Ozark Mountain Ginseng

Welcome to our new webpage, this site still under construction.  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 seeds or transplanting rootlets we send our price list either email or 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. 

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

Growing Information:  http://altnature.com/ginseng

Alternative Online Herbal:  http://www.altnature.com/index.html

"GREEN GOLD" by Scott Persons  Mother Earth News

This is an excellent article on growing ginseng!

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1983-07-01/About-Ginseng.aspx

GROWING  FACTS:  American Ginseng(Panax

Quinquifolium L.)  Ginseng is a perennial plant and takes 5 to 7 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.  Growers are planting 100 pounds of ginseng seed per acre.  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.

February 2012 update:We do have ginseng seed for planting now!  Dried ginseng root is $350 to $400 a pound for dried ginseng at the root buyers.  We are planting ginseng seed at this time and we do have a few  pounds stratafied woodsgrown American Ginseng seed left  if you need some seed that is cracked and ready to sprout for next spring we have a few pounds left.  Email or phone us at (417)264-2448   We should be out of seed by end of month!  Also free shipping on the grow book we have to offer!
  We do not keep an email mailing list though we can send price list email by request only. Our grow book we have to offer is in stock and shipping is free this month. We purchased some more acres(most all on eastern slope) and our new seedlings beds are doing great!   Ozark Mountain Ginseng will have  American Ginseng seeds  and transplanting rootlets for sale in September so if you want price list please send postal address as we send our price lists out postal mail.  We will be sending out price list in June or July.   Also available is Golden Seal rootlets and other medicinal herbs.      Call us at(417)264-2448 or email us at lindy08@socket.net

The market for dried ginseng this fall  started at $300 a pound and just went up to $400  in February.    The way I figure  if you grow 100 pounds dried ginseng in the woods for 7 to 8 years and get $300 to $400  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 giveginseng 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 466 pages and covers ginseng history, market and especially cultivation.  Revised Edition 2008

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.