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Can't even use

08-30-2005 19:13:36

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Just curious as to what other areas of the US or even other countries grow mint.

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Jerry/MT

08-31-2005 17:44:09

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Besides what grows wild in my pasture, they used to grow it around Kalispel,MT til the buyers decided that price was more important then quality and started buying overseas. Or that's what a former grower told me.

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Robert in W. Mi.

08-31-2005 17:27:51

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

It's grown here, and they are harvesting it right now...

Robert

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wolfman

08-31-2005 13:14:45

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Have a spot of it growing wild in the pasture here in s.w.PA. Also remember my Grandma having a patch of -----mint (forget what she called it, but I think peppermint) planted around the garage back in the 50's. You can still smell it 50 yrs later.

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Can't even use my name

08-31-2005 10:46:50

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

So it sounds like mint is grown as a crop in Northern IN and Lower MI, Michiana as we call it and in Oregon, Washington, and I think there was an Idaho in there. Was at New Energy, the local ethanol plant and they were rolling the mint ground and the brain just kept on thinkin.

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Mike (WA)

08-31-2005 08:13:03

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Still grown commercially in western Washington and Oregon, but not nearly as much of it as there was 30 years ago, when I worked for PCA. Same problem as other crops- scarcity leads to good prices leads to oversupply leads to price crash, and the cycle starts over again. Problem was more intense with mint, because of the high investment in boilers and stills, and no alternative uses for that equipment in bad years. We still have a mint processing plant in Chehalis, Washington- they get the raw oil from the farms, and process it. Smells great when driving by.

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Dan

08-31-2005 06:21:01

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Got mint growing in my garden right now in North Central Texas.

Dan

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Vince H

08-31-2005 06:10:24

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

We have it growing wild in patches around the farm in mid-east Pa. I think it is spearmint, but not really sure. Usually we don't bother with it and it gets cut down while cutting hay. The nice thing is after the field is down we'll pick up the mint and take it inside for grandma to make gallons of mint tea. That sure tastes good with lunch while baling hay.

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Leroy

08-31-2005 05:55:31

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Northwest Indiana grows large fields of what I was told is spearmint but you sure can smell it if you are in area about harvest time, August

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msb

08-31-2005 08:03:34

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Leroy, 08-31-2005 05:55:31

Both spearmint and peppermint are grown in that area.

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David in Mo

08-31-2005 04:27:58

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Got some in my yard now..... ....grows like a weed..... .we put it in our sweet tea!

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loko17

08-31-2005 05:15:55

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to David in Mo, 08-31-2005 04:27:58

Mint grows well in Woodstock, Virginia. Wife uses it in sweet tea but did you ever hear of Mint Julips? Yum yum!

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Farmer in the Dells (WI)

08-31-2005 03:59:46

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Have a commercial farm here in Central WI. It is situated between several dairy farms and a large hog operation next to the interstate. Makes for an aromatic mile or two along the highway. Even more so than the other farms. :)

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alex7407

08-31-2005 03:49:42

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

I find some every once in a while around here in western PA.

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JImmy King

08-31-2005 02:31:26

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

I grows wild here in Southwest Missouri, but not in abundance. I smelled some somewhere this summer while mowing the yard.

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Coldiron

08-30-2005 22:21:55

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Mint is grown along Idaho State Hwy 41 just North of Post Falls Idaho. Interstate 90 and Hwy 41 intersect at Post Falls. Sure smells nice when it rains or they have cut it.

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Loren

08-30-2005 21:43:43

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Western Oregon also, Willamette Valley. There's enough of it here that I notice it.

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Easy

08-30-2005 21:12:04

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

St. Johns Michigan. I was given a tour of a mint operation there. It is grown on muck ground. I think it is peppermint. It has been grown there for many years. It is harvested by chopping, the choppper putting the crop into a special wagon. The wagon is taken to the still, a hood put over it, and a steam pipe fitted on the bottom. A 200 hp boiler pumps steam into it, the hood collects the vapor off the top, and runs it thru a condenser. The vapor condenses, and the peppermint oil is skimmed off the top. A years crop for 200 acres might be a couple of barrels. The oil is so potent that a drop on your tounge will burn it. I was told that a mint wagon, fully loaeded, weighed 17 tons. If it started raining, you had to get off the field immediately, because the muck ground would turn liquid very fast. Big 4 wheelers are used to pull the chopper and wagons. St. Johns has a mint festival every year, and a local bank has a special vault for mint storage. A barrel is worth $$$$$. Easy.

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onefarmer

08-31-2005 07:24:59

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Easy, 08-30-2005 21:12:04

I'm in St.Johns also! It's not only grown on muck but on regular ground too. I have it with in a mile to the west of me and can smell it all summer after it starts growing in the spring. One of the best smells there is, Glad I like it. Never done the mint tour, Guess I need to one of these years. I live SW of SJ 10 miles

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Davis In SC

08-30-2005 21:31:05

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Easy, 08-30-2005 21:12:04

Sounds like a barrel of mint oil is worth a Mint .. :^)

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Keith-Or

08-30-2005 20:20:23

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

It is grown here in N E Oregon as a cash crop.Sure smells great when they are harvesting it....Keith

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Hal/WA

08-30-2005 20:16:28

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Thirty years ago at least one farmer grew mint in the Spokane Valley. I think it was peppermint and the plots were only a couple of acres in size. They used sprinkler pipe irrigation and had to move the pipes around by hand. The mint sure did smell good when we drove past it on the way to the lake where we swam.

I haven't seen any mint around here for years....I always wondered just how it was harvested and processed. I doubt it was hand cut, but the plots would have been small enough so that might have been a possibility. I suppose the harvested mint was distilled in some way. Maybe the marked for the mint oil went away or they just decided it didn't pay well enough.

Unfortunately now there are suburban houses where the mint plots were. I hate to see good farmland go for housing, but "thats progress", and I wouldn't doubt that the farmer made a lot more money with that land selling it to a developer than he ever did farming it. OH WELL.....

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big fred

08-30-2005 21:18:37

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Hal/WA, 08-30-2005 20:16:28

He probly made a mint selling out.

Seriously, there are still herb farms in Western Washington, some mint is grown here. We used to have peppermint growing wild on Dad's farm in North Dakota. It must be pretty hardy stuff.

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buickanddeere

08-30-2005 19:52:02

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

When ever I bush hog the trail down through and across the creek. The mint fumes in the air really clears out the sinuses and almost makes the eyes water. Located in the frozen north about three hours above Detroit.

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msb

08-30-2005 19:36:20

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Quite a bit of it grown in northern Indiana,up towards Chicago.Toured a mint farm a few years ago.It was an interesting trip.Treated somewhat like haylage except it is blown into enclosed wagons which are hooked up to steam and the oil is extracted by processing it with steam.From there, the water is removed by distillation leaving only the oil from the leaves.One drop of it can flavor thousands and thousands of toothpicks.

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Fudd@work

08-30-2005 19:33:52

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Can't even use my name, 08-30-2005 19:13:36

Sure do. It isn't grown here except wild. I mow through some every now and then and it sure smells great. I live at 8500 Ft. 40 miles SW of Denver, CO and mow the meadows for grass hay. Finished up last Sunday.

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Mike in Ind

08-30-2005 19:47:11

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Fudd@work, 08-30-2005 19:33:52

My grandma grows balsm mint and makes a great tea with it. Iced tea is great when you're hot and sweaty from mowing the grass or what not but it's mint tea is even better. It has that extra coolness to it.

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Able

08-31-2005 04:27:32

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Mike in Ind, 08-30-2005 19:47:11

You think maybe grandma would be willing to share her recipe?

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Tim Shultz

08-31-2005 08:04:56

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Re: Got mint in your area? in reply to Able, 08-31-2005 04:27:32

got some big feild's by crumstown highway in IN...
by the way can't, boss went to farm progress show, I will ask him when he gets back.. sorry 'bout that.
Tim Shultz

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