Market Farming

[Chris Sawyer <css AT ioa.com>]

Just plant in woods and ignore it. If you spray it at all I understand that 
can be easily detected. There are pests that wipe out whole colonies making 
some think they have to spray it and protect it.

Marienne Kreitlow wrote:

> Chris Sawyer wrote"
>
> >Cultivated ginseng fetches a much much lower price and it is prone to
> disease. I would wild craft it on your place if I were you and not get
> into cultivation
>
> Thanks Chris,
>
> Let me ask the dumb question:  By "wild craft", do you mean forage for 
> exisiting plants?  There is a fellow who dabbles in that around here, but I 
> have not as yet actually seen any ginseng on our property.  If you mean 
> plant it out in the woods and leave it alone for seven years or so, that's 
> what I have in mind (I just have to keep that forager out of my woods!)
>
> Jerry Ford
> Hei-Low Farm
> Howard Lake, MN
>
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