Food

Recipe For Ramp Dip From the WV Department of Agriculture

It’s the season of Ramps, Fried Potatoes and all the fixins’, but the WV Department of Agriculture are offering their own ideas for using the native wildflowers that grace the woods in spring. Ramps is one of few that is considered a vegetable. Allium tricoccum – commonly known as ramps but also is sometimes called wild leek, Read More…

Human Interest

Wild Ramps in West Virginia

By Brian Sparks, WVU Extension Agent – Fayette and Nicholas    Ramps announce the arrival of spring in the woods. Many folks eagerly anticipate using the savory plants as a spring tonic to get them out of the winter blues. Ramps are known as wild leeks, which are native to West Virginia. They belong to the lily family Read More…