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Speaking of Ramps,
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Here in western NC, I usually find them on north-facing slopes in cove hardwoods above about 3000' elevation. You will have to get into the N GA mountains with similar conditions to find them. I'd say Rabun, Towns, and Union Counties are gonna be about your only bet in GA. And they aren't everywhere, they're quite localized.
C.Killmaster
Georgia Deer Biologist
Do you know about when they start showing up?
Here, usually around the first week of April. They grow until about mid-late May, then the leaves turn yellow and die back to the ground. In midsummer, the flower stalk comes up, with no leaves. The seed pods are persistant into early winter.
C.Killmaster
Georgia Deer Biologist
Thanks, I've been wanting to hunt some down lately.
There's some in Northern White Co. and Lumpkin as well just gotta know where.
whitetailfreak
Senior Member
Same around here, east Murray, Gilmer, Fannin.
C.Killmaster
Georgia Deer Biologist
For small amounts for personal use, yes except in designated wilderness. Anything you plan to sell or collect a lot of requires a forest products permit from USFS.
Thanks for the info, I guess i'll have to take a day trip up to the N GA. Mtns to look for a few. I like using them in recipes and even eating them raw.
They grew wild around my uncles dairy farm in Michigan and i remember
one time when the cows got into them and ate them. When you miked the cows the whole dang barn smelled like onions/garlic!!!!!!!!!!! made your eyes water
They grew wild around my uncles dairy farm in Michigan and i remember
one time when the cows got into them and ate them. When you miked the cows the whole dang barn smelled like onions/garlic!!!!!!!!!!! made your eyes water
When I was a kid and we had a milk cow, dad would make me go around the pasture and dig up all the wild field garlic, it had the same effect.
You can probably sell some organic garlic milk to the hipsters now a days NC. Tell them it works great in an alfredo or something.
Dub
Senior Member
Hipster cheese. 
dwhee87
GON Political Forum Scientific Studies Poster
What are 'ramps'?
Allium tricoccum, a delicious wild plant in the onion family that grows in the woods and has a strong odor and flavor. They call them wild leeks up north. Digging and eating them in the spring is a long tradition here in the mountains. My town even has a big ramp festival every year. Big-time chefs have picked up on them the last few years.
deermaster13
Senior Member
I have some good friends up in Western nc. We camped in catalooche a week fishing and we ate them scrambled in our eggs. Fine eating!
Snowbear Tyler brought some down when we were doing a show together a couple of years ago and gave me a mess of them. I scrambled them with eggs and they were mighty good. I bet they would go well in hushpuppies too.
Best hushpuppies on the planet.
onedude
Senior Member
Do they taste like onions? Do you eat the tops also?
