They look like shorter spring onions with slightly rounder bulbs, short reddish stalks, and leafier leaves.

The plant itself is entirely edible.

So people have used both the bulb stalk, as we would call it, the shaft that runs down to the roots, as well as the foliage.

And indeed, people have also used the flowers as well.

So they have a flavor profile that is often described as being intermediate between garlic and onions.

And so even if someone is responsible and just takes a small amount of a large patch of ramps, well, today they may not be the only person who's found that patch, and maybe someone decided to share the location on the internet.

And so even if they have the best intentions, for example, a lot of people will say, well, I never remove more than 10% of a population, right? That sounds great, right? We're only taking one out of every 10 plants, but that's you.

What about the next person that comes behind you and says, I only remove one out of every 10 plants.

What would you recommend people do if they do want to sample a pawpaw?

Yeah.

Well, you know, the nice thing about tree fruit, pawpaw being a tree fruit, is that it's a pretty easy fruit.

thing to promote stewardship, unlike, for example, ramps.

And so the distinction here is, is the harvest activity destructive or non-destructive? And it's typically not just thought of that way by foragers, but by people who regulate these resources, right? So people like DCNR who are trying to figure out what the impact of foragers on a particular resource might be on their property.

We kind of bring it back to, well, does removal of this resource create minus one in the population? Is it a destructive practice or is it kind of just incidental or benign to the species? So when we think of non-destructive harvesting, we're often thinking about the fruiting bodies of mushrooms.

We're thinking about the fruits coming off of a shrub like blueberries.

So pawpaws are,