We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.
Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!
We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!
Ramps
ramps
Allium tricoccum
Hardy perennial
Attracts pollinators
Edible flowers
Edible perennial
Tolerates shade
sign Mar 2016
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Ramps are a wild onion native to the eastern US and Canada. They grow in the thick duff of the dappled shade in the understory of somehat open forest canopies. Ramps appreciate the moist summers of the east, so it’s best to water them a bit in our dry summers. They multiply some, but don’t spread very quickly.
The strap-like onion leaves appear very early in spring, and the little white clusters of flowers appear quite early as well. Each clump of leaves indicates the presence of a shallot-like bulb that is super delicious. They have a really unique flavor that is more tasty than your average onion. The leaves are edible as well.
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