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 ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Ginseng hunting season is getting started, but the U.S. Forest Service said it would be paused in two national forests this year to preserve the wild ginseng population. In a release ...

The digging season for wild ginseng began Sept. 1, but before heading to the woods, diggers need to be aware of several things. Since wild American ginseng is a threatened species in Virginia, diggers ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Ginseng harvest season in Virginia begins on Sept. 1. For those interested in collecting this valued plant, there’s several regulations to be aware of — because violating them ...

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," ...

In the late 1800s, rural Appalachians and indigenous people built a multimillion dollar industry out of folk botany, shared forest stewardship and business cunning. Across the region, independent ...

ASHEVILLE - Picking ginseng in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests is still off limits this year. The U.S. Forest Service said that its pause on issuing permits to harvest American ginseng on ...

RUSHFORD — The telltale sound of a shovel scrape drew Department of Natural Resources conservation agent Mitch Boyum up a hill and deeper into the southeastern Minnesota forest. A sloped tract of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Editor’s note: The fascinating history of American ginseng and the many people involved in its current cultivation, harvest, trade, medicinal use, ...

How can closely related plant species occur on two continents, thousands of miles apart? This distribution pattern is known as disjunction, and it’s a particular area of interest for Dr. Jun Wen, an ...