What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are here with

Marie Phil Jun. She is a forager. She's a writer. The author of Forge Harvest

Feast. And so we've talked a little bit about her backstory,

as well as just general tips for foraging

in an urban environment, but I know many of you

are less experienced foragers or perhaps

more interested in gardening of course it's the

epic gardening podcast so what we're talking about is both how to forage for

ramps in today's episode but also how you might cultivate these in a garden and I'm actually really curious about that

myself Marie so first of all ramps is a weird word for a plant can we explain

first what these actually are? So ramps are a very delicious wild onion and it has a

botanical name like all plants do and the botanical name for ramp is

Alium Tricocum. do in the botanical name for ramp is

Allium Tricocum.

All onions are Alium, as you know, very, very well.

And ramps are an indigenous Native American onion, indigenous pretty much I would say in the

northeast. So where I live is ramp central and then they go all the way down south sorry southerners to I would say

Alabama big ramp country I think ramps used to be treated as weeds they were so

prolific and in terms of eating, they have a really

fleshy, crunchy root, like most onions. You can eat the whole stem and you can eat the leaves,

which are very very

flavorful.

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