| How to farm and process Hamamelis on a large scale?

How to farm and process Hamamelis on a large scale?

lucius.graecus asked:


Looking for ballpark estimates on acreage, ideal growing conditions, needed equipment and facilities. Not looking for fine or thorough details- an outline format is preferred as is first-hand experience.

Please no links or wikipedia.
To be more specific, I am asking about a small to medium farm run by less than 10 people ideally where the only crop was Hamamelis virginiana. Processing would be into extracts and cleaning/drying the wood as for kindling. My concept is rather specific so I’ll consider an answer applying to similar needs for best answer.

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One Response to “How to farm and process Hamamelis on a large scale?”

  1. mckaytyler on April 26th, 2009 8:55 pm

    I’ll have to admit that I’m doing a little guessing here. I’ve never cultivated Hamamelis virginiana. They grow wild all over where I live. Some people do raise them as an ornamental and they seem fairly easy to grow. I don’t think you would have too big a problem establishing a fairly large plantation of witch hazel. I can’t help you with your processing, but the Hamamelis will grow as a shrub unless you keep it pruned and keep the suckers cut back. This might give you enough material for processing until they get to be small trees.