RICHWOOD — For nearly 50 years ... Saturday during the 70th Feast of the Ramson, the granddaddy of ramp feeds in West Virginia. “He would go out front and ask everybody how they liked the ...

“The ramp festival is what we’re all about,” explained Beth Donaldson, 58, of Richwood. “We’re the oldest ramp feed in West Virginia. That’s certainly one of our most cherished claims ...

In Richwood, West Virginia, as many as 2,000 people are expected to attend ... Chamber of Commerce President Mary Jane Williams said. “You can tell it’s ramp festival time all over town.” Williams ...

But the festival marks an annual return for many Richwood natives ... to the mountains of West Virginia. "This is my first time tasting ramps and my first time to the ramp festival," says Comisky.

Ramps were inextricably bound up in Appalachian identity: Jim Comstock, the publisher of the West Virginia Hillbilly, a now-defunct newspaper published in Richwood, once added ramp juice to his ...

Other Richwooders prepare ramp salsa, ramp jelly, and pickled ramps to sell. The festival in Richwood is just one of many ramp festivals held in small towns March through May. The number of ...

Apprentice cook Ryan McClung sautées ramps for the 2012 ramp festival in Richwood, West Va. In the town of Richwood, West Va., the self-proclaimed "Ramp Capital of the World," ramp diggers ...