The community garden model
Your garden,
on Ba Vì.
You are not buying a product — you are adopting specific ginseng plants, each with its own ID, its own journal, and a real, flesh-and-blood caretaker. The growing region is forest-guarded, the community earns a steady income, and you have a garden that truly exists, even while you live in the city.
The life cycle of a garden plot
Seven years, four seasons of harvest
Receive your plant
Tissue-cultured seedlings go into the garden. You receive your plant's ID, its geo-tagged photo, and its origin record.
Leaf & flower
Each year you receive ginseng-leaf tea and ginseng-flower tea from your very own plant — along with honey from the flowering season.
Tracking
Field photos, growth data, and care logs are updated to your plant's record.
Harvest the root
The mature ginseng root is harvested, identified, and handed over — or left to gather a few more years of age.
Why this model exists
The community keeps the forest. The forest keeps the ginseng.
Vietnamese ginseng grows only under the canopy of old-growth forest. When the ginseng garden holds value, the forest above it becomes an asset the whole community protects. Every garden plot sold means another share of a forest-guard's wage, another beekeeping household, another reason for the forest to stand undisturbed.
- Grower income is spread evenly across the years, not piled into a single root harvest
- The revenue-share ratio is stated openly in the garden contract
- The forest-guard fund is drawn directly from every garden plot
Garden plots for the 2026 seedling season are now open
The number of plants each season is limited to maintain the proper planting density under the forest canopy.
Request a garden plot consultation