A Rant About Ramps

Why I harvest wild onion bulbs, and why you should, too.

Hang on, it’s going to get a little spicy around here.

It’s ramp season in Minnesota, and it’s been spring onion season in most of the country for a while now; it should continue into July in the mountains of the West. Ramps, wild onion, wild garlic, whatever you call them, are some of our best springtime wild foods. They get me excited.

But for some rea…