Maidenhead Ferns
Maidenhead Ferns grow in similar environments to ginseng, and they have the coolest black stems.
Maidenhead Ferns grow in similar environments to ginseng, and they have the coolest black stems.
Making sure that the plants identified are Ginseng by digging up a plant, tasting, and examining the root.
Bob Beyfuss holding a fully wild root dug from ginseng bowl area above Coal Creek.
Bob Beyfuss dug up this two prong to prove how old it was, and then replanted it.
This month National Geographic has a feature on ginseng emphasizing violence and crime. While theft is an important challenge, the plant faces many other challenges as well. I have written a “top twenty” list explaining 20 of my favorite ginseng factoids. Please read my story on medium here.
Sam’s First Ginseng Experience at the Farm
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…