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Ramps, wild onion, wild garlic. These are some of our best wild foods come springtime. More than 100 species of wild alliums call North America home — allium being the genus covering both onions and garlic — but it is the Eastern ramp, Allium tricoccum, that has been all the rage among chefs in recent years. They’ve become so popular I even see chefs here in California using them with abandon; no native ramp grows within 2,000 miles of San Francisco or Los Angeles. | @huntgathercook

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Ramps have become an extremely popular wild food every spring, where you can see them featured on restaurant menus far beyond their natural range, which is from the East Coast to the Great Plains. You can even find them in farmer’s markets. A general rule with ramps is that they work in any recipe for green onions or scallions, or, if you get ramp bulbs later in spring, you can treat them like boiling onions. | @huntgathercook #rampsrecipes #howtocookwithramps #learnhowtoharvestramps

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Wild onions (Allium species) are some of the first plants to pop up in middle Tennessee. This year their bright green tufts began poking their heads up at the end of January. Tennessee has wildly fluctuating weather. One winter day can be near 70 degrees while the next day is 30 degrees with an ice storm. Some years you have more near 70 degree weather than others and the poor confused plants start blooming early. I actually used this to my advantage when I brought my soon to be husband home…

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