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.
Sam Inspects New Spring Growth from Transplanting
Ginseng has quite the reputation. Did you know that Rasputin used ginseng to treat the hemophilia of the last Czar of Russia’s son? Or that ginseng’s scientific name Panax means all-healing in Greek? Now researchers are looking at ginseng to treat COPD and boost cancer-treatment drugs. Wisconsin farmers who cultivate the plant are hopeful that…
Large four-prong Ginseng plant with green berries.
A Young Three Prong Shoots Up from Previous Plantings
Blue Cohosh growing within a ginseng patch.
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…