Greetings friends, this is Survival Dog. Today I'm going to harvest my ginger plants. Here we have my ginger growing in this pod here. As you can see, it has been bitten by the freezes that we've had last couple days. Here we are in mid-November in zone 6, Missouri Ozarks. We've already had a couple of nights where temperatures drop below freeze and only down to about 31, 30 area. So it killed my ginger plants. These plants, the ginger is supposed to mature in about 10 months. It's been approximately 10 months since I planted these plants. I think it's time to harvest them. If you notice I have chicken wire here. If I didn't have chicken wire or something, the plastic bird wire will work. If I didn't have the protection here, then I wouldn't have any ginger. When I first planted these, the first day the squirrels were digging up my ginger roots. By now, I see them, I look out the one to watch them, try to get in here from time to time. I have no doubt that they would have already dug all this up. So this has protected my ginger. It probably would have been easier just to go ahead and cut the ginger before I did this. But I wanted to try and see what happened if I did this. Of course, with ginger is the root that we are using. This is what I started with with ginger root. This is simply the fresh ginger root you buy at the grocery store. Now, I bought this at Whole Foods Market. I was careful to buy organic ginger. I just took the ginger that I bought at the grocery store. I cut little pieces. If you notice here is a little sheet coming out. So what I would do here is I would just cut this right across here. That's what I would plant. If you notice ginger, a little bit like potatoes, and it has these areas, similar to the eyes of a potato. So when I am cutting it up, I try to cut small pieces. It will have something on it that looks like an eye. And that's what I started with. It was about 10 months ago. So let's take a look and see what we got here. Of course, this is a root. I don't want to damage the root. So I want to be careful being into that to bring up the root. Okay, here's what I have here. All right, these are brand new sheets right here. These are small. I think what I'll do is I'll actually put these aside to plant back in the earth. All right, here's my ginger root. It's kind of small, but much larger. I just had a very, very small piece that I had planted here. So it has grown. It looks like it could do a little bit more growing. You need to plant ginger to give it enough time to have a full 10 months in the ground. Let me see if I can find bigger piece here. Okay, now that's what I'm talking about there. That's a nice piece of ginger here. Ginger root is a great culinary herb. It has many uses. One notable use is for nausea, stomach problems. Herbalists consider ginger a warm herb, it's a heating herb. And it helps the digestion. Your digestive process is in Chinese herbal medicine, the digestion is considered like a furnace, where you're burning your food, so to speak, for energy. So warming herbs help the fire of digestion. People commonly use ginger root for things like nausea. You can just cut a small piece, about a little half inch piece off of ginger, and put it in a cup or boiling water over it, let it steep for about 10 minutes, and you have a nice ginger tea, which is very pleasant. And it's good for the digestion, and it's also good for them. Nalcia is good for motion sickness, very commonly used for motion sickness. Ginger is also preservative herb. You can take ginger, and you can dry it, powder it, use it fresh, and use it when you're preserving meats. Say if you're making a jerky or you're drying meat to preserve it, smoking meat. A lot of herbs you can use to help preserve the meat. Ginger is a nice herb to add to your spices that you use to preserve your meat. And medicinal uses, culinary uses, and it's just plain delicious. It's easy to grow. You too can grow your own ginger. It's by the ginger root from the store. Cut off pieces, plant them in the soil, protect them from the squirrels, and remember it's going to take 10 months for the ginger plant to mature. So you have to give it time. This shows you what I planted macro here. See, this piece right here is the ginger that I cut, and planted in the soil. And from here, we got these right here. And this is very, very young immature plant. Right here is another one. This right here is a little piece of ginger that I planted. And it grew out from right here, and grew this plant from that one piece. This is survival doc. Reminding you, be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced. Thank you.