OZARK MOUNTAIN GINSENG

  Ozark Mountain Ginseng is a family farm nestled in the Ozark Hills along Eleven Point River in southern Missouri.  We have been growing American Ginseng and other Medicinal Herbs since 1983.  If you want price list for ginseng seed or transplanting rootlets we send our price list   by postal mail.  If you want on mailing list please send postal address.  Farming American Ginseng will be the future for this plant.  Folks around here in the Ozarks have been ginseng harvesting in the wild  for over 100 years and is a tradition  where ginseng grows wild.  Back in the early 1980's I noticed the wild population of ginseng dwindling compared to ten years earlier  and when I go ginseng looking now where patches use to be there is almost none due to over harvesting.  So now we just plant seed here so to keep wild populations growing .   Ozark Mountain Ginseng is on UTUBE:  put on UTUBE search   "Ozark Mountain Ginseng farm tour" and should be able to see a tour of our farm .     If you have any questions about growing this "GREEN GOLD"  please email or phone us at the farm.  Our phone is:   (417)264-2448     Our email is:  lindy08@socket.net

Click here to view farm:  (you can double click on pictures to enlarge) 

http://agebb.missouri.edu/agforest/archives/v4n3/gh1.htm

Growing Information and Medicinal Herb Pictures This website has wonderful medicinal herb pictures along with history and medicinal uses:   Go to the Alternative Nature Online Herbal:  that is on this site for pictures and information on herbs.  Excellent site!

https://learnaboutherbs.com/

GROWING GINSENG:  This link goes to Mother Earth News, this link will say "OOPS" but that ok use the search engine and put "Growing Ginseng"  There is over 20 Mother Earth News articles so you will get more  links to read.  The Ginseng Handbook we sell is one of the articles: "Growing and Marketing of Ginseng and Golden Seal and Other Medicinal Herbs"  by Scott Persons and Jeanne Davis  Also alot of articles on growing ginseng in the forest.

https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/growing-ginseng-zmaz83jaznet

"GREEN GOLD" by Scott Persons  Mother Earth News

This is an excellent article on growing ginseng! A must read for growing ginseng in the woods!  Click link below for information and color pictures of ginseng:

https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/wild-ginseng-zmaz84sozraw

 Some wonderful books with pictures to take with you in woods to assist to identify plants associated  with growing ginseng and growing information:  This link will take you to the website, go to GINSENG and books are great!:   http://www.wildozark.com  This link not working you have to type in to work.  Hopefully I  will fix next month. 

GROWING  FACTS:  American Ginseng(Panax

Quinquifolium L.)  Ginseng is a perennial plant and takes  7 to 8  years to mature.  Growing conditions are very important for success.  Ginseng has to have about 75 % SHADE.  Your local extension office can do soil test.  Our soil here in Ozarks is low in phosphorous so we add this element to get better root growth.  Ginseng growers have seen over $100,000 per acre in profits.  Ginseng looks like a strawberry plant the first year and only has three leaves.  In the second year has five leaves and a second prong.  The third year the ginseng plant will produce seed.    We plant seed close together, you will get more pounds per acre this way.  Ginseng likes good drainage so planting on a slope is great.  We use a rear tined rototiller in the woods and work ground up 4 to 6 inches.  Making the ginseng grow beds are important, though once done will grow some nice ginseng plants.  The magazine article "GREEN GOLD" above by Scott Persons is  wonderful for learning about how to grow ginseng.  If you have any questions please email or phone the farm, we love to hear from folks.      Also added recently is the "wildozark" link above,   there is some great booklets to help identify plants in woods.   If you have any questions just give us a holler!  

Ozark Mountain Ginseng is on UTUBE

Lincoln University did a video a few years ago and is now edited and is twenty minutes so folks can visit farm from home.  Put Ozark Mountain Ginseng Farm Tour in UTUBE search engine .  We  donated ginseng seed to Lincoln University and they planted in research plots.

ORDERING INFORMATION:  Woodsgrown Ginseng seed and Woodsgrown ginseng transplanting rootlets and other Medicinal Herbs available.  Our price list this year is made by Vistaprint and is in brochure form and we can only send postal mail.      We only send our brochure and order form postal mail  Please phone at:(417)264-2448 or email at:   lindy08@socket.net        Dried  wild ginseng prices staying   about $500 to $1200  a pound dried for premium root.  The older the ginseng root the more valuable.   Usually price goes higher in December, depends upon Hong Kong and their politics there in China.  About 75%  American ginseng goes to China.   Even with economic trade and politics in China and Hong Kong ginseng will be in great demand there.    The University Missouri Extension had a workshop here with folks getting a tour of farm in early June 2019.       The "GINSENG GROW BOOK "  we have to offer  is the best book I have seen.  The description of book  is  below when ya scroll.  Visitors welcome to visit farm please phone  a few days ahead.   

JULY 2025 UPDATE:  Still getting alot of rain here on our farms.  Ginseng seed heads are extra large this year.  We are not needing to water our vegetable garden much either with all this rain.  We have had about 30 inches rain just in first six months of this year.  We will be harvesting red ginseng berries pretty soon, we wait until over half are red then get to picking sang berries.  This seed will be stratafied and will be ready next year for planting.    Our ginseng seed that will be  shipped to our customers is buried in ground and we get out of ground Labor Day and will be ready to be sent out to customers middle of September.  Yesterday planted our golden seal seeds into existing ginseng grow beds.

JUNE 2025 UPDATE:   We sent our brochures and order forms out this week to our customers.  We have a 10% off by July 15 so let us know postal address if you want to order.  We do not sell online, we are small family farm.  Our over 70 year old wild ginseng plants are up.     I do not harvest some  our older wild ginseng plants, this helps with genetics.   We have had alot of rain this spring.  Looking for some dryer weather. 

MAY 2025 UPDATE:  An exciting time of year at Ozark Mountain Ginseng.  Ginseng is sprouting up along with our other medicinal herbs.  Middle of May everything should be up.  Our Lady Slipper orchid is beautiful.  Looks   like a moccasin  and is a yellow medicinal orchid.  Golden Seal has formed green berries which will turn red in July.  Our Bloodroot plants have full pods and when pods start cracking we will harvest pods  and plant bloodroot seed.  Our vegetable garden sprouting up also.  We are sending out our brochures and order forms  first of June ,  we only send postal mail we do not sell online. 

APRIL 2025 UPDATE:   Finally we got all our ginseng seed planted.  With January and Feb. with frozen ground we had to wait for a thaw.  We just   had about 7 inches rain here and we sure needed some moisture.  Next day after rain our Bloodroot sprouted up.   Ginseng will come up in next 2 to 3 weeks with our ground so cold.  Getting ready to plant spring vegetable garden.    Our taters and radishes are up.  We plant radishes in hills of taters and radishes are done before tater leaves take over.  Come visit us if ya want to see  our Ginseng and Medicinal Herb farm.  We will be sending brochures out postal mail in June.

MARCH UPDATE 2025 UPDATE:  We finally getting some 70 degree days.  We have 8 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left for sale.  We will be planting all this month trying to catch up after our snowy winter.    This ginseng seed will sprout this spring.  If ya want to plant some GREEN  GOLD give us a holler.       

FEBRUARY 2025 UPDATE:   We have 12 pounds of our  woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left for sale.  Ginseng seed is cracked and will germinate this spring 2025.   Please phone or email,  we send our brochure  and order form out postal mail only .  We are going to have 70 degree weather here in southern Missouri this next week so we will be planting while the getting is good.  We had plenty  of cold and snow so am ready for spring .

JANUARY 2025 UPDATE:  We have about 30 pounds of our woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left for sale.  We will be planting when weather permits so if ya want some ginseng seed let us know we will plant seed if not sold.  We plant into March if we need .  You can take a Farm Tour of Ozark Mountain Ginseng from UTUBE.  Lincoln University here in Missouri did a video of our farm and is 20 minutes.  Put  Ozark Mountain Ginseng farm tour in UTUBE search and will come up.  Folks can visit in person to farm  May to September also please phone in advance.    Our ginseng seed is cracked and will sprout this spring 2025.  We send our brochure and order form only postal mail.  OK to phone or email if ya have questions.  Also we have some Ginseng Grow books in stock.    

DECEMBER 2024  UPDATE:  Time to plant ginseng seed here at Ozark Mountain Ginseng.  Ground is not frozen so we plant all the way until middle of March here in southern Missouri.  We have about 50 pounds of our woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left for sale.  What we do not sell we plant.  We have two HOLIDAY SPECIALS   One pound Ginseng seed and one GINSENG GROW BOOK for $200.00    OR  8 ounces Ginseng seed and one GINSENG GROW BOOK for $100.00   There is about 7,000 ginseng seed per pound   We send our brochure and order form out postal mail only.  We just got a box of grow books in.  Scroll below for grow book info.   If you want to GIVE gift of growing just give us a holler.

NOVEMBER 2024 UPDATE:  We finally get some rain so we are ready to plant ginseng seed.  We have some ginseng seed left for sale so if ya want to plant some GREEN GOLD let us know.  We plant ginseng seed until  March first though the sooner planted the better.  We have some Ginseng Grow books left , these grow books are only $34.00 postage paid.  Give us a holler if ya need ginseng seed that will sprout next spring 2025

OCTOBER 2024 UPDATE:   Our hearts and prayers to the folks that were in Helenes destructive path.  We send ginseng seed to North Carolina ,  Virginia and Tennessee.  I talk to   folks growing ginseng in those areas and we talk every year.  I would have to pick up my guitar now and go to my music,  the only way I could say anything .  The heartache those folks are going through is almost beyond words.

  SEPTEMBER 2024  UPDATE:  We will be shipping ginseng seed and rootlet orders out middle of month.  We have had plenty rain so Ginseng and other medicinal plants staying green.  If you want some woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed that will sprout spring of 2025  give us a holler.

AUGUST 2024  UPDATE:  We been busy harvesting Ginseng berries.  We stratafy and bury seed in ground and that is our ginseng seed for next year.   We will be sending ginseng and rootlet orders out  middle of next month.  So if ya want on mailing list and want an order form let us know.  We been getting alot of rain so our Ginseng and medicinal herbs staying green still.   

JULY 2024 UPDATE:  Picked the red berries from our Golden Seal plants last weekend and planted the red berries in our  first year ginseng grow beds.  Our Ginseng plants have nice green  berries  we need to watch that and pick when red.  Our brochures went out postal mail to our customers last month so if ya want to plant some Ginseng seed we send our brochure out postal mail only.  We will start shipping seed  orders middle of September. 

JUNE 2024 UPDATE:  We sent our brochure and order forms out last week postal mail to our customers.    We have a 10% discount until July 15.   Golden Seal berries are a nice green and around first of July berries will turn red and we will plant these Golden Seal berries which have a black seed inside right into our ginseng grow beds.  Golden Seal is a good companion plant for ginseng.   Ginseng is flowering and starting to make green berries also.  Our green beans are flowering and looks like  good crop for us.  Also taters should be ready around  first of July.  We have had plenty spring rains so we have not had to water our garden.  

MAY  2024 UPDATE:  Ginseng sprouting up from forest earlier this year because of warmer spring.  Our oldest 50 and 70 year old wild Ginseng plants are up also.  Bloodroot seed pods are getting ready to be harvested when seed pods ready to burst we get the seed pods and plant the seed.  Bloodroot seed needs to be planted right away and not let the seed dry.    We are having nice spring rains so this will help Ginseng seeds develop after flowering.  We will be sending our brochures and order form out first week of June so if ya want on postal mailing address let us know.  Visitors welcome  from May until September to visit farm.   If ya have any questions OK to give us a phone call.              

   

    

  Ginseng seed is a viable living seed and is moist. if ginseng seed dries up really kills the seed.  At Ozark Mountain Ginseng our seeds are hand picked and stratafied properly in sand, we keep buried in ground until next year.   Our ginseng seed will arrive fresh with plenty  moisture in seed and you should get over  95% germination.   So be careful getting ginseng seed from online sources.  We are farmers and take care of ginseng seed.  That why we do not sell ginseng seed online.   Our brochure has order form included and has information in brochure and we only send out postal mail.  OK to phone or email if ya have any questions. 

 I plant our ginseng seed here at our farms  from October until first week of March.  I try and plant any ginseng seed we  are planting by December if possible in case ground gets frozen.    We start shipping seed and rootlet orders middle of September until we are sold out.  We have a 10% off by July 15  and a 5% off by August 5.  Our Golden Seal patches keep growing every year, we are planting the red berries from Golden Seal into ginseng grow beds, these two plants are good companion plants.   Farming Golden Seal is important for this wild medicinal plant.  Golden Seal has been overharvested in wild because of prices going higher for this plant.  We will be planting alot of Golden Seal with our Ginseng because Golden Seal helps Ginseng grow healthy and is a companion plant.

                                                     

                           

                              

Amereican Ginseng in the wild is not abundant like in previouis years because of high prices  that root buyers were paying.  Some wild ginseng went to $1200 a pound dried.  Right now prices are around $500 a pound at local root buyers around  southern Missouri and as much as $1200  a pound dried on east coast.  Also in Ozarks we have wild feral hogs and these pigs are  digging  up medicinal herbs that are growing wild and need to grow there in forest enviroment.  So the future for American Ginseng is in growing this wonderful herb that is also helping with cancer patients. American ginseng is an rejuvenative herb and helps body organs restore.        The way I figure  if you grow 100 pounds dried ginseng in the woods for 7 to 8 years and get $400 to $500  a pound, Now that pretty darn good.  So if prices go up that just fine.  The market for ginseng looks fantastic especially with wild root almost extinct due to overharvesting.  The future for ginseng is in growing this wonderful herb.  Growing ginseng in the woods at least 7 to 8 years will give a wild looking root.  This is what the root buyers want.  Growing ginseng to 10 years old can even give ginseng an extra hundred dollars a pound especially if you grow large roots like the root buyers desire.

GROWERS HANDBOOK:  "Growing and Marketing of Ginseng and Golden Seal and Other Medicinal Herbs." by W.S. Persons and Jeanne Davis.  This book is over 480  pages and covers ginseng history, market and especially cultivation.  Revised  2nd Edition 2014 will be a wonderful grow book. For a description of book go to "Mother Earth News link" above and put growing ginseng in searcxh engine and GROW book is there with other articles on forest farming. 

GINSENG CONSULTATION:  We will go to your farm and assist any way you need.  We have started large ginseng farms in Missouri to Wisconsin to North Carolina and Virginia.

VISITORS:  If you have any questions please call and visitors are welcome at OZARK MOUNTAIN GINSENG.  Please call in advance to visit the farm.  Growing ginseng and other medicinal herbs since 1983.