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When Bob Lusk was here about a month ago, a bunch of us were sittin' around laughin' and scratchin' when Bob asked what WV was known for. Coal came up. Tourism, fishin', and huntin' came up. But everybody agreed that "ramps" were probably the most universally known WV identifier -- at least locally.

This morning, a good friend wasn't in church. About the time we got home from church, we got a phone call from his wife asking if we'd be home for a little while. Her husband had some ramps for us, which he knew I've been wanting to try growing. We seem to have perfect growing areas, but there just aren't any ramps on our property. I just needed to find some healthy wild specimens. He'd been visiting his dad's woodland farm in the very cold and snowy mountains between us and where Todd 3138 lives, and just south of Sunil's pond.

A little bit later, he arrived with about a bushel of freshly dug ramps. For anyone who doesn't know about WV ramps, they are a wild leek that is especially pungent. Eating too many of them, and their odor will actually ooze out of your pores for several days.

So, this afternoon, I planted several hundred of them on and around the stream banks on our property.

If they take off along my stream banks, I may not have to season my fish when we cook them.

Ken, the wild onions are popping up around here. While they aren't much to look at, (maybe 3/8" dia) they are great in soups. Small but strong. Do you want some to take back home? I can bring a few clumps along.

Scott -- thanks but, no thanks. The ramps we have will do me quite well.

We also have wild onions. The tops of our wild onions look like chives, and they have little white bulb. I've never tried them. I know they are a problem for dairy farmers.
Apparently if the cows eat them, it give the milk a strong onion flavor.

O.K. Those are the exact same ones that are here.

Wild hogs love them... There are huge areas on the State Game Lands next to our land in PA where the hogs tore the ground up to get at the wild onions and ramps.