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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Woody Boggs in the ramp patch that he planted on the hill behind his home. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
April 11, 1996
Notes
As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp patches on slopes rising away from houses on Coal River got their start in this manner. The soil has to be rich and there has to be room for the patch to spread downhill. Not many patches are as large as the one smothering the hill behind Woody Boggs' log cabin in Pettry Bottom, which Woody started with ramps he dug on Hazy Creek in the 1980s.
Event: Visit to Woody Boggs's cabin and ramp patch.
Subjects
Spring
April
Gardens
Dig wild greens
Ramps (Allium tricoccum)
Souvenir planting
Ramp patches
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Woody Boggs' Ramp Patch
Pettry Bottom, WV
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Boggs, Woody
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C077-08
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec07708
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec07708