Alice in Dairyland highlights specialty root crop Ginseng
Wisconsin is the number one producer of the crop, producing 98% percent of all cultivated Ginseng grown in the United States and 10% of the world’s supply.
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Wisconsin is the number one producer of the crop, producing 98% percent of all cultivated Ginseng grown in the United States and 10% of the world’s supply.
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Salazar, Nursery Manager “Using regular soil which is sieved, soil and sand and humus. The soil is sieved, the sand as well. And Humus as you may know is castings from the worm that we grow here, the California worm. In this case we are using two parts of soil, one part of sand and half part of humus. We mix this together and that is how we are replacing a commercial product which we call the germinating mix.” This process has saved the Ministry 60,000 dollars. Humus is the key component of this mix, and here at Central Farm there is an organic section filled with these California w...