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| Name | Appalachian Ramps (Allium tricoccum) |
| Video Uploader | Video From TeachEthnobotany |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 12-06-2012 19:26:26 |
| Video Discription | This is a presentation given by James Chamberlain at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. ABSTRACT: Appalachian Ramps (Allium tricoccum): Bear Garlic of a different name Introduction: Allium triccocum (ramps, wild leeks), an early spring ephemeral herb are native to the Appalachian hardwood forests of eastern United States. When Scot-Irish immigrants in the early 1700s travelled through this region, in the spring, they smelled a familiar plant. These settlers brought with them traditional ecological knowledge about Allium ursinum (bear garlic) that they had been collecting and eating for generations. The early immigrants may have carried some of these onions when they immigrated as the plants will store for a long time and could have provided hold over food. The Scots-Irish immigrants settled in what is now western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Each spring, after a long winter without greens, they would forage onions from nearby forests. In the mid-1900s, civic groups started organizing festivals to celebrate ramps and the coming of spring. They would generate significant revenues from these annual ramp festivals to support community causes. Objectives: In the spring of 2000, the Southern Research Station of the Forest Service initiated a long-term study to understand the impacts of ramp festivals on the plant and human communities in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Methods: Various methods, including interviews, harvesting with groups, and measuring plants, were used to collect information on the festivals and the plants. Results: The study found that thousands of pounds of this small onion are harvested to support the ramp festivals. This amounted to millions of plants. Plant parts were quantified, and correlations between above and below-ground biomass were estimated. Most ramp festivals only use the bulb and throw away more than 45 percent of the edible portion of the plant. Over the nine years that ramps were sampled from patches from which the groups would harvest, the size of plants decreased in size. A strong correlation was found between above and below-ground plant parts that will aid in efforts to inventory this natural resource. Conclusion: Over the last 10 years, commercial interest in ramps has increased tremendously. Fancy restaurants in distant big city now offer ramps from the study area. People can purchase these delicacies over the Internet and at natural food stores across the nation. This increased demand for the spring ephemeral is putting undue pressure on plant populations and will lead to the demise of the species if efforts are not made to manage the harvest. Current harvest levels are not sustainable and threaten a way of life that is steeped in tradition. AUTHORS: CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA DISCLAIMER: Content provided in this video and the YouTube TeachEthnobotany site is for educational purposes only. |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | Society for Economic Botany | ethnobotany | Non-Timber Forest Products | Sustainable Harvest | Forest Onions |
