The ramps is up!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!

Edited March 26, 200917 yr by brucegodlesky

Wow greens! Still 3 feet of snow on the ground over hear lol.

Nice! We ain't too far behind y'all.

I believe the politically correct term is "appalachian americans"...

I've heard Larry Harley refer to himself as a HillWilliam. (BOG)

sweeet. I wanna go to the ramp festival in WVA.

cherokee's (me) made the whole town eat them together so that no one could be offended by the smell

Dan, can I advise you not to be calling us'uns from the Ozarks "Appalachian Americans" as we don't take kindly to that at all!

Still about a foot on the ground here but the temps been in the 40's today so it's going fast. Still it won't be greening up for a month or so.

Does living in the Valley make me a valleybillie? Maybe a dalebillie?

Maybe I don't qualify at all, my parent's weren't related.

Frosty

We got dogwoods blooming. Fishing is upon us.

Hillbilly is a perfectly acceptable term if you know what it means. Some picture of a xxxx holding an old truck up while another changes a tire is just funny.

Nope; makes you a low lander lessen that valley is way up in a holler somewhere!

I was born in NW AR and will be getting some family land in a little place up there someday.

right now I live in a valley myself---at close to 5000' above sea level...

Well I live on a 400' high ridge, lateral moraine actually, in a valley a couple miles from Cook Inlet, just 100 miles or so from a smokin mountain. . . . Yeah . . . low lander.

Frosty

We call 'em ramsons round here. The campus is largely covered in 'em but nothing doing yet. Very tasty, though you do get the occasional odd look from the 'it's a plant and he's eating it, how dirty' brigade if they see. Not that I care.

JP, what smell????? (BOG)

That's OK Frosty, I'll still talk with you; I mean it's not like you're a northerner too----Oh! Wait a minute! We'll just pretend you're from Georgia if any of the kinfolk ask and you can explain that it's a province in Russia...

well, out here we may not be hillbillies but we shonuff backwoods,considering all the ceder thickets and mesquitebut we southern by the grace of god.....

I used to live in the south and I've lived in the hills. I live an easy drive from the hills now, can see REAL mountains from here, some are even spewing molten rock and ash as I speak and if it's clear I can see it from the hills. I have my own patch of woods, some critters to feed and mess with, a shop, no building codes to scorn.

Best of all there aren't many backwuhds suthnus to try interpreting hereabouts.

It's a little slice of heaven.

Frosty

Being from Maine I like spring greens.. but what are ramps??? .... just cause we're off the hill don't mean we are no longer hillbillies....

C
We eat them every way imaginable for about 2 months. Then they go back into the ground till next yr.
Great thing to eat before the mother-in-law arrives. She'll stay away from ya :-)

, they are wild leeks. Just thinkling about them makes me smile. 

thought they looked a little oniony... I usually do dandelion greens... with salt pork.. or last summer chard from the freezer... with salt pork....

Well, I know the first time I went through the Ozark "Mountains" I was clean into Iowa before I realized I had been looking at them for the last 350 miles. I grew up at 6000 feet in Colorado and that didn't qualify as mountains. If you didn't pass out at least once a week from oxygen starvation, you were considered a flatlander.

ah yes, I heard one say" ifin ah deevorce mah wahf, is she still my sister?"

Oh man, if you could see the price they get for ramps in this neck of the woods...

And worth every penny.

we have signs around here "blind child area" and "deaf child area" I often wonder if it's because of the game the whole family can play?

Hey I have a friend who's his own uncle/nephew!

What do they bring out there DGH?

Last time I saw them available at Pike Place Market, they were going for $20 for a bundle about a third the size of a bundle of spinach from a conventional grocery store.

Wild foods are funny, they're either free or incredibly expensive.