Project Overview
Echinacea Field Trials
Commodities
- Additional Plants: herbs
Practices
- Production Systems: general crop production
Proposal summary:
Angela Baker, will determine optimum organic growing conditions for wild Echinacea and Echinacea purpurea in the Northeast. Her long-term goal is to cultivate and breed superior, non-hybridized cultivators of the medicinal herb that would provide Northeast growers with a high-value, alternative crop.