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Check out this great article on my goji plants in HOUR magazine. READ ARTICLE HERE

Thank you Alexa for yet another awesome article on my work! Alexa has written about my companies over the past 9 years several times – thus, in my mind, she is the most talented writer in the city right now! lol

I took the plants from SEED to BERRY in 2 seasons while over wintering them in pots TWICE! What this means is this plant is Extremely hardy. At night I would have dreams of a berry colored woman telling me secrets about how to grow the plant, what it needs, how to prune it, how to transplant it and how to make it sing. I prefer this story more than how I really figured those things out

So – your goji’s by the end of this year would be multi-stem and around 4-6ft high depending on when we start growing them for you. All of the plants we did grow are being kept for production and experimentation. Sadly, half of my goji crop died last year due to a rare landscape disease commonly called ‘divorce.’ So we are taking orders right now to start growing your goji hedge. These plants express a luminous, shimmering silverbluegreen presence with airy long branching, similar to forsythia or red stem dogwood. This plant can be left to grow wild, or pruned into geometric hedges. It can even be grown as a vine.

I have read that the bark is anti-bacterial. The leaves taste AMAZING and are great in salads and tea. The berry is worthy of rolling around in naked. This is an exceptional plant. Get your order in.

Check out the first video we did on the goji last spring. Word JP! Thanks for being there with me on that one.

How I got turned on to growing Goji -

So have you gotten one of these phone calls ‘Hey Old Pal! Wow, I really missed your voice, it has been so long – hey, there is this new business…’ Yep…lolol…you know the rest. Well there is a company selling Goji Juice and they are using an MLM format and selling this juice for around $30 a bottle…yes THIRTY. So, 2 ‘friends’ of mine call me a few years ago trying to slang this thirty dollar kool aid on me because it is ‘Goji’ juice and Goji has this and that and blah blah blah. Well, it is true, the berry has been used in Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Chinese medicine for a long, long time and has numerous dynamic benefits. So, their initial call got me very excited about their product – A. because I trusted them and B. because I loved the berry and new of it’s benefits. Well, as I looked into this ‘wonder’ product I found out that in fact less than 10% of the drink is Goji Juice and of that 10% it is 100% reconstituted juice – meaning they dried the berry and then rehydrated it and then made the juice….Can you think of a single wine maker that would dehydrate a grape, rehydrate it and then try to make wine? BS. Total BS. At the end of the day, this product was $30 pear juice with goji flavor and worse, they claimed it was A. Raw and B. Organic yet could not produce any paper trail to substantiate. Despite their ruthless sales efforts which succeeded in showing me they were without decency, at least in this regard, I stayed farrr away from that goji drink racket and decided to instead start my own Goji Racket- get the real thing, real fresh, really organic and really cheap. In my own findings, the best place on the internet to get dried goji’s is www.gojiberry.com talk to Julie and tell her Michael from detroit sent you along. 100% of my berries from her sprouted. I don’t get any kick backs or anything from her…yet…lol…but I get a kick out of knowing I can bring more business to her. They are family owned and operated and her husband is a Tibetan Medicine Practioner. Worthy of all capital first letters.

So, in short, beware of expensive goji drinks, BS and people who are too friendly or over complimentary just prior to a sales effort (aka – BS).

Posted by admin on January 10th, 2010 at 8:52 pm under Articles, Edible Plants For Sale, Goji Berries.