This provided photo shows a 93-year-old American ginseng root, according to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. Anson Tebbetts Vermont Agency of Agriculture A 93-year-old ginseng root found in the wild ...
Digging for wild ginseng pays: It sells for thousands of dollars in overseas markets. But it is illegal to take ginseng from national parks, where authorities are working to thwart poachers. They come ...
Sep. 17—In more than three decades of combing the woods of Schuylkill County, Dennis "Pap" Knauss has yet to see a wild ginseng plant. "In all my years on the trail, I've never seen wild ginseng," ...
The legal season for harvesting wild ginseng in New York state is underway, running through Nov. 30 after a Sept. 1 start date. According to Jason Denham, who oversees ginseng harvesting for the ...
Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House) That Midwestern soil is, ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Harvesting season for the medicinal Virginia plant, wild American ginseng, has begun, and with the season comes specific rules and regulations surrounding the collection of the ...
Across Appalachia, September marks the start of ginseng season, when thousands of people roam the hills searching for hard-to-reach patches of this highly prized plant. Many people know ginseng as an ...
VIRGINIA (WFXR) – Ginseng season is upon us. Starting Monday, September 1, foragers can go out hunting for the plant tuber, which is native to Virginia and credited with various tonic and medicinal ...
There's a different type of season in Indiana that began Sept. 1 and runs through the end of the year. Participants don't have to carry a firearm, muzzleloader or bow and arrow; instead, all that's ...
EAST LIVERPOOL – As a dealer of ginseng, Mitchell McCullough considers himself part of an American tradition going back to Daniel Boone. He’s been involved in the ginseng trade since the age of 18, ...
“My mom’s up in heaven saying, ‘This is a bad idea, getting into this truck with this man.’” This thought crossed Randi Pokladnik’s mind as she climbed into a “rickety-rackety pickup” with a stranger.
In more than three decades of combing the woods of Schuylkill County, Dennis “Pap” Knauss has yet to see a wild ginseng plant. “In all my years on the trail, I’ve never seen wild ginseng,” said Knauss ...