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>Oh you spent your day digging up roots? Why not lant something then? I'm just guessing but the author may be referring to ginseng roots, which my low-income f
by bcook 9y ago
>Oh you spent your day digging up roots? Why not lant something then?
I'm just guessing but the author may be referring to ginseng roots, which my low-income friends occasionally collect here in Appalachia. They could make hundreds of dollars in a single day.
Planted ginseng takes 2+ years until you can harvest it. I asked them about planting/cultivating, which they said wasn't really viable but they did try to harvest the wild ginseng in a sustainable way.
- marak830 9y agoYet, from the articles writing, that isn't what they were aquiring, Bor was there a mention of that. I argue that the author of the piece is either being dishonest(if they were regularly digging up ginseng or similar), not performing enough research or just plain not actually researching for his article. (Although there was a part about how much the root purchaser had spent that day, and it does seem as if they had either purchased massively under market value(for ginseng), or the roots were all low value. Also planting for sale is different than planting for consumption, a few dozen fast growing consumption based plants would have a much better outcome if you were concerned about health and saving money. It does take effort and planning though.