selling for $30 a pound in new york city that we re harvesting in west virginia, and what s west virginia seeing from that? probably a guy that got about $2 a pound. emily hillard: it becomes just another extractive industry like coal or timber. and you sort of start to see that anthony: that s the story of west virginia. emily: yeah. anthony: chef mike costello and partner amy dawson are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciate it, and paying off locally for the region it originated in. “lost creek farm” is their place. and the nucleus of that effort is the garden. amy: we have two different varieties that we are picking today. the one are the logan giants. lou: this seed is logan giant seed. they re an heirloom strain of beans and i ve had these seeds for 40 years. mike: this guy down at the end of the table, lou, is in his
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If you haven’t heard, it’s ramps season. A comedy video from TikTok user Jake W. Cornell parodying a well-heeled Brooklyn dad panicking that his kid wouldn’t get to experience this year’s “ramps season” before it’s over has gone viral. “I’ve tried three markets, I’m literally in the park foraging right now and there are no ramps!” he yells into the phone at his husband.
The video has nearly a million views, and the comments are full of two types of people in particular those saying they also love ramps season, and those reasonably asking: What are ramps, and what the heck is a ramp season?
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Listen along now to the Pickle Shelf Radio Hour, episode 5: “Bigos, Big Does and Hunting While Black.“
Nature as a nurturing mother is a tired metaphor. But if you peel away the bucolic, romanticized layer on the surface, you’ll find out that there’s a price to be paid every time we demand that nurturing. Like putting expenses we can’t really afford on our credit cards, we often don’t want to see that price charged to our account. But there are rewards for living within your means.