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, ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Broke and down on his luck, Billy Joe Hurley turned to the only way he knew how to make a living: poaching ginseng. But after his latest in a long string of arrests, federal ...

Sep. 17—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," ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Harvesting season for the medicinal Virginia plant, wild American ginseng, has begun, and with the season comes specific rules and regulations surrounding the collection of the ...

Ginseng buyers report buying about 1,000 pounds of Pennsylvania ginseng each year on reports they file with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. That would be equivalent ...

Emily Cataneo is a journalist and fiction writer whose work has been published in Slate, NPR, the Boston Globe, and Atlas Obscura, among other publications. This story originally featured on Undark.

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 ...

Across Appalachia, September marks the start of ginseng season, when thousands of people roam the hills searching for hard-to-reach patches of this highly prized plant. Many people know ginseng as an ...

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 ...