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I know there's a bunch of "Stinky Pee Weed" (Asparagus) in the Denver metro area but I can't find it. The people that know where the patches are, are pretty tight lipped about it. I guess I'll keep looking......
I won't go into all the wild edibles that I forage for, just the new addiction. I harvested 50 pounds of ramps between April 24 and May 7 in 1 honey spot ! I made a ton of pesto, chip dip and just eating them raw, but also sold half to local restaurants at an average of $ 11 per pound. Chefs in the Hudson Valley are crazy about them. I pocketed $ 260 from selling to restaurants. Can't wait to do it again next year
Be careful on overharvesting the ramps. They take up to 7 years to grow back in the areas you harvest after you pick them. Best thing to do is selective harvest and try to find different patches of them to rotate your harvests. Multiple patches should be easy to find in generally the same area that you found the patch you did that have the same soil and environment conditions.
Yes I know there are a lot of articles on how slow they are to grow. I went a little overboard at this spot but didn't take more than half of them. The recommendation is to take something like 1/3 at most. It is the same exact spot that I harvest wineberries from every July. I make excellent jam from the wineberries. They are not the best bramble eaten raw, but the jam is terrific and it is easy to harvest 20 quarts in a day with a couple kids helping out.
Wine berries Rock! They do make great jelly and are quite prolific. Although, the berry brambles do seem to move around a bit....they will be really heavy for a while in one area, then seem to pick up and move 50 yards to another place. They make an awesome crumble too.....Mix them and blueberries for a good paeleo desert....lots of recipes on the inter web.
Nice Warrior. I'm sure they'll be fine if you left more than half. Like I said in my earlier post you could always do a little searching around in the same general area and find other patches that you could harvest from as well. We get loads of them that grow around our cabin. Could fill an entire pickup bed heaping with them every year without even making hardly a dent with all the patches of them we've found over the years. Kind of neat to see some of the first green plants pop up right when our maple syrup season is ending. Those wine berries sound similar to chokecherries. They are bitter if eaten raw but they make great homemade jam and brandy. Happy foraging.