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"Shinning
Times" Glacial Ginseng Co. Has Launched
A New Advertising Campaign, Please Drop
By AOL And
Call
"Toll Free" 1-888-496-8767 A Steady Market Of $400.00
Per Pound For Wild Ginseng, $300.00 Per
Pound For 7-8 Year Old "Glacial Gold"™
And Other Wild Simulated Woods
Grown American Ginseng Roots. You Harvester and Growers, Let Me Tell You What Happens Next. You Have Dried Your Crop, Your Really Proud Of Your Product, Into The Gunny Sack And Off To The Dealer You Go. You Have Just Broke The Necks Off 20% Of Your Roots And Ruined 20% Of The Market Value Of The Roots On The Asian Market. You Dealers, Same Thing. The Appearance Of Your Roots Is What Asian Market Uses To Determines The Value Of Your Crop. Solution; Sears Has These Neat Vacuum Packing Machines On Sale For $99.95. They Are Made By Kenmore And You Get A Roll Of Baggies And Some Pre Cut Baggies To Get Started With. They Sell Rolls Of Baggies. A 5 # Postal Scale And Paper Cutter, Might Be A Good Investment. Weight Your Roll Of Packing Material Before You Begin And After You Finish. Then You Know How Much Is Root And How Much Is Packing. Trim Your Roots A Little To Fit And Put Your Trimmings In The Chaff Bag, To Included In Your Shipment. Nothing Going To Waste. Off The Drying Racks, Trimmed Into The Vacuum Packer, Right Into Your Shipping Carton. Sharp Looking Product Ready To Be Sold For What It Is, Any Where In The World. This Will Double The Shelf Life Of Our Dried Ginseng Roots. "Sharp"
"Sharp" "Just Out Standing"
The concept
of taking 5 or 10 pounds and selling direct to the Chinese, you can't expect the same
price for a dozen eggs you get from a wholesaler versus what they
cost two at a time in a fancy restaurant. We Need Our
Dealers, Asian And American. They Have To Make A Buck On The
Deal. They A Need A Reliable Market Place To Do Business
In. The big pharmaceutical companies, they look at $18 dollars a pound and we're over here wanting $300.00 dollars a pound for woods grown and wild should be worth more than that, that's for sure. A Blend Makes A Very Good Product, The World Is Getting Very Tried Of Placebos. Walk Into Wal-Mart, Check Out The Ginseng Capsules, They Have 3,4 Price Tags Pasted Over Them, They Have Sat There That Long. The World Market Wants The Real Thing And We Can Give To Them. GINSENG SECURITY
I hear these horror stories about once maybe twice a season, somebody got ripped off of some ginseng. Well, it's sort of like having gold out there in your woods. Somebody comes walking by and sees it, actually it's a very small world of the people that are walking around really looking for it. I have found that these ginsengers are one of the most honest groups of people I have ever worked with. Four years now of sales here on the internet and still not had, a personal check bounce, and I take them very easily. I've only had one order in 4 years that didn't get paid for. So some of the concepts here of the owners who'd like to get into the growing of ginseng, we make this suggestion. Hire some of the local ginsengers to help you with the growing, harvesting and this type of thing. These people are very knowledgeable about good sites, and all. They don't have the land, most of them live the free and easy woods life, out there, kind of living off the land. You buy them the seeds, they'll come help you plant them, help raise them and keep an eye on them for you. In these small rural areas where we grow our ginseng, these guys all pretty much know one another. You get to know these people and your going to
find that these woods men, they're just a whole different world of
people. Get them out there and work with them and get to know
them. They will get you a far better crop grown.
The same way with some of you growers that don't have the
land. There is another option, too, leasing land. Leasing hunting land is getting to be a fairly popular thing. It's on the sporting shows on TV and on the internet. Basic leasing contracts, your lawyer can draw one up, he isn't going to charge you an arm and a leg. Cash rent on property, most places last time I was looking around, may be different now, 80 to 90 dollars an acre per year was figured pretty good cash rent. How many acres you going to use to get started. Get to know the owners. A lot of deals are put together on a share type basis, this type of thing. Someone has to pay for those seeds. We talk about merchandising 7 year old plants, I'm doing real good with 3 year old roots for repropagation. These are from my own growers. As far as the harvest of the wild ginseng, I haven't went out of my way to promote that Much. Much more concerned about our woods grown. If the Chinese want to buy the crop, the growers are the ones that have the crop. I know the guys all like to go out hunting the wild ginseng in the fall of the year, enjoy it myself to a certain degree. I 'm usually a hair bit to busy for that. Besides my hobby is fishing, and during the off season I do that. Any rate, to harvesters of the wild ginseng, harvest them carefully. You know they don't like broken roots, and everything all tore up. Bring them home, put them in your back yard, rig yourself a little artificial shade if you need to. Take them and put them in with some of your own ginseng. I mean 25-30 year old roots, the older the roots get the more potent they become and the more valuable they become. How do you communicate between owners and growers? The shoppers guide of your local area. You owners who want to find a ginsengers in your area, just put an ad in there "business opportunities" or "help wanted part-time". Use a little of this American ingenuity. Lets kind of see if we can't draw ourselves into a group here, re-establish our own markets, and establish the entrepreneurship that's made the ginsengers the really great outdoorsmen, woodsmen and humanitarians that they are. I'm working on a revised edition here to my book, I'm hoping to be able to publish in another year or so. I do have some awfully outstanding seeds this year. They just germinated as good as any I have ever handled. Looking for some commercial growers that want to look at that 3 year market on these roots. Looking for some people here that are interested in planting a 100 pounds of seed or more. Maybe a few rootlets. We're getting pretty well sold out of the rootlets for this season, they are still available but supply is going down. But I do have the seeds, and I will come and help plant on some of these 100 ponders. Specially in the Northeast region of the US. New Hampshire being number one on my list, Vermont second, Maine third, Connecticut, New York state, on down into W. Virginia. I don't know, maybe I'm just adapted to the cold weather climates. Give me a call, we definitely got the doors open here to do some business. Some of you guys want to get started in this entrepreneurship. Put an ad in your local shoppers guide, we'll give you a generous commission for any seeds that you sell. I am rapidly running out of roots. NOTES FROM THE NORTHERN OFFICE The weather has finally decided to become more like winter. It is snowing and blowing. The pike here, however do not know Michael. The fish have not gotten a rest. As we speak he is at the fishing hole, terrorizing those big fish. He is rapidly becoming a local legend. When others can't find the really big ones, he seems to have no problem. Perhaps his Native American heritage makes the Spirit of the Woods look more favorably on him. However I think it is his relentless pursuit of the knowledge of how the fish respond to certain types of tackle and methods. Whatever his secrets are, they have certainly stocked the freezer with a good amount of fish, and there are at least 6-8 weeks of good ice fishing left up here. The intensity, determination, and enthusiasm Michael brings to the business of Glacial Ginseng Co., is the same as he brings to fishing. The work excites him, the fishing is excitement and relaxation at the same time. Working with Michael, here at Glacial Ginseng, continues to be an exciting and unique experience for me. It is indeed a remarkable company, headed by a most remarkable man. |
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