EQUINUNK, PA – Bring your friends and family to Delaware Valley Ramps in Equinunk, PA to celebrate the arrival of spring by harvesting your own bounty of ramps! 

Ramps are the first edible green plant of spring. Also known as wild leeks, they are related to garlic and onions and grow wild in the forests of the Upper Delaware River watershed. Highly prized by locals and chefs, they can be used in a variety of dishes to herald the arrival of spring.

“Digging ramps is a way of experiencing the arrival of spring in the woods with the reward of putting fresh local food on the table” says Steven Schwartz, Chief Forager of Delaware Valley Ramps.

They will show you how to harvest, wash and store them and sustainably manage a ramps patch. Practices like selecting only mature ramps that have reproduced and need to be thinned, harvesting only ramp leaves, replanting ramp basal plates and roots after harvesting bulbs and forest management will be discussed. You will see forest edibles like fiddlehead ferns, nettles and maybe even a morel as well as other beautiful spring ephemerals like trout lily and bloodroot that emerge at the same time as ramps. 

Recipes will be available to take home to cook up the ramps you dig. Free treats, like ramp hummus, pickled ramps and ramp quiche, will be served. Tools and equipment are provided on site right on the Delaware River. 

The Ramps U-Pick season runs from Friday, April 24 through Sunday, May 10. Delaware Valley Ramps will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the season and this is a ticketed 2 hour event with no more than 10 tickets per 2 hour period. Tickets are $65 per person and are available at https://Ramps-U-Pick-2026.eventbrite.com/?aff=press.

Delaware Valley Ramps has been commercially harvesting ramps for delivery to leading restaurants and wholesalers in New York City and the region for the last 19 years. Over the years some friends and customers have come to harvest on the property and experience the early spring woods coming to life. Now they are opening this experience up to the general public.