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Fall is falling upon us, and at Oregon's Wild Harvest, that means it's time to wrap up the harvest of above-the-ground plants. These include skullcap, echinacea tops, and calendula flowers (p.s. did you know calendula is the Herb of the Year, as declared by the Herb Society of America? It is.)

Following the harvest of our above-the-ground plants, we will begin working on the roots, probably mid-October. Plants like dandelion root, astragalus root, and ashwagandha. We have an excellent crop of astragalus root this year, as well as some hardy ashwagandha. It's difficult to find good quality, certified organic ashwagandha, so we are lucky to have it in such abundance. We will wait until the last minute to harvest the ashwagandha, and let it grow as big as possible, since weather gave us a rather slow start this spring and many of the plants could use a little more time in the ground.

After the root harvest, we will turn the soil and plant our cover crops, like rye, oats, red clover and crown vetch.

During all of this harvesting we are of course aggressively stripping and collecting seeds for the next season. There's no shortage of work to be done, but it's a very rewarding time of year as well: seeing our hard work come to fruition.

We look forward to putting our harvest in your hands!

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