Preserving Ramps: Freezing and Dehydrating 

Here in WV, ...ramps are a serious topic that people mostly refuse to talk about in polite society. Much like ginseng and moonshine stills, their locations are well guarded (and well protected) secrets. Everyone here is very "Copperhead Road" about our ramp patches. Trespassing in WV would be a very, very "Wrong Turn" mistake to make anyways, ...but things can really get out of hand over ramps and ginseng. You might even hear a local magistrate say something like, "Walter, ...dang it, ...you had no right to beat that man unconscious! It's not like you caught him in your ramp patch!" (I'm not even kidding)

Blessings from Chicago. I get them from the farmers market. I dehydrate them and mix them with green onions and green garlic. I give jars to friends that cook a lot. I use the leaves with spinach and cilantro to make green rice.❤❤

You can dehydrate the leaves, then powder them and jar that as a spice. We mix it with salt and other things for spice rubs.

ramp pesto - neat idea. Even having ramp rings or ramp leaf rings .... could even make a great gazpaucho dip with them.

Wow this is a great Idea I make this with Basil ! never thought of Ramps !!!!

Love this channel, you are best and only that talks about ramps. Most city folk are just crazy. You got my support forever. Thanks for the share, great video, PP.

I like that you show the successes and the fails. Do's and don'ts. Awesome video/tutorial!

Yes we have onions that grow year round here but we don't have these delicious ramps. I freeze a lot of my onion greens every time I harvest and getting lots of babies on my walking onions now ready to harvest in about a week for me.

Good grief! I'm 64 yrs. old and this is the first time I've even heard of a ramp! Wow! Since you mentioned about breath guessing it's in the onion family, and grows wild I take it. Can you regrow it like green onions? Amazing. I am going to Google this pronto. As always your videos are awesome and I thank you for sharing. Blessings!😊🙏🌺 You have a lovely place and are a hardworking lady.🐾

Thanks, I just got some from the farmers market and will be using some and dehydrating powder.

You can buy ramp seeds. They take long time to germinate according to info under seeds. Long time to get patch you can cut.

A lot of very good ideas on how to store ramps. Thanks for sharing my friend.

We have ramps all over the place here in Arlington, VT. We call them leeks around here. Just foraged some today and preparing to freeze them. 👍

Nice. I'm actually trying to cultivate ramps. :)

Thank you for this because I was literally dreaming about ramps last night

I have never heard of ramps. Gotta go do some research now. Thank you.

Oh No!!! Not Soylent Green! It's People!!! Soylent Green is People!!! No! Everyone Stop, They're feeding us People!!! What a great old movie!!! I will be on the hunt for these! I don't know if they grow this far south? I know dandelions are big here! But I guess I'm not a die hard fan of them!!! On occasion my Mother In LOVE makes poke salad with them! She puts them with scrambled eggs at breakfast! Maybe Ramps are what we call wild onions! Hey Google... LOL! Anyway, Thanks for the video! I just love that you are a wealth of information! Have a Greasy Weekend! Love and Hugs!

Thanks

Great video thanks for sharing the information. Details like you give make a big difference. Have a great day.

Take the dried leaves and grind into a powder..that way you can get some of the flavor

Ramps? Im not sure i have ever heard of them

These ballbs are made for walking and talking, not even gonna think about freezing my ramps off !

I have only seen ramps on one hillside. It was on the application trail in NC I think?

Thanks for sharing you info!! I do not have a food vacuum sealer and now am in research mode! Are you satisfied with the one you use? If so what make is it? Thanks!!!

Ramp butter is the bomb difgoty

Thx Dear. Wish I knew a place to find them

Do you think the dehydrated leaves would make a good herb butter?

They are big

Hi. Do you think the dehydrated leaves could be crumbled and used like you would oregano or rosemary?

You need a new salad spinner!

I am 70 years old but i have never herd of ramps. Are they like an onion?

Ok may sound like a silly question. Why did you spin them?

Soylent Green! Ewww!! But love the sound of this recipe!

no pickling ?

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have you eveer made a soup with them

Nvr heard of it.

Very country dish. Good for what ails you. Lol

"Solyant" Green? I think you mean "Soylant" Green.