Taking leeks in the woods . . .(the kind you eat)

Early Spring here and nice to see a few things with color sprouting up.

Went out today in our woods on top of the mountain facing the south valley to pick wild leeks. Over a full acre of them there. Deer have already been eating them.

My favorite wife is going to make leek pie tonight. One of my favorites along with rhubarb.

Also found some blue cohosh coming up, along with some yellow flowers in a very dark spot.

And our dog was very happy to find a deer leg to chew on.

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That wouldnt by chance be a tree stand to hunt deer out of it would it.
JR.FRYE

We use leeks as a substitute for green onion. Friend grows them in his garden, but I never heard of leek pie. How do you make it?

Hi jde Have close friends who live in the Caroga Lake area, southern Adirondacks,( Hense where part of my handle came from) For the last 15yrs. or so we all migrate back to a hunting camp, acessable with 4WD PUs and wheelers.(ATVs) The gathering happens on mothers day weekend. It's called LEEK FEST. Every one brings their prize cullinary delights made from wild game, fish, bird, and you gussed it Leeks.Generally it starts slow on friday with a few guys getting the camp in order. Sat. the group begins to increase a bit and some of the cooking begins on the wood stove. Takes a day or so, and a few brown bottles to create a perfect stew or soup. Sunday the party begins. People start showing on their wheelers and PUs., bringing some of the best eats you ever had. This year is going to be the best yet, rain or shine as we know how to strech blue canvases between trees. The gentelman in his 70s who owens the camp had a poor spell last year and it was cancled, but he's good now and ready for a special gathering complete with a really popular redneck band. Good thing they can make music without electricity. they also have a million jokes that only a redneck would enjoy. Good Friends, Good Food ,and Good Times. Hard to beat in this day and age!!

can yiu tell us more about leek pie please?

Find any ticks? Their out here in Missouri.

We got some last Saturday but they were still pretty small then. We're in northern Oswego county so it sometimes runs a little later up here.
Zach

Jd, Have you ever eaten nettles? I read an article recently about how wonderful they are in the spring. I would have a real hard time trying that first mouthful knowing what they do to my hands.

We"re a full month away from leeks here just off the Tug Hill, but when they come I"ll be out a-digging! Be interested in hearing about leek pie myself--most of mine end up eaten raw, or pickled, though fried up with venison is also a treat.

Add this to the list of things that I know nothing about or have ever heard of. WHAT are leeks what do they taste like? (chicken probably)where do they grow?

those look like ramps to me

i planted leek sunday morning in the garden before the easter bunny got up!! have my red, white and yellow onions in too. this weekend will be potatoes, grapes, blackberries, rasberries and blueberries. maybe a couple more fruit trees too. have the tomatoes and peppers started in the house, be a little while before they go in the ground!! if the weather holds out, may even get some corn planted!!

Yeah, I know. I've got a cabin and 50 acres of woods and wetlands on top of Tug Hill. Little town of Worth. No Post Office there anymore. Mail goes to town of Lorraine next door. Spring always seems to be a month later there, then here. Very remote area, yet I can hear the big guns going off once in awhile at the Ford Drum military base.

Wild leeks, wild onions, or ramps are all the same thing. Techincally, named Allium Tricoccum.

Yes. My wife teaches wood cooking and native plant cooking, so I've been subjected to eating nettles, marsh marigolds, cattails, and many other things from the woods and swamps. Timing is important with much of it, especially nettles.

Yes it is, but not built by me. I find tree stands all over our woods and I'm constantly tearing them down. People sneak in during hunting saason and put them up, even though they're tresspassing. I DO let some people hunt, but they don't build stands.

It's funny how different areas have different ways to hunt deer. Here in central NY, there are many tree stands around. Up in northern Michigan, seems everyone has a little "outhouse" type hunting shed they hide in, and often bait piles made of sugar beets.

J, I have a general idea of where your place is.
I knew a Ron Hunt (died a few years ago), a farmer who was married to a girl from Summit who I knew since I was a kid.
I also have a friend from New Orleans who owns upwards of 300 acres on Furnaceville Rd. just outside Decatur.
It is beautiful country "up there" and I mean that literally.

Friends and I ate a lot of marsh marigolds when we were kids .Cooked them in a fruit juice can with a wire bail for a handle.We called them cow slips.Some butter or margerine and salt and we spent the day cooking them.Heard they are poisonous, mabey thats what wrong with me.

Yeah, they're poisonous to a degree. You're supposed to boil them and drain the water once, before eating. As far a names go, they're called many things in many areas. "Cow Slip" came from the British. The scientific name, translated, means "plant that grows where frogs are."

There is a chapter in one of the Foxfire books about Jake Waldroop an old fellow who had high blood pressure.Doc tried several meds with no results.Jake talked with an old lady who told him to eat a lot of Ramps.He tried it and blood pressure dropped.Some times old folks have the answers.A farmer came into my shop had a big bandage on his fore arm.He said doc told him it was an allergy to hay.I asked what happened,he said that after picking up hay 2 spots on his fore arm hurt and developed a sack of pus.He was going back to the doc to have the bandage changed.I told him to tell the Doc to look up brown recluse spider bites.I had seen this before and some bad wounds develope from recluse bites.