Week of 9/15/24

Didn’t get nothing wrote last week, as it was very busy. I got some ginseng seed from up north the Wausau area on Sept. 12, and then started to plant it. But first I had to water the ground as it has been very dry here for the last month. And if ginseng seed dries out it will die. I now have about 2/3 of it planted. Then on the 19th of Sept. we got a nice 0.8 in. of rain so I will no longer need to water the ground first. Now as I write this on Sept. 22nd we got another 1 inch of rain last night. So now maybe the grass will green back up and start growing again, as the pastures were drying up and turning brown. I started to put hay out for the cows on Sept. 17th.

Got a nice order for some ginseng root from a Chinese doctor on Sept. 15th, so I have been digging some ginseng root for him. Fall is really coming on fast as on many of the soybean fields the leaves have fallen off and some farmers are starting to harvest the beans. Chopping corn for silage is coming to an end as the plants are fast becoming too dry. Harvesting for dry corn should start this month yet in September. Quite early for this area.

Out in the woods where there are hickory tress the ground is getting covered with nuts as they are coming down fast and there is a big crop of them. The walnuts started to drop there nuts after the wind and rain on Sept. 19th. These have been a so-so crop this year. As for this oaks very few nuts in this area.

At the Spring Green farmers market we continue to do very well I am always amazed at how many pies we sell at that little market in a village of just over 1000 people. We just got our last order of 50 books a week ago and we sold 31 of them already. Ace Hardware of Muscoda will put books in their stores in Richland Center and La Crosse so that will be 2 more outlets. The books sell when they are displayed, that’s why I don’t understand why the publisher doesn’t get the books out in bookstores like they promised. There cut on each book is over 10 dollars while ours is just over 2 dollars. Why should we have to do all of the promoting? We have sold over 200 books while supposedly they have only sold 3. Maybe it just takes a while for the word to get around how good the book is. It is till maintaining its 5-star ratiing.

-Helmuth Krause