Prices on herbs?

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I normally sell herbs to Organic Solutions

according to how scarce the herb is.

Golden Rod is easy to find, gather and dry. I just have to walk out my

back door to get as much as I need. Probably ten - twenty minutes of my

time. $10 a pound.

Goldenseal on the other hand is much more time consuming. A days worth

of searching and I may only come back with a handful or none at all.

$150~ a pound fresh. Herbs of this value are tinctured upon returning

from wild crafting.

Now truly valuable herbs are even harder to find and I might charge

more than $300 per root depending upon the age/potency and size. We're

talking forty year old crops. These herbs are very hard to cultivate

and require strange growing conditions.

To answer your question in a general sort of way. $10 to $20 dollars a

pound for most Organic dry common herbs. Mint, Cayenne, Passion Flower,

Plantain (not RattleSnake Plantain), Gravel Root, Black Pepper corns

and Hawthorn Berries to name a few.

Normally herbs at these low prices are from around the globe and not of

great quality or freshness. Its best to support your local

Wildcrafter (if you can find him) as you can be sure that herbs

were not irradiated at the boarder and are of high workability.

 

Best

 

~B

 

 

On 4/22/2010 1:23 PM, mountainrainstone wrote:

 

 

Well, how are prices for herbs set?

Is it whim? Do people look at what other people are charging and go

according to that?

 

Joy

 

herbal remedies ,

Bryan Shillington <bryan wrote:

>

> It sounds like your trying to find the Enemy. They have the

largest web

> presence and who they are is extremely confusing. They're owned by

 

> Monsanto one day and DuPont the next.

>

> Woh Check it out. when i just typed Dupont my spell check told me

it

> was actually spelled DuPont with a capital P.

> And herbology is not even a word. Try typing the word Herbology.

You see

> how Spell check says it's misspelled with no correct spelling?

> What I'm saying is according to my computer, Herbology is not a

word

> while the names of large corporations have correct spellings.

>

> In French Du means 'of or from' and Pont means 'Bridge'.

>

> Sorry Joy Sherri.

> I went off track there. I have know idea how to answer your

question.

>

> ~B

>

>

> On 4/22/2010 3:53 AM, mountainrainstone wrote:

> >

> > Where can you find the going rates of certain herbs,

categorized and

> > rated according to quality, country of origin and who

determines these

> > prices? Is there a cooperative somewhere that decides these

matters?

> > Who are they? Do they have a web presence?

> >

> > Joy Sherri

> >

> >

>