Making Sure That the Plants Identified Are Ginseng By Digging Up a Plant, Tasting, and Examining the Root

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…

Wild American Ginseng Published in the Spring 2019 Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation by George Lindemann Toward the end of April 2018, the Chinese Government imposed a tariff  on imported wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). This little known wild root has somehow gotten into the middle of a brewing American/ Chinese trade war. I am…

Sam Inspects New Spring Growth from Transplanting

Ginseng for consumption for sale

George Lindemann Showing Wild Ginseng Locations to Dr. Gao and Research Team