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What Ginseng We
Do Have is Being Grown in Captive Situations or Isolation as in the Wild. The Ginseng
Plants Have Becoming Inbred. |
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Ginseng is an
endangered species, and with every ginseng seed order that I send, I am
doing something about it. Join me in watching our Ginseng
Plants grow, while we practice Good Forestry and Try to balance man and
nature.
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Keeping in mind, if and when you are considering trying " Glacial Gold" Ginseng Co. "New Concept" of blending 3 yr. old Roots with our "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seeds --- We and you, are, and will be balancing our forests in the process!!!
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American Veneer Company
was formed with the idea of blending forestry and ginseng. One of the key elements is the
proper light in the woods. Ginseng is a shade loving plant and over cutting your woods is
just as poor a practice as under cutting. Ginseng seeds are expensive, the labor and
materials necessary for successfully growing both have to come from someplace. The proper
raising of veneer quality timbers will help offset some, if not all of these expenses. A
veneer quality tree is almost always at least double the value of a lumber quality tree.
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Over the years I have worked as a professional timber cruiser in conjunction with American Veneer Company. Walked a lot of woods, had the opportunity to look at a lot of different stands of timber. When you harvest mature timber out of the woods on a select cutting type basis, you're opening up holes into the canopy. Nature many times opens up these type of holes in the woods. Trees get blown over, struck by lightening, etc. |
When you've cut a tree down, the root structure is still intact, and it will send up saplings. Most of the time in these cut areas, the saplings come in way too thick, and this slows down the development process of the timber, but it creates Sweet Spots out there in the woods, open holes in the canopy that sunlight can get through. These Sweet Spots make natural places to plant ginseng. They also make excellent places to plant trees like walnut, cherry, white oak.
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These young seedlings are 2 and 3 year old
seedlings and are 2 or 2 and a half feet high. When they're planted in the spring of
the year they go up, straight up, trying to get to the top of the canopy of the
existing forest. This gives them a 2 to 3 year head start over the saplings
that would normally come up out of the root structure, consequently shading back those
trees. Makes an excellent place to plant young saplings where you want real nice
long, clean bodied logs, no cat faces on them, and nice uniform growth. |
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Over harvesting any woods at any stage
of development is always a mistake in hardwoods. It’s not a mistake under different
circumstances growing for different reasons. But if you’re going to grow veneer quality
timber, good forestry practices are an absolute must. This is an open area in the canopy that you create when you harvest more mature trees usually about 90 feet across. You can regulate the area. Many times the woods has already been cut over. Figure out a rough circle 90 feet across in diameter. Harvest the trees that are in that area to create a sweet spot. Order Form |
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Now here We recommend the
Stewardship Incentive Program.
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Fell your trees north or south whenever feasibly possible. It’ll make the maximum amount of use of that direct sunlight. Where your exposure’s in there, one of those big trees comes down and opens up a nice little path down through there. It’ll break some saplings when it comes down, that’s a fact, but most instances these saplings are dwarf timber, they’re only maybe a couple, 4, 5, 6 inches in diameter, and yet they’re 45, 50 years old.
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Forestry and
Light Requirements for Growing Quality Ginseng |
Sometimes where a
tree is placed, the value as shade can be more valuable than the commercial value as
lumber.
In my book, The Ginseng Growers Guide, I talk about 4 hours of direct oscillating
sunlight, morning being the best. We always recommend planting ginseng on the
east side of the woods, or on the northeast side of the woods, so the plants don’t
get too much light.
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These sweet spots can be created.
When you get over on that west side slope, if you're in there and you’re opening up
areas about 90’ across, you can grow some awful nice ginseng and young trees. If
you’re up there in the northwest part of your woods, you can open up even more areas.
You can almost open up areas on that northwest side twice that much, 180’ across.
Look at your more mature trees that should be harvested. There is a picture on this page
of a couple old black oaks in the middle of real nice sugar maple saplings. |
Now there’s a case where those two trees should be harvested. That’s naturally sugar maple in there. They’ll take off and go for the sun. It’d be a super nice little place to plant some ginseng, maybe this next season I’ll get to it. But at any rate, growing veneer quality trees, good forestry, and ginseng always go hand in hand.
 Two Oak Trees That Need To Be Harvested "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed Kits From $19.95 To $99.95 and Accessories "Click Here" |
Been thinking about what Dad told me
years ago about hunting wild ginseng and sweet spots. You walk in on one of them, you can just feel it there, but the deer trails have a tendency to go from one of these sweet spots to another if you follow them along. Of course, hunting for wild ginseng along deer trails is an old timers trick, but when the deer get to these sweets spots, they’re looking for the ginseng berries to eat them. Well, they eat the berries, but the seeds pass right through the deer, consequently they’re doing some real nice work. |
When working into a woods and you have merchantable timber, you can finance your ginseng venture from your woodlot. If you have a woods, I would put my "Glacial Gold" ginseng seeds in first. Get your seed bed started first, then you can recoup your financial investment from the harvest of your timber. That timber market is good and has been good in southern Michigan. We do a lot of work with VanKeulen and Winchester. I have been associated with those people for thirty years now. They own Buskirk Lumber Company and they have affiliated sawmills all through the hardwood, ginseng area.
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You have local mills, check with you neighbors. Understand who you are doing business with. If you let some indiscriminate loggers into your woods, they can put you out of the ginseng business in the blink of an eye. Correctly harvesting your timber is important, both for good forestry and the shade factor to grow ginseng. Listed below are the basic requirements usually necessary to facilitate the moving of the equipment and manpower necessary to do a competent job in Southern Michigan. However, if planting ginseng is involved we have a lot more flexibility. |
We buy Black Walnut, Cherry, Hard Maple and Red Oak Trees must be at least
54" in circumference at chest height and 10' from the ground to the bottom of the
first defect, catface or limb.
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It is usually not necessary to harvest any trees to get your ginseng beds started. Stay over on the northeast side of the woods and study your undergrowth. If you get too far back in the woods where there is no undergrowth, ginseng or nothing else will grow there. If you get too far to the edge of the woods where there is too much competitive vegetation, there is too much light for ginseng.
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Ginseng Fact: Ginseng takes so much out of the soil, that once harvested, ginseng will not grow there again. Harvest
trees in over-shaded areas, and other areas to meet both the shade requirements and good
forestry practices |
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Don't Have a Forest for the Shade?Lease some
forest land. The going rate around here is about $75 (US) per acre per year.
Five or ten acres is a good sized site. We have approximately nine million acres of
privately held forest land here in the state of Michigan, alone. The only yield that
the owners of this land are receiving is a timber crop about once in a lifetime.
Most of this land is not being managed properly. A potential grower could
lease some of this forest land, and with proper management, have an outstanding crop of
ginseng and timber. |
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If You’ve got an open
field out here and you’d like to get in the ginseng business, plant your own forest
in there. Plant young saplings in nice neat rows fairly closer together, you will create
in a few years the canopy that you need for growing the ginseng. At the same time that
you’re growing, if you’ll work with a species like hard maple, that grow nice
straight trees in close husbandry as a tree starts to reach 4-5" diameter, they make
excellent for the transplant for the lawn and garden world. As the trees begin to mature and they get in the 10-12" bracket, if they’ve been put in nice neat rows, you can hook up a gravity flow tapping systems in there. It doesn’t do real good for veneer trees, but if you’re just wanting to grow a forest, why then you’re into looking at making your own sugar maple, and this type of thing is always enjoyable. In a few years you will have an ideal place for growing Ginseng. |
A "NEW CONCEPT"- Balancing - The Humanitarians Choice.
Keeping in mind, if and when you are considering trying
Glacial Gold Ginseng Co.
"New Concept" of blending 3 yr. old Roots with our "Glacial
Gold" Ginseng Seeds --- We and
you, are, and will be balancing our forests in the process!!! You will be taking
- where and when needed - older mature trees at prime time, to give growing
space to the new and younger generation of trees. Selecting only what
should be harvested at present, to give the correct conditions for your ginseng
crop. Also, keep in mind, Woods Grown Ginseng far out surpasses field cultivated
ginseng in value and ginsitis levels.
By harvesting your mature trees, purchasing and
planting 3yr. old "Glacial Gold" Ginseng seeds and roots.
This is a means of no money out of your pocket now -- and will start bringing
money into your pocket in the very near future. Your 3 yr. old Glacial Gold
Roots will produce a good seed crop the next fall. The "Glacial
Gold" Ginseng Seeds will start producing a seed crop of top notch
seeds in 4 yrs. Leaving your forest as is, will do nothing and can
stunt the growth of your young trees.
PLUS - You will have a balanced forest WITH a ginseng crop of a higher
value then the trees you removed for your initial investment!!! Now - I
believe that isn't only smart - It is investing common sense for our next
generation and for generations to come!!! Also remember, you will have a
yearly seed crop. I wish all forest were so lucky, as to have owners like
you, setting the example! Balancing our forest simply makes good sense and
you are THE answer to saving an endanger species of not only ginseng, but
of our great forests. If we don't take care of our forests, who
will??
You are our HOPE for generations to come, by becoming a part of the solution. We all need more humanitarians like YOU!!! THANKS!!!!
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 Planted 3 Commercial Jobs This Fall |
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 3 Or 4 Passes And You Have A #1 Seed Bed |
 Ready To Go To Quebec 11/8/04 |
 Doing Some Hand Planting In Quebec |
 Got Stuck A Time Or Two |
 Had A Really Great Time |
 Beautiful Site, Great Hosts |
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 Enough Seeds For 3 Commercial Jobs This Spring |
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 Kept At A Constant 46 Degrees F. |
 This Spring's "Glacial Gold"™ |
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 Got To -10 F. The Other Night |
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 Planted April 28th 2004 Picture Taken 06/17/04 |
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Revival
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American Veneer
Company
Specialists in Veneer Quality Hardwoods
Updated 01/14/05
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Michael Hunter, The "Ginsengman"
Black Walnut Veneer Log '93
"Will
Trade "Glacial
Gold"™
Ginseng
Seeds For Veneer Quality Trees"
"We
Are Now Buying"
Furniture
Grade And Veneer Quality Standing Hardwood Timber
Black Walnut, Cherry, Hard Maple, Red Oak, White Oak and Some
Ash.
Trees must
be at least 54" in circumference at chest height and 8'
from the ground to the bottom of the first defect, cat face or
limb.
Trees over 100" in circumference have started to over
mature and the price per board foot starts to drop rapidly.
Due to the high cost of moving equipment we must have a
minimum of 75 trees, which can usually be met on a 20 acre woods
and leave the woods with the right light for growing ginseng. We
will not over Harvest any woods for any reason.
We offer full payment in advance, conscientious
logging practices, and maximum utilization of all trees
harvested.
"Will Trade Ginseng Seeds For Trees"
If You Are Within 700
Miles
"Houghton Lake Michigan"
Give Us A
Call "1-800-430-2939"
Positions Available As Part Time Purchasing
Agents.
American Veneer Company Specialists Veneer Quality Hardwoods
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"Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed and Root Kits From $19.95 Consulting Services Are Available. During the Fall Planting Season, we are
standing by to take your orders and credit card information from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM EST.. Monday through
Saturday. (Personal Checks and C.O.D.'s are also welcome.) Michael Hunter is often available to answer
brief questions and take your order personally. If you happen to be in the Jackson Michigan area, please feel
free to stop by and pick up your seed orders in person. Michael is usually around
and likes to meet fellow ginseng growers.
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