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 overharvesting.  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:  Alternative Nature Online Herbal: 

https://learnaboutherbs.com/

GROWING GINSENG by Scott Persons a Mother Earth News article: 

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

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.  Recently we added another growing article by Scott Persons called"Growing Ginseng Organically"  So there will be 2 nice grow articles on links above.   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 $850  a pound dried.   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.

AUGUST 2020 UPDATE:  Ginseng berries been turning red so that time of year to go gather your ginseng seed.  OK to plant your red berries right away unless you get alot of berries than you can stratafy seeds.  We harvest the red Sang berries and put in sand and bury cans in sand in the ground.  These future ginseng seed will be ready to plant the next year.  Any red berries you plant now will come up in 2022.  The woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed we have is from last years crop of ginseng berries.  So if ya want some woodsgreown stratafied ginseng seed that will come up next spring 2021 we start shipping orders middle of September.  We send our brochure out postal mail only.                                                         

JULY 2020 UPDATE:  We sent brochures out last month to customers so if ya want brochure let us know.  We will be shipping ginseng seed orders in September.  I harvested the red berries from our Golden Seal plants, this year I  picked the red berries before the squirrels got the berries.   Planted the Golden Seal berries in ginseng grow beds.  Hope everyone staying healthy in this Covid period.     

JUNE 2020 UPDATE:  We sent out our brochure this week to folks on mailing list.  We will be sending out seed and root orders middle of September.  Sure had alot of rain this spring.  We finally have had sun the last week and able to dry up some.  Ginseng  is flowering and will  have green berries by end of month.  Golden Sseal berries are green and will ripen in July.  We gather the red berries and will put seed berries in ginseng grow beds.  Ginseng like growing with Golden Seal and is a great companion plant. 

MAY UPDATE:  Ginseng is about 80% sprouted through the forest.  Will take until middle of May for all the ginseng to come up.  Our over 50 year old wild ginseng plant has 3 stems coming from one root.  The 70 year old wild Ginseng are up also.  I will have to look at the Bloodroot seed pods every day and watch the pods when they are ripe.  Bloodroot seed ripens early and seed pods burst spreading the seeds.  Most of this seed never gets into ground so dries up.  So I gather seed when is ripe and plant the seeds in our bare spots in Ginseng grow beds.  We are having good success doing this and we have baby Bloodroots the next spring.  Golden Seal and the other medicinal herbs are all up also.  We finally got our  taters planted a month later than I normally do though with all our rains we should do ok.  Hope everyone is OK with Covid 19, we have 2 cases in out county .  

  APRIL 2020 UPDATE:  An exciting time here at Ozark Mountain Ginseng.  Bloodroot started  emerging last week of March and has seed pods already.  Golden Seal coming up in last 2 weeks along with ginseng.  Will take entire month of April for all our medicinal plants to emerge from forest.  We staying healthy here with Covid 19, we have had only one case here in our county.  I am drinking shittake mushroom powder with my coffee in morning. I mix the shittake mushroom powder in with coffee.  Shittake mushrooms are medicinal and have anti viral and anti bacteria properties.  We grew these mushrooms next to our ginseng grow beds and dehydrated them for use in times like this.  I better get some  more  logs inoculated with shittake spores.  Still trying to get our taters planted though been raining every 2 to 3 days and ground been too wet.  One good thing about the rains we planted the rest of ginseng seed first week of March and the ginseng seeds are sprouting up excellent with the moisture.   Visitors to our farm will be OK after all our medicnial plants  emerge from forest sometime in May.                              

  MARCH 2020 UPDATE:  We planted the rest of the ginseng seed about 40 pounds first week of March.  We will have more woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed available in September.  We will be sending our brochures out postal mail in June.  I had the flu along with my wife the entire time was planting the ginseng seed.  I took Golden Seal this root  cleanses the mucous membranes and is a natural antibiotic.  I also took Olive Leaf extract twice a day,  I took 2 capsules twice a day Olive Leaf extract  kills bacteria, viruses and germs.  Also took a dose of liquid Colladial Silver 3 times a day.  Of course I chewed some ginseng root every morning and ginseng helps the lungs.  We been OK here though if Coronavirus emerges will take the same herbs as I did with the flu.  Naturopathic Medicine offers wonderful remedies.  We grow Medicinal Herbs including Golden Seal.  My wife likes the Golden Seal capsules better where I make a tea out of root and is very bitter.  Our family doctor works with my wife with these herbals because my wife is allergic to almost all antibiotics so herbal remedies best choice and she got through the flu with no problems.  So work with your family doctor if using herbs and Naturopathic doctors are helpful.

  FEBRUARY 2020 UPDATE:  We have about 50 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left to sell,  get some GREEN GOLD seed to grow before we sell out.   Our ginseng seed is cracked and will sprout this April 2020.    We will be planting ginseng seed this month so if ya phone leave message we might be planting.                                                                       

JANUARY 2020 UPDATE:  I started growing ginseng in 1983, so we been growing ginseng  37 years.    Now that I have reached 67 young sure glad I started my ginseng farms.  My farms are giving me something to do that I enjoy.  Last month was planting ginseng seed in 60 degree weather in December here in southern Missouri.  Looks like January we going to be warmer also so will be planting more ginseng seed this month.  We have about 50 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left to sell that will sprout this spring 2020.  Now is the time to plant ginseng seed until March.   An Illinois root buyer phoned last month to purchase ginseng seed and told me he was buying dried ginseng in Illinois for $850 a pound dried.  That pretty darn good.  Grow a patch of ginseng in your forest land at that price and grow 100 pounds  ginseng  you can do pretty good.  Leave message on phone if ya call we might be planting ginseng seed.

  DECEMBER 2019 UPDATE:  This is time of year to plant ginseng seed.  Here in southern Missouri our days are going to be close to 60 degress this week.  So I will be working ginseng grow beds all the way until all the ginseng seed is planted, this usually takes me until first of March.    We have about 60 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed for sale   that will sprout next spring 2020.  I do not do internet sales we have a brochure made by Vistaprint that has order form in brochure that we send postal mail.  Too much internet ginseng seed is too dry and does not sprout like our seed, ginseng seed is a viable seed and must be kept moist and that is easy to do. Our ginseng seed gets 95% germination if not better.  We plant ginseng seed until March and we only have 60 pounds ginseng seed left.  We ship orders every Monday and Tuesday.  So give us a Holler if you want to grow some GREEN GOLD.                            

  NOVEMBER 2019 UPDATE:  We will be planting our ginseng seed this month.  This is time of year to plant ginseng seed. I plant October to Feb.  We have about 70 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left for sale so if you want to grow this GREEN GOLD we can send you a brochure postal mail.  Our brochure has facts about growing also.  The root buyers are buying dried ginseng for $600 around here and east coast ginseng buyers are paying up to $800 a pound for dried ginseng.  If you phone we might be working our ginseng grow beds so OK to leave a message.  

  OCTOBER 2019 UPDATE:  Wild Ginseng dried starting here in Missouri at $500 pound dried and North Carolina area starting at $600 dried.  That  pretty good and price usually goes higher later in the season.  October through February is when I start planting ginseng seed.  We have about 100 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left.   So if you want to plant this GREEN GOLD let us know.  We send our brochure out postal mail only, does not email is made by Vistaprint and folds.  Our ginseng is still green in some prime locations and we will be busy digging transplants for customers so ok to leave message on phone.                                               

SEPTEMBER 2019 UPDATE:  We have about 120 pounds woodsgrown stratafied ginseng seed left.  We will be busy digging transplanting rootlets for customers.  We start shipping ginseng seed and orders middle of this month.  Will take a week to find out what prices are for ginseng so will update later.  Some of our ginseng berries still green so will be picking more seed berries.  Ginseng still green with all the summer rains we have had.                                      

AUGUST 2019 UPDATE:  Ginseng  berries are starting to turn red so we starting to pick the red berries.  There is usually  2 seeds  per berry sometimes 3 seeds.     We will be shipping seed and root orders middle of September until middle November.  We only have so much seed left so if ya want to grow this GREEN GOLD let us know.  We sent our brochures out in June and most of our regular customers have ordered already.  If folks want to visit farm our Ginseng and Medicinal Herbs are still green with all the good rains we have had this spring and summer.  We had a nice crop of tomatoes and my wife was canning our apples this last weekend  for pies .  If you have any questions OK to phone or email.  We will be busy harvesting our ginseng seed so OK to leave message on phone.                                                            

JULY 2019 UPDATE:  Ginseng is still flowering and  green ginseng berries are forming nice.  We had alot of cloudy weather in May along with rains and this must have slowed the ginseng flowering.  Usually here in southern Missouri ginseng is done  flowering though looks like will flower until middle of July.  I planted Golden Seal berries a few weeks ago,  I managed to get berries before squirrels and other critters got them.  In a few weeks will have to watch for ginseng berries turning red.  We sent our brochures out postal mail in June so if ya want on mailing list let us know.        

JUNE UPDATE:  The education event with the University of Missouri Extension  June 10 and 11 went great.  We had to postpone a few days because of rain and too slippery in woods then.  If ya missed this education event is OK to phone and folks can come visit farm here.   Folks got to see some 50 to 70 year old wild ginseng plants.  And then went and took a nature hike to see May Apple, Mullein, Blood Root, Golden Seal, Wild Ginger, Lady Slipper, Black Cohosh and ginseng planted on the farm here.  Golden Seal has green berries and I will need to watch for when the berries turn red so I can plant the berries.  Squirrels and other critters and birds like to eat red berries so gotta get them before something else does.  In July sometime looks like when berries will be red enough, the berries should be planted right away and do not let dry up.  Ginseng is flowering here and forming green berries,  The Lady Slipper orchid has flowered and has a nice seed pod.  We are still learning how to grow this orchid.  So far we have had about 30 inches of rain, this is making the plants grow very well this year.  We sent our brochures out first of June so please send address for brochure sent postal mail.                           

May 2019 UPDATE:  Ginseng still sprouting and looks like will take next week or so to all be up and growing.  Our Lady Slipper wild orchid  is in full bloom.  Bloodroot has seed pods so will be planting seeds in next week or so when seeds are ripe, Bloodroot is first medicinal plant to bloom.  Golden Seal has flowered and is setting seed berries, these seeds will be ready to harvest in July.  Last year I waited too long to get red berries and squirrels got most of   the berries before I did.   We just had alot of rain in last week though day before rains started I did manage to get our vegetable garden planted.  This year had to put 7 foot tall fence around garden to help keep deer out.  University of Missouri extension  is going to do a education event here at farm June 8 on a Saturday so if folks want to attend please email or phone, will start in morning and will be a few hours of taking a walking tour of medicinal plants growing here.  We will be sending our brochure in June so if you want brochure please email or phone address.                                

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 $800 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. 

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

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.