Large four-prong ginseng plant with new berries

Large Four-Prong Ginseng Plant with New Berries

Large four-prong Ginseng plant with new berries

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Forest Farming in Appalachian Woodlands Grant

ByTiffany Crockett

Ever since the kids and I found ginseng, we’ve been fascinated by it. Finding it, studying it, seeing shapes in the physical roots, and drinking it in tea. But we’re also worried about ginseng. For one thing, it gets stolen and too frequently the thieves don’t respect the “take” failing to plant the berries into…

Ginseng Season on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau

ByTiffany Crockett

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…

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Wild American Ginseng and the Chinese Doctor

ByTiffany Crockett

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…