesick
so you take care of nature to ensure next years harvest ..live in harmony with nature ..perfect life ..bless you
I live in Jefferson NC and it was great to see the pics of the trillium and the bloodroot plants, great ramp cooking.
Ramps, I remember hunting bear on black mountain NC and eating breakfast with eggs bacon and fried potatoes with ramps. I got in trouble in High School cause I brought ramps to school and kept them in my locker, the whole hallway was filled with that pungent smell way more than onion or garlic, after removing them the smell was still there the next day. I love Ramps
This is the second time I have ever heard of them. I’m going to have to keep my eyes out for them for now on. Thanks for sharing
I've never found ramps where I live (after years of searching, hopefully someday), but man this reminds me so much of my home in south central Pennsylvania. I cant wait for spring!!
God bless you I hope to live another 10 year any way lots a trout lillies looks like. I wish I could meet you all. I still visit Cherokee north Carolina and bryson some,, you all. Are just good old mountian people .I know that cause I have met people just like y'all. I worked at a saw mill. When was young we all was just good old mountian folk. Around swain and Jackson. Any way. Good to see good folks are still,around y'all take care,,,
Thank you Duane!