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How BTS and Its ARMY Could Change the Music Industry

By Rebecca Davis

It was just a year ago that BTS’ Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour was selling out stadiums all over the world. Each night of the 20-date trek, which grossed $116 million, a total of nearly a million ticket buyers around the planet witnessed a thumping opening liturgy at the top of the K-pop band’s set in the form of the song “Dionysus.”

As flames shot up from the stage, seven figures emerged in supplicant white amid Greek columns and a long altar. Rapper RM (full name: Kim Nam-joon) led the way, twirling the staff of the titular mythical deity, as group mates Jin (Kim Seok-jin), SUGA (Min Yoon-gi), j-hope (Jung Ho-seok), Jimin (Park Ji-min), V (Kim Tae-hyung) and Jung Kook (Jeon Jung-kook) flanked him in a display of choreographed precision. The crowd, reaching peak pandemonium in a night full of deafening screams, made willing maenads and satyrs, transported by the band’s presence. An anthem about rebirth and self-discovery through the ecstatic collective experience of music was received as intended — as if from the gods.

Idol worship is by no means a new concept in pop music — remember John Lennon’s provocative statement in 1966 that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”? — but there’s something about BTS that turns fandom up to 11. The global brigade of BTS acolytes is collectively known by the acronym ARMY, short for Adorable Representative MC for Youth, a moniker chosen by Big Hit Entertainment, the company that launched the band. ARMY comprises the lion’s share of a Twitter audience that’s 29.2 million followers strong, more than triple that of any other K-pop group, and growing daily. BTS’ Instagram presence of 30.6 million followers (also rising rapidly), is trailed closely only by YG Entertainment’s Blackpink, at 29.3 million.

“It is because ARMY exists that we exist,” Jin says.

To understand the scope of BTS Inc.: An influential 2018 study by the Hyundai Research Institute estimated that the ripple effects from the boy band’s ecosystem contribute roughly $4.9 billion annually to South Korea’s GDP, on track to generate more value over 10 years than the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The study gauged that in 2017, one in 13 visitors to the country came for BTS-related pilgrimages. That ratio may soon be growing. Spotify has reported a 300% spike in new listeners to the group since the Aug. 21 release of “Dynamite,” BTS’ first all-English single.

The BTS boom has also driven Big Hit to launch an IPO in October projected to raise some $811 million. (Each BTS member will be awarded shares worth approximately $8 million.) Of Big Hit’s revenue in 2019, 97.4% was generated by BTS, including $130 million worth of T-shirts, cosmetics, dolls and other merchandise.

The numbers are no accident. The South Korean government began investing strategically in the arts and the digital economy to help steer the country out of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. On the heels of “Parasite” sweeping the Oscars, the worldwide success of BTS may be another sign to the West that Seoul might be the center of a new force in creative production.

Big Hit, and the K-pop music business in general, have proved just how much a band, and a company, can prosper through a direct-to-consumer relationship, driven by digital platforms and dedicated apps with lots of behind-the-scenes content that keeps fans emotionally involved. It’s engagement on a scale that no Western artist has ever achieved, despite decades of radio promotion and the best retail strategy.

For the global music industry, the band’s success has meant a serious rethink of how a record company — in BTS’ case, Sony Music’s Columbia Records, which distributes the group’s music in the U.S. (though the band is not signed to the label) — builds and maintains a fan base. You could almost look at it as a collaborative arrangement: As music is being made in real time, decision-makers and strategists at Big Hit and Columbia are taking in and processing the comments and views of ARMY and pivoting accordingly.

“It creates a self-sustaining engine that, eventually, becomes hits perpetuating more hits,” says Neil Jacobson, a former president of Geffen Records who runs Hallwood, a talent agency for producers and songwriters. “A label wants that fan connection happening all the time so that they can consistently release and promote music. But in the past, there had always been intermediaries that labels had to talk to in order to manifest exposure. Now, there is a mechanism for an artist to speak directly to their fans. That didn’t exist before, and it has turbocharged the process.”

It’s all led to this “Dynamite” moment: The single has sold nearly 700,000 adjusted song units since its release — good for a gold record certification by the RIAA. The song is quickly becoming the band’s biggest radio hit to date (without a featured artist, it’s worth noting), and represents a significant breakout beyond its core audience. After that, will Grammys follow?

“They check all the boxes,” says Jenna Andrews, the vocal producer on “Dynamite” who also serves as an executive at Sony’s Records label. “I’ve never seen anything like BTS in terms of singing and dancing. This is just an indication of what’s yet to come. They’re going to take over the world.”

Kathryn Lofton, Yale University professor of religious and American studies and author of the book “Consuming Religion,” says that the bond BTS has with its ARMY is different from the typical singer-fan connection because “BTS’ driving commitment is to their relationship to the fan group, to the manufacturing of their communal joy for you to participate in.” It’s why she views BTS as “a religious project; they are seeking to make a togetherness that you can’t stop wanting to be a part of.”

Lofton also makes a point of distinguishing ARMY from the groupies associated with Beatlemania. Sure, BTS fans know the hagiography and backstory of each member, but everything about the band’s output prioritizes the collective over the individual.

The band itself has certainly leaned into the comparison with the Fab Four. For instance, it re-created the iconic moment of the Beatles’ 1964 debut at the Ed Sullivan Theater last May on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” — in a black-and-white segment that showed the K-pop band performing as mop tops in tailored suits.

But while John, Paul, George and Ringo had spotlight moments of their own, both within and outside the band — songs they wrote individually, causes they took up personally — with BTS, it’s all for one all the time. Unlike many other groups, the members share single, collective Twitter and Instagram accounts, and release even solo material through their shared channel. Accomplishments are never spoken of as belonging to any one group member but rather as the work of the team (and, of course, ARMY). In their videos, they often begin in solo shots but end up together.

This all strays from the typical tropes of Western boy bands including New Edition and ’N Sync, which have all proffered “star” frontmen. The thinking for decades had been that a record company would be lucky to have one breakout solo career among the bunch.

But BTS’ selfless approach didn’t happen randomly: The group was envisioned as a collective to heal the alienation that ails us in the digital age. Its name — “BTS” stands for Beyond the Scene — is an invitation to fans to join them offstage via almost daily video content featuring moments in their intimate if immaculately curated private lives on YouTube, Twitter and Big Hit app Weverse.

In 2011, Big Hit’s revenues from its then-main acts, Lim Jeong-hee and boy band 2AM, were plummeting. As the shadow of bankruptcy loomed, Bang Si-hyuk, now chairman, and Lenzo Yoon, global CEO, felt the company needed a total revamp. They stopped all normal work for months and called on employees to perform market research instead, seeking a new vision and formula.

Bang describes the conclusion they reached in a recent Harvard Business School case study of the firm written by Anita Elberse and Lizzy Woodham: “You would think that with the development of digital technology, people can come together more easily, but we found that it is actually more likely that people will feel more isolated. And so we need to find a way to help them, inspire them and heal them.”

Reflecting on the choice to develop a group that satiated this need, Yoon says in the study: “I think back then in 2011, with the conclusions we drew, we found the wild ginseng, as we say in Korea.”

On “Dynamite,” Big Hit worked with Columbia to further cultivate that ginseng. Pitched by Jacobson to label chairman Ron Perry, who guided and essentially A&R’d the song, worked to radio by Columbia executive VP and head of promotion Peter Gray (who has broken hits for Dua Lipa, Kelly Clarkson and Kings of Leon), and all overseen and informed by the years of management savvy of Big Hit, it’s the kind of artist development that was a music business calling card and that has lost its place in the fast-paced world of digital releases.

Radio exposure is not considered as impactful in Korea as it is in the U.S., notes RM, and so BTS — “maybe naively” — didn’t hit the ground in the U.S. thinking, ‘What can boost our airplay?’” the last time around. Still, RM notes that the band has “100% trust” in Columbia, Big Hit and the greater BTS community. “ARMY and the label are all trying their best,” he says, recounting how in the band’s early days, fans would send bouquets to radio DJs to get their songs on the air.

“Our goal is to try to show ourselves, expose ourselves to ARMY as much as possible,” adds Jin. “There are a lot of platforms now.”

In some ways, BTS’ ARMY has grown into its own force and brought the group along for the ride. In the world of K-pop, the expectation is that entertainers stay far away from politics, but as the genre has grown more global, it has begun to reach a transnational cohort to whom matters of social justice are top of mind.

When Variety broke the news on June 6 that BTS and Big Hit had donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter, BTS fans quickly flocked to #MatchAMillion through a link sent out by the fan charity Twitter account @OneInAnARMY. They hit the financial target in just 25 hours.

Erika Overton, a 40-year-old Georgia resident and one of the co-founders of the account, says of the experience: “It was one of the craziest nights I’ve ever seen. I was on Twitter all night. We were refreshing the page every couple of minutes, going, ‘Oh, my God …’” Witnessing ARMY’s U.S. battalion bring the message of Black Lives Matter to fans in other parts of the world who were unfamiliar with the movement was a “big educational moment that was really, really beautiful to see,” says Overton, who is African American.

What Overton saw was facilitated by networks of fan translators who also turn Big Hit’s Korean content into dozens of languages. Other ARMY groups provide counseling or tutoring services, invent themed recipes or write informational threads on everything from the history of the music industry and how charts work to Jungian philosophy, which deeply informs the BTS albums.

Some fan accounts have even become registered nonprofits, with dozens of administrators spread around the world putting in nearly full-time work on top of their day jobs.

In addition to Black Lives Matter, BTS this year donated $1 million to Crew Nation, a Live Nation campaign to support live entertainment personnel impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And it has continued its campaign with UNICEF to end child violence. But the band members are reticent to take on the role of global activists. “I don’t consider ourselves as political,” says Suga. “We aren’t trying to send out some grandiose message. We would never see ARMY as a conduit for our voice or our opinion. ARMY speaks their own initiatives, and we always respect their opinions, as we respect any other person’s.”

RM, on the other hand, keeps the door open for a kind of apolitical politics based more on actions than words: “We are not political figures, but as they say, everything is political eventually. Even a pebble can be political.”

The scale of its influence is not something that the group takes lightly. “Our [‘Dynamite’] video has seen 80 million, almost 90 million views in just a day. In a way, that’s very weighty — and almost frightening,” RM told Variety the day after its debut, explaining that the balancing act is often one of how to juggle the burdens of being both role models and artists.

Some Korean scholars feel that BTS’ statement in support of BLM shows how ARMY is actually out ahead of Big Hit, spontaneously enacting its own initiatives to which the company must then respond. “Big Hit thinks they can create a company-dominated [approach to] fandom, but fans are agents doing only what they want, not what they don’t want,” says ethnomusicologist Kim Jungwon of Yonsei University in Seoul. For Kim, the fluidity of ARMY’s unplanned, collective responses “is the possible answer to BTS’ success.”

Candace Epps-Robertson, an ARMY member and assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of North Carolina, says the affirmational content of the group’s lyrics and videos may sound simple, but lay the groundwork for millions of fans to learn to engage critically with each other and develop a transcultural sense of global citizenship. “The message of ‘you, yourself, are enough, and you should love who you are and start with that — I think people miss how radical that can actually be,” she says. “We can’t overlook the power of that as an invitation to people to be part of this community.”

The Grammys, where BTS is eligible for record of the year, among other categories (nomination ballots for the 2021 awards, slated to air Jan. 31, went out on Sept. 28), provide a chance for the group to gain industry recognition as a mainstream contender, not just a K-pop act.

Asked why the Grammys matter so much to them, Suga seems to bristle a bit at the question. “I grew up watching American award shows, so obviously we all know and I know the importance of the Grammys,” he says. “It’s a dream anyone working in music has.”

RM says having the goal of a Grammy, an industry-voted award, “motivates us to work harder. As Suga said, if you are in music, the Grammy Awards are something that you cannot help but to look toward and set as an eventual goal.”

BTS’ global influence will soon collide with national duty, and a Grammy Award or three could help maintain its momentum. The band members all have to participate in Korea’s mandatory military service by the age of 28 — and four of them are within two years of that threshold. “Big Hit really wants to target the Grammys before [the members] go into the army,” says an industry source privy to the company’s marketing plans, adding that, from Big Hit’s perspective, it would be best for business if the boys all perform their service at the same time.

The group renewed its contract with Big Hit in 2018, which commits the members to another seven years with the firm, but the army service issue could knock off two years within that time span. A company statement ahead of Big Hit’s IPO shows that Jin, the oldest group member (he’ll be 28 in December), must conscript by 2022 even if he gets an extension of the draft deadline. The statement discloses that plans to prerecord content to be released over the course of any army tenure are being discussed.

South Korea officially changed its rules in July to allow draftees access to once-banned cellphones on weeknights and weekends, meaning BTS could theoretically continue some interaction with fans. However, the taking of photos, video or audio recordings remains prohibited. (Historically, most Korean celebs have fallen silent during their service.)

Soldiering aside, with the push from Big Hit’s IPO, multiple TV appearances — including an ongoing weeklong takeover of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” — the chart success of “Dynamite” and growing Grammy buzz, BTS is poised to make some serious noise this fall, which is saying a lot for a group known to shake the decibel scale with a wave or a wink. But perhaps the most significant measure of its ascent is underscored by the frequent speculation of the band’s place in a new moment for the music industry.

“What would it mean not just to include the sound of Korea in the annals of world music, but to actually propose that the South Korean sound is the next chapter?” posits Yale’s Lofton. “What if BTS are actually the next Beatles?”

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Ginseng Market Research Report

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Businessman Arthur Lowe turns 100: Says secret to long life is ginseng

Arthur Lowe and his son, Arthur Jr., at Lowe Fur and Herb.

By JERRY LANKFORD

Record Editor

Well known Wilkes entrepreneur and businessman Arthur Lowe says he has had a good life.

All 100 years of it.

Lowe turned the century mark on Monday – he was born March 18, 1919.

He is best known for his decades of owning and operating Lowe Fur and Herb Co., located at 108 5th St; North Wilkesboro. Having retired from the business a few years ago, it’s now managed by his son, Arthur, Jr., and mostly deals in scrap metals.

“We do a tremendous business in scrap metal,” Lowe said, although the fur trade has faded and the herb side of the business, “…is all but dead. I still go by there. My son is doing pretty good. He’ll make it.”

Lowe was born near Moravian Falls to Wilkes native Carl Arthur Lowe and Velona Stamey Lowe from Galax, Va. The family owned a peach orchard. When he was a small boy, the Lowes moved to Wilkesboro. It was in town that he learned about running a business.

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He said that one of his earliest memories was going to a place that had “piles of fur.”

Referring to the fur and herb business, Lowe commented, “It wasn’t something you could learn in any school. I guess I went to my father’s school,” he said with a laugh. “I learned about that from him in the 20’s and 30’s.”

A 1936 graduate of Wilkesboro High School, Lowe attended UNC-Chapel Hill and earned a bachelors degree in economics, graduating from the university in 1940. He returned to work full-time with his father. The wholesale side of the business sold commodities like flour, sugar and cigarettes to stores in Wilkes and surrounding counties.

The Lowe family also sold scrap metal throughout both world wars. The business received special commendations for its efforts.

During WWII, Lowe served in the U.S. Army in a mortar crew in the Pacific Theater. “We fought right alongside the Marines,” he said. He received a Purple Heart from a shrapnel wound he received to his leg during combat at Okinawa.

“They just bandaged me up and sent me back out,” he said, adding, “I saw the last 65 soldiers surrender in World War II. We didn’t know it at the time. That was right before they dropped the atomic bomb.”

Lowe and his brother, Elmer, eventually went in business together, but split in 1946, after returning home from the Army. Lowe had acquired the property where the company continues to operate today.

He was one of the “big buyers” of ginseng.

“I remember in 1976 bought we 20,000 pounds of North American ginseng and sold it to the Chinese,” Lowe said. “We bought it from all over America. We still buy it but not in as big a quantity as then. Now people can’t cross state lines (to sell the herb). It grows a lot in the Brushy Mountains, wild, raw ginseng.”

As for the fur trade, Lowe said. “There’s no demand for it now because of sanctions and faux fur. We used to have 10 people just working in furs. We sold to manufacturers in New York, Canada and Germany.”

The company traded in a large variety of animal furs.

“I sold 100,000 muskrat furs at one time to a man from England,” Lowe said. “I’ve probably sold a million raccoon furs. We sold otter, beaver, possum…I sold 10,000 possum furs at one time to a man. We also sold wild mink furs.” He explained that wild mink furs have a dark brown color unlike farm-raised minks. “I sold 20,000 wild mink furs one year.”

Lowe’s hobbies now are “fooling with old Ford cars.” He owns 10, from a 1936 model up into the 1950’s.

As for his personal life, Lowe married Elizabeth Neel in 1940. “She’s one of the prettiest gals that ever grew up in Wilkes County and still is.”

They had three children, Elizabeth, now deceased — named after her mother — Arthur, Jr. and Rebecca Lowe Whicker, wife of Dr. James Whicker, who was head of Raleigh Ear Nose and Throat Clinic.

He and his wife, Elizabeth, who is now 97, still live at home in Wilkesboro.

When asked the secret of his long life, Lowe was quick to answer: “Ginseng. The Chinese people swear by it.”

He said he soaks the root in vodka for several weeks until it the liquid turns a brownish color, and takes a spoonful each day. As for his wife, “She hasn’t taken it like me, but has taken it some. It does give you energy. I feel pretty good. I can still walk with a walker. She (his wife) does the same.”

Looking back over the century, Lowe said, “I’ve had an interesting life. I’ve had a great life and a great business.”

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Herbs that help with Migraines

To protect against problems when offering or even using herbs:

Be actually particular you have the right plant.Use simples.Understand that different prep work of the very same herb can work differently.Use nourishing, tonifying, inducing, and also potentially poisonous weeds wisely.BE CERTAIN YOU HAVE THE CORRECT PLANT Among the easiest ways to enter into trouble with an weed is actually to use the "incorrect"one. How could that happen?

Typical labels for weeds overlap, inducing confusion concerning the suitable identity. Cannabis that are actually classified appropriately might consist of extraneous component from one more, much more unsafe, natural herb.

Herbs might be noshed the wrong phase of growth or took care of incorrectly after gathering, inducing all of them to create harmful qualities.Protect on your own and also your consumers with these easy actions: Buy herbs simply from professional suppliers.Only buy natural herbs that are designated along with their herb title. Herb names are specific, but the same usual titles can refer to numerous different vegetations.

"Marigold "could be Calendula officinalis, a medical natural herb, or even Tagetes, an annual used as a bedding plant.If you expand the cannabis you sell, be careful regarding keeping different vegetations different when you produce as well as dry them, as well as uncontrollable concerning labeling.USE SIMPLES A straightforward is actually one weed.

For optimum safety, I ready, buy, market, educate about as well as use natural simples, that is actually: plannings having just one natural herb. (Occasionally I will add some mint to flavor a solution. )The additional herbs there are in a formula, the even more probability there is of unnecessary side-effects. Not surprisingly, everyone finds combos, intending to get even more for a lot less.

And many wrongly feel that natural herbs have to be used all together to become successful( probably due to the fact that possibly harmful herbs are actually often integrated along with defensive natural herbs to minimize the damages they cause ). But incorporating herbs with the very same properties, including goldenseal and also echinacea, is actually counter-productive and most likely to cause trouble than an easy.

A basic cast of echinacea is a lot more efficient than any kind of combination as well as a lot safer.Different people have different reactions to elements, whether medications, meals, or even cannabis. When natural herbs are actually joined all together in a formula as well as someone taking it has traumatic negative effects, there is actually no way to find out which herb is the source. Along with simples, it is actually easy to tell which herb is actually doing what.

If there is actually a negative reaction, various other weeds with comparable properties may be tried. Restricting the amount of herbs used in any kind of one day (to no more than 4 )supplies incorporated protection.

Side impacts from herbs are less typical than negative effects coming from drugs as well as normally less severe. If an herb disrupts the food digestion, it may be actually that the physical body is learning to refine it. Provide it a couple of more makes an effort before losing hope. Quit taking any weed that causes nausea, vertigo, pointy tummy discomforts

, diarrhea, problem, or even tarnished sight.(These results will typically develop very quickly. )Treacherous elm is actually a great remedy to any type of form of poison.If you are allergic to any kind of meals or even medicines, it is particularly essential to get in touch with information that list the negative effects of herbs before you use them.UNDERSTAND THAT DIFFERENT PREPARATIONS OF THE SAME HERB CAN WORK DIFFERENTLY The protection of any herbal treatment hinges on the way it is actually equipped as well as used.Tinctures as well as essences include the alkaloids, or

dangerous, parts of plants and also need to become used along with care as well as knowledge. Casts are as risk-free as the herb involved (view warns below for tonifying, boosting, sedating, or even potentially poisonous natural herbs). Best used/sold as simples, not combinations, especially when tough cannabis are being used.Dried cannabis created in to teas or even mixtures include the nourishing elements of the vegetations and also are usually very secure, especially when nourishing or even tonifying cannabis are used.Dried herbs in capsules are generally the least effective way to use herbs.

They are actually inadequately digested, improperly used, frequently worn-out or even useless, and also pretty expensive.Infused natural oils are actually offered as is, or even expanded in to lotions. They are actually much more secure than necessary oils, which are actually extremely strong as well as could be lethal if taken internally.

Herbal white vinegars are actually not simply decorative but mineral-rich too. A good medium for beneficial and also tonifying weeds; not as tough as tinctures for stimulants/sedatives.

Natural glycerins are actually readily available for those who prefer to stay clear of alcohol but are actually generally weaker in action than tinctures.USE NOURISHING, TONIFYING, STIMULATING, & POTENTIALLY

POISONOUS HERBS WISELY Weeds make up a group of numerous many thousand plants with largely differing actions. Some are nourishers, some tonifiers, some energizers and sedatives, and some are possible toxins.

To use them carefully and also effectively, our team need to understand each type, its own usages, best fashion of preparation, and usual dose range.Nourishing cannabis are actually the best of all natural herbs; side effects are actually rare.

Nourishing weeds are enjoyed any amount for any kind of span of time. They are actually used as meals, similar to spinach and also cabbage.

Nurturing natural herbs offer higher amounts of proteins, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, carotenes

, and also important fatty acids.Examples of beneficial natural herbs are: alfalfa, amaranth, astragalus, calendula flowers, chickweed, comfrey leaves behind, dandelion, fenugreek, flax seeds, honeysuckle florals, lamb's one-fourth, marshmallow, nettles, oatstraw, plantain( leaves/seeds ), purslane, reddish clover blooms

algae, Siberian ginseng, slippery elm, violet leaves behind, and also wild mushrooms.Tonifying weeds behave little by little in the body system as well as have a cumulative, rather than instant, result. They construct the operational capacity of a body organ(like the liver )or even a device(like the immune system). Tonifying cannabis are actually most favorable when they are actually used in tiny quantities for prolongedperiods of time.

The more bitter the tonic tastes, the less you need to take. Bland conditioners may be actually used wholesale, like nourishing herbs.Side results occasionally attend tonics, but are generally rather temporary. Many older herbalists wrongly corresponded inducing weeds along with tonifying herbs, triggering wide-spread abuse of many herbs, and also severe edge effects.Examples of tonifying natural herbs

are: barberry skin, burdock root/seeds, chaste plant, crone( mug) wort, dandelion root, echinacea, elecampane, fennel, garlic, ginkgo, ginseng, ground ivy, hawthorn berries, horsetail, lady's wrap, lemon ointment, milk thistle seeds, motherwort, mullein, pau d'arco, raspberry leaves behind, schisandra berries, St. Joan's wort, turmeric origin, usnea, crazy yam, and yellowish dock.Sedating and stimulating cannabis cause a selection of fast reactions,

several of which might be actually unwanted. Some aspect of the person may be pressured in order to help other components. Sturdy barbiturates as well as energizers, whether herbs or drugs, press our team outside our typical series of activity and might trigger solid negative effects. If our company rely on all of them and afterwards try to work without them, our experts end up more agitated (or even depressed)than before our experts started. Habitual use powerful sedatives and also stimulants- whether opium, rhubarb origin, cayenne, or coffee- triggers reduction of mood, issue of performing, and also bodily dependence. The more powerful the herb, the more moderate the dosage requires to be, as well as the briefer the duration of

its use.Herbs that tonify as well as nourish while sedating/stimulating are some of my preferred herbs. I use all of them openly, as they do not lead to dependency. Sedating/stimulating herbs that also tonify or nourish: boneset, catnip, citrus peeling, cleavers, ginger root, hops, lavender, marjoram, motherwort, oatstraw, passion bloom, pepper mint, rosemary, sage, skullcap.Strongly sedating/stimulating herbs feature: angelica, dark pepper, honored thistle root, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, cloves, coffee, licorice, opium poppy, osha origin, guard's bag, wonderful woodruff, chicken rhubarb origin, uva ursu leaves behind, valerian origin, wild lettuce drain, willow skin, as well as wintergreen leaves.Potentially poisonous herbs are extreme, effective medicines that are actually enjoyed tiny quantities and simply for as

lengthy as needed to have. Negative effects are common.Examples of possibly dangerous herbs are: belladonna, blood-root, celandine, chaparral, foxglove, goldenseal, henbane, iris origin, Jimson weed, lobelia, May apple( American mandrake ), mistletoe, stab origin, poison hemlock, stillingia origin, turkey corn origin, wild cucumber root.In enhancement, look at these thought and feelings on using cannabis properly: Respect the energy of vegetations to alter the body and sense in impressive ways.Increase trust in the recovery effectiveness of vegetations through trying remedies for small or exterior complications before, or while, teaming up with primary and also interior problems.Develop ongoing partnerships with competent therapists-personally or in publications

-that want plant based medicine.Honor the originality of every vegetation, everyone, every situation.Remember that everyone comes to be entire and also healed in their own one-of-a-kind way, at their

very own velocity. People, plants, and creatures can help in this particular procedure. But it is actually the body/spirit that does the recovery. Do not anticipate vegetations to become cure alls of.

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Seed Catalogue Review of the Year; 9th Annual!

It's garden planning and seed buying season, and I'm reviewing the catalogues for the 9th time! Time really does fly when you are having fun. The closure of The Cottage Gardener contributes to my sense that there's a little pulling back and trimming the excess going on this year, with fewer things being listed as new. Still, there is lots of fabulous stuff out there, new and old. Trends - I do see include an awful lot of people listing Garden and French sorrels (YAY GET SOME!). Ground cherries including Golden Berry continue to gather some speed. There are a number of (mostly mustard) greens advertised as having wasabi-like flavours. Purple amaranth is very "in"; purple and "odd" coloured vegetables in general, I would say. I'm seeing a lot of new varieties of lettuce. As ever, don't forget to check Seeds of Diversity's Seed Catalogue Index if you are looking for something specific (and, in fact, if you are just browsing too). A'Bunadh Seeds: Situated an hour from Edmonton, they supply seeds for short (zone 2a) Alberta seasons; 90 to 110 days. They have a surprisingly large and unusual collection! I like the looks of Pisarecka Zlutoluske yellow bean, Osgoode rutabaga, Feuer Kugel beets, and plenty of carrots. Lots of peas including Bill Jump, Hungarian Shelling, Mr Big, Top Pod, Knight, and more. An amazing selection of corn - I was going to say for so far north, but really, for anywhere - and numerous squash too, including locally adapted Lower Salmon River and Cindy Souper. In addition to vegetable seeds they have some perennial fruit seeds, including Nanking cherry and Evans cherry. They have a large selection of rare potatoes, but they are not seed grade. Garlic, comfrey, and six kinds of Jerusalem artichokes all sold for spring planting. AgroHaitai: The only Canadian source I know of for mostly Asian vegetables; they have a good reputation but most of their offerings are F1 hybrids. Interesting things I see include Yellow Stem Chinese celery, Dynasty Pak Choy (as little as 20 days to maturity!), Indian Mini bitter gourd (f1), Zou Sing luffa (f1, but they say not day-length sensitive), Black Champion eggplant, and You Fong Wong yardlong bean. Annapolis Seeds: Now up to 600 varieties, all of which they grow or contract themselves. New things for this year include Scarlet Frills mustard (really gorgeous!), Little Leaf pickling cucumber (hard to find and recommended), Rainbow Lacinato kale, a mix of Sea Buckthorn seeds probably best suited to breeders, Black Beauty tomato, Lower Salmon River squash, Shosaku gobo (burdock), Japanese White eggplant, and Midnight Lightning zucchini. Lebanese Metki cucumber is actually a melon, but used as a cucumber. Burt's Greenhouses: Mostly a nursery with ornamentals, Burt's also sells a good range of sweet potato slips. We got our Toka Toka Gold, Owairaka, and Purple sweet potatoes from them. They also have Cuban, Georgia Jet, and Tainung 65. Seems like a smaller selection than last year, but still good prices and the ability to buy in volume. The Cottage Gardener: I was sad to discover that this excellent source of seeds is no more. They posted on Facebook:

"We are closing our (virtual) doors.

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A large and very good selection overall. A good selection of watermelons includes Bozeman and Early Canada (which did very well for us when we grew it). Greta has an impressive array of unusual eggplants and 6 kinds of okra. Harmonic Herbs: They specialize in medicinal herbs, and also have a small collection of grains and flowers. Being another Alberta company they have short season vegetables including their own earliest Norwesterlee tomato, Blush tomato, Purple Peacock broccoli, Broccoli Raab (rapini), and Palla Rossa radicchio, Hawthorn Farm: Catalogue looks bigger and better than ever. I notice they now have a lot of seeds in bulk, so market gardeners and farmers take note. Sweet Reba acorn and Honeynut butternut squashes are Cornell releases. If you want to play around though, try the Lofthouse Landrace moschata squash. There are loads of tomatoes and lettuces. Best selection of zucchini around, including tried and true for us Tatume, Dark Green, Mutabile, and Ronde de Nice. 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You can get Mosaic Mix beans, which is a mixture of all their breeding lines of bush beans - sounds like a lot of fun. They have their own landrace cucumber, as well as Dragon Egg Croatian cucumber. Sugar Magnolia snap pea and Early Moonbeam watermelon can be hard to find. Ho Chi Minh yellow cayenne, Georgia Flame, and Gord's Cherry Bomb, and Lemon Drop are some other unusual hot peppers they list. Jardins de l'Écoumène: Site is in French. New offerings (nouveautés) include Brad's Atomic cherry tomato, Gogosar Bulgarian pepper, Agate edemame (soybean), concombre d'Antilles (West Indian gherkin), Tam Jalapeño and Thai hot peppers, and the oddly-named but tasty sounding Vegetarian hot peppers, also from the French Caribbean. They also have Toraji balloon flower, which most North Americans do not realize is a vegetable in addition to being a lovely garden perennial. 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Recently, while talking to the New York Times, a marijuana company called CBD the “Bitcoin” of the wellness world. But here is a counterproposal: Adaptogens are actually the cryptocurrency of the wellness world.

Sure, CBD is a bizarrely opaque “miracle” treatment, but many people have some idea what it is, or at least know that it’s a derivative of cannabis. Adaptogens are just as mysterious as CBD or the cryptocurrency Ethereum, and the high-minded promises driving their sales are similarly wild and overreaching. Heck, adaptogen names even sound like crypto names: eleuthero, schisandra, rhodiola.

Broadly speaking, adaptogens are a class of herbal and plant ingredients in supplements that claim to help your body adapt to stress more efficiently. What they supposedly specifically do is cloudier, because there are at least a dozen or more different ones.

Some have long histories as healing modalities over multiple cultures and thousands of years — which gives them a veneer of legitimacy. They act nonspecifically in the body, meaning they don’t work on one single body system or organ, at least according to their proponents. There’s debate among adaptogen believers about which substances can even be considered adaptogens and how they actually work.

As a society, we’re all just really tired and stressed out and looking desperately for some relief, as the rise of viral anxiety products like fidget spinners has shown. Supplement manufacturers have always preyed on those who are looking for a fix that they think they can’t find in the mainstream. Adaptogens have stepped in as a new/old remedy to fill the need for stress relief in the market.

You can buy coffee at Sephora containing adaptogenic mushrooms that will supposedly increase your focus. You can buy adaptogenic coconut butter to “empower your busiest day.” You can buy “dusts” containing adaptogens and other herbs to supposedly help your brain function better and improve your sex life. Ladies, you can even buy an adaptogenic oil “to keep your yoni delicious and supple.”

You can find adaptogenic products at Sephora, Nordstrom, Barneys, and Urban Outfitters. They’re fashionable. You don’t have to hunt them down in natural food stores.

They’ve even proven equally appealing to acolytes of actress and wellness “guru” Gwyneth Paltrow and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, both of whom prominently feature adaptogen-containing products for sale on the Goop and Infowars websites, respectively. When adaptogens landed a feature in the New York Times this past summer, it was a true sign that the fringe interest has finally bled into the mainstream.

Adaptogens are now a growing sector of the $4 trillion wellness industry. According to statistics reported by the American Botanical Council and based on market research, herbal dietary supplement sales were about $7.45 billion, up 7.7 percent from the prior year. In 2017, that number jumped to about $8.1 billion, up 8.5 percent.

It’s difficult to determine a breakdown of how much of that can be attributed to adaptogens since there are so many — up to a dozen or more, depending whom you ask. The most popular, ashwagandha, was the sixth most popular herbal supplement sold in so-called “natural” retail outlets, with more than $10 million in sales just in natural stores, up 25 percent from 2016. (Most popular adaptogen products are sold in combination with other ingredients, so it’s hard to drill down into their exact sales.) It’s still a small market, but it’s definitely growing.

Adaptogens fall perfectly into the gray area that wellness envelops. The language is often vague and invokes mysticism. Users say they can calm you down and also perk you up, depending on which one you need.

It’s easy to see how this could be incredibly appealing to someone who may be simultaneously stressed and exhausted. It’s also easy to see how marketing them can be used to manipulate people into buying them. As with so many wellness trends, they can’t possibly live up to the hype.

It’s common for proponents to talk about this class of ingredients — usually found in powders, capsules, and now even topically — as if they have magical properties. Definitions tend to be vague and broad, and they’re often applied to more than a dozen different ingredients.

“It’s kind of like your invisible internal shield,” says Elena Severin, the director of branch partnerships at the Detox Market, a chain of “clean beauty” and supplement boutiques that is growing quickly and has stores in LA, New York, and Toronto. It carries multiple brands of adaptogen supplements, including the two most popular, Moon Juice and Sun Potion. (Celestial names maybe not coincidental.)

Severin estimates that over the past year or so, the interest in and questions customers have about adaptogens have tripled.

So an invisible shield, got it. Let’s drill down a bit more.

“The simplest way to understand adaptogens is that they help your body to adapt to life,” writes Tero Isokauppila, the co-founder of the adaptogenic mushroom coffee Four Sigmatic, in an email to Vox. “Rather than serving a single purpose, they give your body whatever it needs right now to bring your body in balance.”

Hmm. Let’s hear from the ultimate authority on them.

“An adaptogen is an herb or mushroom that helps the body find homeostasis,” says Amanda Chantal Bacon, the founder of Moon Juice and arguably the godmother of modern adaptogen awareness, on a call with Vox.

Her viral 2015 Elle interview left the internet agog at the words she used — like “Shilajit resin” and “quinton shots” — in a food diary for the magazine. She’s since been covered in multiple publications, including features in the New Yorker in 2016 and in the New York Times magazine in mid-2017.

Much like Gwyneth Paltrow, who sells Moon Juice products on Goop, she’s taken the negative attention and lowkey ridicule and actually turned it into a booming lifestyle brand. Hers happens to be centered on adaptogens.

Bacon continues. “They’re bidirectional,” she says. “They’re going to move energies both ways.”

She explains that this means the same plant can make one person feel invigorated if they need energy and will calm another one down if they’re a “nervous wreck.”

It should be clear now why this class of substances is difficult to understand. Not surprisingly, these substances might not be the powerhouses that these various evangelizers say they are.

Dr. Rashmi Mullur is an assistant professor of medicine in the department of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism and associate chief of integrative medicine at UCLA. She is one of a handful of board-certified endocrinologists who also have integrative medicine certification.

She has an interest in adaptogens and a practice in LA, the city that is basically ground zero for wellness trends. She doesn’t sell or promote any supplement brands, but she does occasionally recommend them for patients.

“Practically everything is listed as an adaptogen online, but an adaptogen is any herb or supplement that helps the body’s response to stress,” says Mullur.

She says there is no standardized medical definition for adaptogens, and that even the concept of “stress” is defined pretty broadly. It can be caused by endocrine issues (cortisol is the usual hormonal culprit there), physical problems, mental problems, and even temperature. They all can cause the sensation we think of as “stress” and make us feel like crap, to use a layperson’s term.

Adaptogens can be derived from plants, herbs, or mushrooms. The most commonly used ones include ashwagandha, rhodiola, a slew of ginseng varieties, eleuthero, cordyceps, and reishi.

The science on most of these is conclusively inconclusive. Many have only been studied on cell lines or in animals, and if there are human studies, they tend to be published in tiny, niche journals. A science writer who reviewed some of the studies for Self noted that many were not “compliant with international criteria for proper clinical trial reporting.”

“I really don’t recommend anything to a patient unless it has some human studies,” says Mullur.

Ashwagandha, which the Detox Market’s Severin says is often a “gateway” into adaptogens for people, is one of the best-studied, and even has a couple of well-designed modern studies, but that’s not saying much. The subject groups were small, meaning you can’t draw any generalized, meaningful conclusions, and there haven’t been follow-up studies to see if the results could be replicated.

But Mullur explains that it’s thought to work along the pathway called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), a neurological and hormone feedback loop that mediates the stress response. There are still some pretty major caveats here.

Studies “don’t always translate to clinical utility,” Mullur says. A lot of the time, patients assume they’re stressed because of an HPA-induced cortisol response, and they try to self-medicate with adaptogens. “I always want to know what the underlying root cause of the fatigue is. Very rarely is the cause of the fatigue a hormonal imbalance,” says Mullur.

Even if someone does have a stressed-out HPA, it’s really not clear from the small amount of available evidence what dose would be effective, how often it should be taken, or who should or shouldn’t take it.

Plus these substances can have side effects, the way a drug does. Ashwagandha has been reported to potentially cause miscarriage. Mullur explains that because it binds to steroid receptors, it can affect hormonal function. “I certainly wouldn’t advise anyone to take it in pregnancy.”

Unlike many of her contemporaries in endocrinology who don’t know much about adaptogen supplements, though, Mullur does sometimes let her patients take them. However, she discourages mixtures of several ingredients because then it’s hard to know what, if anything, might be helping or causing harm. Many of the most popular formulas, like Moon Juice’s, are sold in mixtures and combinations, and there’s no guarantee what is in the formula and in what quantity.

“I’m helping guide patients through the online mess of information,” Mullur says. And this is the most important point here. Most people who are self-medicating willy-nilly with supplements will likely get no real benefit, and could possibly even harm themselves. Mullur is at least an educated medical source, able to evaluate people’s symptoms, consider the other supplements they’re taking, and try to make some sense of it.

When asked if, ultimately, she thought this new trend of adaptogens everywhere was good or bad, Mullur says, “Probably bad. I don’t want to come across as if I hate all herbal supplements, because I don’t, but I think whenever you have trends in medicine that are unregulated, it’s a breeding ground for misuse and abuse.”

Timothy Caulfield would agree. He’s a professor of health law and science policy at the University of Alberta in Canada and an outspoken advocate against the proliferation of pseudoscience. He wrote a book called Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash and hosts a Netflix documentary series debunking various wellness trends called A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.

“In total, the solid science is lacking, particularly in the context of many of the marketing claims associated with adaptogens — like the idea that they can induce calm and focus,” he says in an email to Vox.

The bottom line is that you can’t really broadly apply the promise of vague benefits across an entire class of substances without real evidence. But the wellness industry capitalizes on the existence of a gray area and is adept at claiming things without actually claiming anything.

“When it comes to supplements, the law is that you can market it for just about anything, as long as you stay away from saying it can treat or cure a disease. Without any human data on safety, much less efficacy, it’s entirely legal to advertise a supplement as if it is good for your health,” Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has studied dietary supplements, writes in an email to Vox. “It’s very lucrative for companies but very unfortunate for consumers looking for something that will actually work.”

A three-tiered definition of what can qualify as an adaptogen actually does exist, dating back to some secretive USSR research on adaptogens. It’s still pretty vague, though. According to NutraIngredients, a business-to-business site geared toward supplement and food-based businesses, to be classified as an adaptogen an ingredient must be “nontoxic”; it must work on a variety of bodily systems rather than just one; and it must “normalize” bodily functions. (The adapto-preneurs above also all echoed this definition.)

But, again, it’s not a recognized definition by any official governing or medical body; it’s just the common classification among those who use and study them.

Adaptogens weren’t always called adaptogens, though. Some, like ashwagandha and ginseng, have been long used and studied as healing substances in ayurvedic and Chinese medicine respectively. The modern iteration, however, all started at laboratories behind the Iron Curtain in the mid-20th century, according to a comprehensive 2010 review paper in the journal Pharmaceuticals.

During World War II, Soviet pilots and submarine crews were given schisandra in pill form, for energy and as a “tonic” to calm them down. The Soviets first apparently became interested in it in the late 19th century after learning about its uses in the Far East.

Dr. Israel Brekhman is often credited as being the godfather of adaptogens and the person who coined the term and clarified the definition. He and his partners apparently racked up more than 1,000 studies on the plants, and won the highest award in the Soviet Union at the time for his work.

According to the review article, “The aim of the stress research was to develop drugs and methods able to stimulate the intrinsic adaptive mechanisms of the organism to help it survive in situations of intense or prolonged stress, whilst preferably maintaining the capability for physical and mental work.” The “organism” in question, presumably, was people.

Which brings us back to Amanda Chantal Bacon. What started out as a personal interest for her, exploring supplements for an autoimmune disease, became the Moon Juice empire in only a few short years.

(There is also Sun Potion, which is a staple in trendy wellness stores. The founders stay more out of the limelight than Bacon, but one co-founder told Racked he considered himself “an avenue for these plants,” setting up shop in Santa Barbara several years ago.)

“I wasn’t concerned with the allopathic science behind it, and the plants really worked for me,” says Bacon. Allopathic medicine, otherwise known as the mainstream kind served up in hospitals and by pharmaceutical companies, is highly suspect in some adaptogenic circles.

Bacon started Moon Juice as a shop in LA, but the now-famous — or infamous — Brain Dust, Sex Dust, and other dusts are sold in mainstream beauty and wellness emporiums like Sephora, Urban Outfitters, and Nordstrom.

Her newest offering, a blend of four adaptogens and other ingredients like sunflower oil, is called SuperYou. She says it sold out multiple times at its several retailers and was out of stock on Moon Juice’s website for several weeks. “People were calling shops and driving to stores just to find one in stock,” she says.

The interest in adaptogens by a mainstream, not particularly granola/crunchy consumer has ballooned this year, according to both Bacon and the Detox Market’s Severin. Severin says this is reflected by the customer who is buying SuperYou. “You’re not going to engage in a 30-minute conversation on what adaptogens do. They just want the pill,” she says. Bacon says another capsule formula is in the works.

Adaptogens, as happens with trendy food and wellness ingredients all the time, have now found their way into skin care. Youth to the People, an indie brand popular at Sephora, has an “adaptogen deep moisture cream” that contains ashwagandha, reishi, and rhodiola. Moon Juice has a skin care line too, as well as that “yoni” oil. It includes a serum and facial acid.

Bacon had been against using skin care for a long time, saying she didn’t believe in it. But when she hit her mid-30s and started to see signs of aging, she caved and tried P50, a popular facial acid beloved by beauty editors and celebrities. She was appalled when she discovered she loved it because, in her words, it’s “so dirty, it’s outlawed in Europe.” (There are different versions of the product because one of its original ingredients, phenol, is indeed banned in topical skin care in some countries.)

So her Moon Juice version is the adaptogenic version. The reishi in it supposedly “combats signs of oxidative stress.”

Perhaps the biggest sign that adaptogens are bleeding into the mainstream is that they’ve already penetrated both the far left and far right sides of popular culture. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop and Alex Jones’s Infowars both sell supplements containing adaptogens, which Quartz broke down in 2017.

Goop sells Moon Juice products and Four Sigmatic super-mushroom-adaptogen coffees. Infowars sells a product called DNA Force Plus for $75, containing cordyceps, reishi, and other adaptogens, that claims to “support optimal energy levels while adapting your body to handle the daily bombardment of toxins.”

Amazon spits out more than 1,000 results for dozens and dozens of supplement brands when you search for “adaptogens.” But in the end, they have the same major limitations that all supplements do.

“This is a largely evidence-free industry,” says Caulfield, the University of Alberta professor. “Despite the marketing claims, most of us do not need to consume boatloads of supplements. On the contrary, it can be harmful.”

As with all supplements, adaptogens are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and they can’t make drug-like claims, which is why the bottles are filled with vague words like “well-being” and “calming.” There’s not a guarantee that the ingredients a company says are in the supplement will be there, and there can even be cross-contamination with prescription medications and other substances.

And, as an article on the University of California Berkeley’s wellness site notes, plant-derived supplements like adaptogens have a lot of potential for substance variability due to different plant species used, which may result in different compounds being derived. There’s even a difference in chemical composition depending on what part of the plant is used. There’s no standardization of this and no universally agreed-upon dosing, so it’s essentially a crapshoot, like all supplements are.

Supplement companies have little motivation to study their own products. “They can just say it works,” says Mullur, the UCLA doctor. “They can sell it or they can spend a bunch of money to study it and potentially find that it has no benefit. There’s too much risk.”

So should you buy ethereum (the cryptocurrency) or eleuthero (the adaptogen)? Sure, but only if you’re comfortable with spending money on the unknown.

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wildozark · 7 years ago

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What I mean by ‘Nature Farming’ is not the same as ‘natural farming’, ‘organic farming’, or ‘natural farming methods’. Explanations for all of these things come up when you do a search online for ‘nature farming’. But nothing turns up for true nature farming. Hopefully this post will show up in the search engine results list soon.

I am literally farming nature.

I’m not doing conventional farming using natural techniques, or practicing organic or permaculture farming (although where I do actually grow things on purpose, I do adhere to those principles).

What I’m farming is already there.

For the most part, the plants I use in my business already grow here naturally. I encourage some of them to multiply by dividing or transplanting or seeding them in more areas, but the habitats to support them already exist here. No tilling involved, though sometimes I do make nursery beds by creating rock wall terraces on the hillsides.

The terraces are in the deep shade under trees with the kinds of leaves that make good mulch for ginseng. They keep the pots from washing away during rains and when the creek floods, provides easy access for seedlings when I need to fill orders, and is a staging/holding area for the items I bring with me to market.

A ginseng habitat in a pot! This one includes a 3-year old American ginseng with a handful of companions for $75. Available only for local pickup at the nursery, or the farmers market booth (check schedule). Reserve in advance to make sure I have one with me by emailing [email protected]. Bare root collections can be shipped in fall.

American ginseng seedlings are the main things that use the terraced beds. I transplant the seedlings to the other habitats and I also put them in pots sell them at market. When it’s not growing season, I sell them as dormant, bare root plants. Wild Ozark is the only certified ginseng nursery in Arkansas. Wild ginseng lives here naturally, and I’ve purchased seeds to grow even more of it. I keep the wild populations separate from the wild-simulated.

When I say ‘wild-simulated’ that means I’m growing the ginseng in the same way it would grow in the wild. All I do is plant the seed in a space where it can flourish. I do have one small area set aside as a teaching environment. It’s my Ginseng Habitat Demonstration Garden. It’s not quite a natural area yet, because it is still recovering from being logged many years ago. As the trees get bigger it will return to a natural dense shade forested habitat.

In addition to the ginseng seedlings and habitat pots, I also keep many of the companions in propagation beds so I can easily transplant them to pots and sell them, or harvest bare root plants for dormant shipping. Those plants include goldenseal, bloodroot, black cohosh, blue cohosh, a variety of ferns, spicebush plants, pawpaw tree seedlings, and doll’s eyes. I also keep some of my other favorites like trillium, Dutchman’s breeches, and trout lilies, too.

Stewardship of Mother Nature versus Stewardship by Me

The Ginseng Habitat Demonstration Garden is not left completely to nature because I’m taking out things like honeysuckle and wild roses. I’m thinning some of the trees I don’t want there to favor some of the ones I do. The reason for that is to speed up the process that will make it a better habitat for the American ginseng and the companion plants that also grow in the same sort of environment. While the rest of Wild Ozark is pretty much left up to the stewardship of Mother Nature, this demonstration garden is being tended by me.

While the garden isn’t an ideal environment yet for the ginseng, it will eventually be so and the plants are doing well enough in the meantime. My process of doing this is helpful to others who want to do the same thing on their own property. Additionally, and the main reason I chose this spot, is because it is in a location close to the front gate and I don’t mind sharing that location with visitors.

Nature Farming means Harvesting Nature

I harvest things provided by nature. Things naturally growing, dropped to the ground, or dried on the stem. Wildcrafting is the gathering of wild plants. I’ll make ointments or extracts and teas from the medicinal plants. Some of them I’ll sell, and some of them I keep for our own household use. The parts I gather include fruits (persimmons, pawpaw), flowers (echinacea and beebalm), berries (elderberries, spicebush berries, raspberry, blackberry, etc.), seeds (lobelia), nuts (hickory, acorns), stems (witch hazel) or roots (ginseng, goldenseal).

Using Nature Farming Products to Create Art

So here’s where my nature farm departs from what most people normally think of when they think ‘farming’. The bulk of what Wild Ozark produces is botanical items most people barely notice. Usually it’s lying on the ground in the process of decomposing so it can return to the soil. Sticks, vines, leaves, bits of bark that fell from a tree… all treasures to me.

These harvests include things I use in my arts and crafts, like mosses and lichens and bark. These are things I simply pick up and put in my bucket during my morning walks.

I use all of these things to create my Forest Folk, Fairy Houses, and Fairy Gardens. These are very popular and I even hold workshops on how to make these things so anyone can learn how a bit of nature farming can lead to beautiful Nature Art. I sell the small ferns for fairy gardens, bags of moss and preserved leaves, too. You can see where I’ve used twigs, acorns, leaves, dried grass, moss and small ferns in the following photos.

“The Wild Ones”, a pair of Forest Folk musicians and a dancer.

Reading Sitting Man Forest Folk

A twig chair for Forest Folk

A wee little fairy house made from Wild Ozark nature farm botanicals.

Woodworker Forest Folk

A Wild Ozark Fairy Garden

At a Forest Folk Workshop, if the table isn’t messy, we’re not having enough fun.

Forest Folk Chair

Bark from the Shagbark Hickory

One of our Nature Farm harvests is the bark of a certain tree. Burnt Kettle, my husband’s company, uses the bark from Shagbark hickories to make a delicious syrup. These trees grown naturally all around here.

Eventually we’ll harvest the wood from certain trees for my husband’s woodworking projects. He needs a bandsaw and sawmill to make boards from the abundant cedars that grow here.

Indirect Harvests from my Nature Farm

Art, photography, stories and workshops. Being around nature all of the time inspires me to write, draw, and take photos. I love sharing what I learn and enjoy with others, so I’m always happy to be contacted about doing workshops on topics like nature journaling, ginseng growing or habitat identification, and creating nature art. I’m not an expert on photography, so I’ll leave workshops on that to the ones that are. The outstanding photos from the ones I take are available for sale but I don’t have most of them listed at the shop yet.

Thanks for visiting with Wild Ozark website and taking the time to read about what I do here. Come by and visit the Ginseng Habitat Demonstration Garden if you’re in the area during spring and summer or come by the market booth to see the Forest Folk and Fairy Gardens! The market schedule will be kept current so you’ll know where I’ll be and when, but you can always email in advance if you like. Click here to get all of my contact information.

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