Season has opened and diggers are out in the woods. With careful stewardship practices, this valuable plant can continue to thrive. For a thoughtful collection of articles and tips on how you can ensure ginseng’s survival, visit 100 Days of Ginseng. Sarah Jackson has been an active advocate for the plant and she’s put together …
Who and What this Page is For This is the official kickoff for the 2020 Ginseng Prices. It’s for diggers and dealers to exchange information and comments, tips, etc. It’s not a useful page for those who wish to buy ginseng for personal use, as we are not discussing retail prices here, but trade/industry prices. …
At the Wild Ozark Ginseng nursery, plants are seeded and propagated in a dedicated natural space called the Ginseng Habitat Demonstration Garden. It’s a once-logged area that I’ve worked to recover and replant over the years with the native deep forest flora. I seed in natural habitat, not in pots. Usually each May I transplant …
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Welcome to the new site just for my Wild Ozark ginseng posts and pages. You’ve been redirected here from the old site because I’m moving everything ginseng-related from there… to here. While I’ve redirected the main pages and posts, it’s just too hard to do them all. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. The original Wild …
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. …
Every year the same flowers bloom in pretty much the same order. And although I have hundreds of images in my files, I can’t help but start heading out with the camera. The blooms start in early April in the ginseng habitat. The first flowers that bloom are usually the toothwort (formerly of the Dentaria …
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 …
Is it ginseng? No, it’s buckeye. There are a few plants that grow here in the Ozarks that make it really difficult for newbies to identify ginseng. That’s because these look so much like ginseng to the inexperienced eye. These are called ginseng look-alikes. One of the look-alikes is Ohio buckeye (Aesculus flava). This is …
Here’s a little inspiration to get outside on this beautiful sunny day and enjoy nature. Phlox is blooming and casting joyful purple splashes all around the Wild Ozark hills and woods, and the fiddleheads are unfurling.
