Wild Ginseng Root
Bob Beyfuss holding a fully wild root dug from ginseng bowl area above Coal Creek.
Bob Beyfuss holding a fully wild root dug from ginseng bowl area above Coal Creek.
Making sure that the plants identified are Ginseng by digging up a plant, tasting, and examining the root.
September 1 is the beginning of ginseng season on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. Towards the end of the summer the plant has produced seeds which fall of the stem, and some, two years latter become new ginseng plants. Wild American Ginseng is a threatened species, and is protected by the United Nations CITES treaty. Because of…
Maidenhead Ferns grow in similar environments to ginseng, and they have the coolest black stems.
Dr. Iris Gao has moved from mainland China to Middle State Tennessee University in order to study Wild American ginseng. It just so happens that we have a lot of the root at Coal Creek farm in Eastern Tennessee. Dr. Gao visited recently with her colleague Dr. Elliot Altman (aka the hemp doctor) and Andrea Bishop, who…
Bob Beyfuss dug up this two prong to prove how old it was, and then replanted it.