Sam’s First Ginseng Experience at the Farm
Sam’s first Ginseng experience on the farm.
Sam’s first Ginseng experience on the farm.
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 Lindemann marking Wild Ginseng with flags.
A new approach to cultivating and growing ginseng could expand opportunities for farmers and landowners while discouraging poachers. The goal is to cultivate and grow new plants in Appalachian forest. Doing so can create additional value—Wild American Ginseng being a valuable botanical and an endangered plant. It makes sense to take advantage of Appalachian agriculture…
Bob Beyfuss dug up this two prong to prove how old it was, and then replanted it.
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.