4/13/23 Skipped a day, and now I’ve missed the unfurling. Ginseng is up everywhere. While some are completely unfurled, most are still stretching and yawning. I’ll post pics as I get a chance. On April 22 and every Saturday thereafter, I should have potted seedlings and older specimen plants at art studio inside the Alpena […]
2023 Ginseng Nursery Update Read More »
So I have some help this year with the ginseng nursery from a pair of young organic, permaculture enthusiasts who are ready to learn about being good ginseng stewards. That means I will after all have some potted ginseng seedlings available throughout spring! They’ll have to be picked up in the Kingston square, by appointment.
Potted Ginseng Seedlings in Arkansas Read More »
I went out to check on the Virginia snakeroot nursery the other day and was mortified to find nothing. Not. One. Plant. Virginia Snakeroot … What’s That? Now, you might be wondering just what’s so important about a plant that really looks like nothing much more than a weed in the woods. It’s a plant
Oh no! The Virginia Snakeroot babies are all gone! Read More »
I’m just mired neck deep in a To-Do list of my own making, trying to get organized and into some sort of a groove now that market season has begun. Since I haven’t written in a while, I figured I’d write up a summary of a typical week at Wild Ozark. This is my first
A Week at Wild Ozark … No, I’m Not Lost Read More »
I have a mystery plant to decipher. Last year I went to the woods and took a root division of a plant I wanted to grow in the Ginseng Habitat Demonstration Garden. I put that root cutting into a pot and placed it in a sheltered spot in one of my nursery terraces. The summer
Watching a Ginseng Habitat Mystery Plant Unfurl Read More »
It’s mid-March 2018 and I’m watching for the first native flowers of the Ozarks to start blooming. I particularly love the ephemeral blooms of early spring, like the bloodroot and Dutchmen’s breeches. Scroll down to see pictures and keep up with what’s blooming at Wild Ozark. If you’re looking specifically for the ginseng unfurling/blooming, you’ll
2018 Spring Awakening Watch – First Native Flowers of the Ozarks Read More »
What I mean by ‘Nature Farming’ is not the same as ‘natural farming’, ‘organic farming’, or ‘natural farming methods’. Explanations for all of these things come up when you do a search online for ‘nature farming’. But nothing turns up for true nature farming. Hopefully this post will show up in the search engine results
What is Nature Farming? What does a Nature Farmer Grow? Read More »
There’s a Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) seedling creeping up toward the light in my spleenwort fern (Asplenium platyneuron) container. I watched it for a few days with a suspicious eye as it unfurled, because I thought it might be a poison ivy. Virginia Creeper This isn’t one of my favorite plants. I’m only fascinated with it
Virginia Creeper Seedling in my Ebony Spleenwort Fern Read More »
So an armadillo moved into one of the ginseng nursery beds & it’s been a destructive force since it arrived. What would you do? Kill it or let it live?
Armadillo Dilemma: To Kill or Not to Kill Read More »
Thimbleweed is a graceful, interesting native Ozark plant that grows along forest edges (also native to many other areas of the eastern United States). It is most often found in the dappled shade of liminal spaces between forest and clearing. Before sending up flower stalks, the plant is only about a foot tall. The long
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) Read More »
