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03/20/2025

03/18/2025

The Ramp , Ramsom, and the wild garlic that’s not a garlic but a leek and they are coming out soon .

Often elusive and who's hunting grounds are highly prized and guarded by gatherers. We are now farming both types of ramps and the first is the European Ramp or Allium Ursinum and the second of these,the American Ramp known as Allium tricoccum. It is a bulb-forming perennial with broad, smooth, light green leaves, often with deep purple or burgundy tints on the lower stems, and a scallion-like stalk and bulb. Both the white lower leaf stalks and the broad green leaves are edible. The flower stalk appears after the leaves have died back, unlike the similar Allium ursinum, in which leaves and flowers can be seen at the same time. Going by many names like wild garlic, wild Leek, bears Garlic or ramsons,Ramps grow in close groups strongly rooted just beneath the surface of the soil.
Chicago received its name from a dense growth of ramps near Lake Michigan in Illinois Country observed in the 17th century. The Chicago River was referred to by the plant's indigenous name, according to explorer Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, and by his comrade, the naturalist and diarist Henri Joutel. The plant, called shikaakwa (chicagou) in the language of local native tribes, was once thought to be Allium cernuum, the nodding wild onion, but research in the early 1990s showed the correct plant was the ramp.
The Ramps are now protected in many areas because of overharvesting

The Ramp has strong associations with the folklore of the central Appalachian Mountains. Fascination and humor have fixated on the plant's extreme pungency. Jim Comstock, editor and co-owner of the Richwood News Leader, introduced ramp juice into the printer's ink of one issue as a practical joke,invoking the ire of the U.S. Postmaster General.

The inhabitants of Appalachia have long celebrated spring with the arrival of the ramp, believing it to be a tonic capable of warding off many winter ailments. Indeed, ramp's vitamin and mineral content did bolster the health of people who went without many green vegetables during the depression.
The Menominee, Cherokee, Iroquois, Potawatomi and Ojibwa all consume the plant in their traditional cuisines.

The Cherokee also eat the plant as a spring tonic, for colds and for croup. They also use the warm juice for earaches.The Ojibwa use a decoction as a quick-acting emetic.The Iroquois also a decoction of the root to treat worms in children, and they also use the decoction as a spring tonic to "clean you out".

Troublesome too many dairy, farmers, because it taints the milk some have created ramp based cheese like Kaserei Kraus Rampe Kase in Bavaria which is even mixed with the greens and Cornish Wild Garlic Yarg which is wrapped in ramp leaves . Both cheeses come from cows that have grazed on these tasty treats

Genetically speaking, both of these are technically wild Leeks

03/17/2025

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03/17/2025

Plant for them

03/15/2025

The Ridge one Winter past…

03/15/2025

03/15/2025

These are the Seeds we will plant… as a former High Mowing Organic Seeds Retailer, I can’t wait to begin sowing !

03/15/2025

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03/07/2025

This photo was taken from the roof of my grandmother’s passive solar home in the mountains of New Hampshire.

She was in her mid 60s when she started a new life here after remarrying a man with a dream.

She always had the most beautiful flower and vegetable gardens, and she re-created them on this new land, despite battling huge boulders and sandy soil.

She is my inspiration to manifest a community space and return to a simpler way of living off the land.