Happy birthday Bob! May God bless you with many more SWEM and long walks with wild delicious goods!
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Belated happy birthday, Bob. May the Lord grant you many more.
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They look like a long handled shoe horn! Are they bitter or more like a general vegetable sort of taste?
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They are more of a garlic taste.
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Do they go by another name?
Bob
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Leaks is what I know them as, I have never found any but I’m told we have them here in Washington
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I would say that it could be plant we usually call bear’s garlic, lat. Allium ursinum. But it Is not easy, because this genus Is very broad with many plants similar to each other. It has many other names according to Wikipedia, containing leek and ramp as well.
My mom had a patch of it in the corner of her garden.
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Is that a promise? Cant wait!
What phone did you get?
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Homesteaders I am involved with think those ramps are great. They actually plant and cultivate them. They grow like weeds around here. I have big patches all through the woods on my property. They think I"m bullshitting them. That and wood nettle which is pretty much the same as stinging nettle. Stinging nettle is a high value medicinal plant. I have never paid any attention to the ramps at all until they started raving about them. SteveU mentioned Euell Gibbons. I only just started learning about foraging foods about 8 years ago. So much to learn and so little time.
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I got a free some kind of android from TracFone because they said my old I phone would stop working in March. 
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Happy birthday Bob
God bless
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Damn that’s funny Don!
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You made me choke on my own spit Don. 
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It is time to harvest some wild crops. Down along the river banks in rocky cobble is the wild onion that springs up this time of year.
Oh yes at @Norman89 we have seen some wild asparagus too starting to spring up out of the gound after all this rain we have had for the last week. Just part the 15% yearly rain fall for the year.
The irrigation water started coming down the cannel 35 miles away out of the Wenatchee River on the 10th , and this is the 11th, it will soon be in our upper cannel for irrigation.
Bob
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Are you preserving these in some way bob?
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Yes Dana is drying them. And then uses a spice grinder blades the came with our coffee grinder, it has two different cups for grinding. Then we bottle it in a shaker top type container. 100% better then store bought. We also cook with it fresh as long as we can pick it. It will flower later on. These onions came just below the house at the river 3 hundred yards away from us.
Bob
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