Airhead,
Latt's offer it actually quite generous (keeping only 40%) when offering to hunt with you on your property.
If you really want to know if seng grows there, want to know how to find it, how to grow it, having a experinced seng hunter meet with you and hunt the property a time or two and share his experience and knowledge with you - well that is just worth a lot.
It is sure not easy to just go out and start successfully hunting and finding seng on your own. Most all of us experienced seng hunters had a friend that took us and trained us up back early on and I expect most have fond memories of those days and the friendships made.
Latt is a bit more generous then I am on that - I always suggest 50% split when I hunt seng on someone elses property (whether they go along or not) and if they do go along and want to learn to find seng or how to grow it (proper stewardship practices) well I gladly teach them all of that.
What I typically do is sort of lead them to the areas where seng will be found, and hunt until I find one, but I don't point it right out to them I just say - there is one over here and then let them come and look for it until they find it.
I show them how to dig proper, and how to replant the berries, and then explain companion plants and where we need to look next based on companion plants found, the lay of the land, trees in the area, etc.
I will have them keep that first seng top and as they hunt just stop and take a look at it occasionally to get their eyes trained. Then when I find another one I will call them over and let them find it again.
Usually after a few hours they are finding seng on their own.
At days end I probably found 90% or more of what we found that day but then we split it 50/50.
I usually just divide the roots up into two piles and then let the other guy pick which pile he wants. That is sure a simple and fair way to divide the stash.
One of our Decons at Church heard me talking about seng last year and asked me if I thought there might be seng on his property. We ended up hunting it last fall and did fairly well (got 22 oz of green root in about 2.5 hours).
He was thrilled and enjoyed the hunt very much and the nice pile of roots he had at the end he was going to keep and consume himself.
I have another spot lined up to hunt this fall with another land owner and member of our local Church. He wants to go along and learn how to find it, where it would be best to try and grow it on his land, and wants me to come and teach him all that and we will split the roots 50/50 that we find during that teaching process.
Anyway - Good Luck at finding / growing seng on your 90 acre tract of land.
For every pound of seed that you plant ( a pound is around 7000 seed ) you should harvest around 7 pounds of dry root.
Plant 1000 seeds and you should harvest 1 pound of dry root.
The roots really need 7-10 years growth to be quality marketable roots.
Thanks
TNhunter
