Even though George Albright has been digging "sang" in his native West Virginia with a homemade "sanging hoe" since he was 12 years old, he doesn't use ginseng himself. Ken Sherman Tom Carte's harvest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ginseng plant with berries in fall, Whitesville, W.Va. Lyntha Scott Eller/Library of Congress, CC BY-ND Across Appalachia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 15—A ban on collecting wild ginseng in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests will remain in place indefinitely until the ...

Digging for wild ginseng pays: It sells for thousands of dollars in overseas markets. But it is illegal to take ginseng from national parks, where authorities are working to thwart poachers. They come ...

Ginseng harvest season has arrived in the Commonwealth, but harvesters should beware as there are laws in place to protect the plant. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services ...

It's illegal to dig wild ginseng out of national park land. But it sells for thousands of dollars overseas, so poachers find it hard to resist. National Parks Look To Lock Out Wild Ginseng Diggers ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Ginseng hunting season is getting started, but the U.S. Forest Service said it would be paused in two national forests this year to preserve the wild ginseng population. In a release ...

A 93-year-old ginseng root found in the wild could be sold for hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars at an auction, agriculture officials in Vermont say. The age of the tan-colored, twisted herb ...

In more than three decades of combing the woods of Schuylkill County, Dennis “Pap” Knauss has yet to see a wild ginseng plant. “In all my years on the trail, I’ve never seen wild ginseng,” said Knauss ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Iris Gao keeps a ginseng root in her office. It’s fixed on black velvet with three other bleached-brown specimens, all of them twisty and otherworldly and ...

The legal season for harvesting wild ginseng in New York state is underway, running through Nov. 30 after a Sept. 1 start date. According to Jason Denham, who oversees ginseng harvesting for the ...