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 .  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!

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.                       

NOVEMBER 2023 UPDATE:   We still have some woodsgrown stratfied ginseng seed left.  Let us know this ginseng seed will sprout next spring 2023 and planting time is now.  We have had a beautiful autumn with our sugar maples  turning colors of gold and yellow.  We having 80 degree warm days so we having an Indian summer here in November.               

OCTOBER 2023 UPDATE:  We been shipping orders  since middle of September.  We have some woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left so if ya want to plant some GREEN GOLD give us a call.   We send our brochure and order form out postal mail  only.  Went out in woods yesterday and we still have green ginseng and golden seal in middle of October.  

  SEPTEMBER 2023 UPDATE:  We will be  getting our stratafied ginseng seed out of our stratafication pits this week.  We are sending seed and rootlet orders out next Monday so if ya want to order let us know we can send brochure and order form out postal mail.    October to early March is best to plant ginseng seed.  After March ginseng seed starts to sprout.  Be careful purchasing ginseng seed on internet.  My customers have said that internet seed arrives and does not germinate very well if at all because seed is too dry.    We are a family farm and know how to take care of ginseng seed.  Ginseng seed is a viable seed and if dries up too much is ruined.  Our ginseng and golden seal and other medicinal herbs  still have green leaves thanks to about 12 inches rain in July.                              

AUGUST 2023 UPDATE:  We will be shipping our Ginseng seed and rootlet orders out middle of September until November.  So if ya want to plant some GREEN GOLD in your forest let us know.  We send our brochure and order form out postal mail only.    Ginseng seed berries are green and some are starting to turn red.  Plant ginseng berries when they are red next to parent plant.  We are getting plenty of rainfall we had about 12 inches rain in July.  That makes digging ripe ginseng roots easier.  We are trying to harvest over ten year old ginseng plants, this will give a higher price.  Last year buyers of dried ginseng root were paying $600 to $800 a pound for dried roots.  OK to phone or email if ya have any questions.

JULY 2023 UPDATE:  Planted Golden Seal berries this last week.  When the berries are red on Golden Seal  pick them before squirrels and birds get the berries and plant in your patches of Ginseng.  Ginseng and Golden Seal are great companion plants.  We sent our brochure and order form out to customers on mailing list.  We will be shipping Ginseng and rootlet orders out middle of September so let us know your postal address to get our brochure.  There is so much dry and terrible ginseng seed on internet so we do not do that.   We are a family farm and our Ginseng seed is taken care of properly.   Our ginseng seed gets over 95% germination.                                               

  JUNE  2023  UPDATE:  Ginseng is flowering excellent and Golden Seal berries are green.  We planted Bloodroot seed in ginseng patches a few weeks ago.  When Golden Seal berries are red we will plant these seeds in a creek bed that keeps moist almost all year.  We sent our brochure and order form in postal mail a few days ago to our customers.   There is a 10% off by July 15  and 5% off by August 15 so if ya want a brochure please send postal address or give us a phone call.   We dry right now and watering everything in our vegetable garden.   Just noticed our  first green tomatoes  so we should get some ripe maters  first week of July.     

MAY 2023 UPDATE:  Ginseng still sprouting up from forest  and will take next few weeks to see all ginseng growing.  Golden Seal is flowering and starting to make berries.  Bloodroot  seed pods will start to swell and burst that is when I harvest the Bloodroot seed and we plant seed right away so the seeds will germinate next spring.   We finally planted our vegetable garden we had to wait until nights were warmer.  We will be sending our brochure and order form out first of June so if ya want on mailing list please send postal address.   We do not sell online only through  our order form.                                                                           

APRIL 2023 UPDATE:  Bloodroot sprouting and flowering from the forest.  Ginseng will start emerging in a few weeks after Bloodroot is up.  Pear and Cherry trees flowering hopefully we do not get another frost.  We had alot of snow and cold weather this last winter, snow good for ginseng gives free nitrogen so plants should be a nice dark green this spring.  Finally planted 3 rows of taters a few days ago.  I plant Yukon Gold my favorite.  We will be sending our brochure and order form  first of June so if ya want on mailing list please email or phone your postal address.  Our brochure is made by Vistaprint and only sends out postal mail..  Folks are welcome to visit farm starting  middle of May, will take until then for all our  medicinal plants are up.  Our phone is a landline so texts do not work though if ya have any questions please phone or email.  Happy Spring!

  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.