Unlike many other states, Minnesota has never required diggers of wild ginseng to buy a license. "Rooters," as they are sometimes called, enjoy the freedom. Like trophy deer hunters and secretive ...

This provided photo shows a 93-year-old American ginseng root, according to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. Anson Tebbetts Vermont Agency of Agriculture A 93-year-old ginseng root found in the wild ...

November marks the tail end of “’sang” season, but relics of the harvest time remain: hand-scrawled signs declaring “Will Buy Ginseng – No License Needed” and reports of recent poaching on both ...

LAVALE, Md. — Mark MacDonald and his dad have dug a lot of ginseng in their time, but nothing could have prepared them for the find they made one Sunday afternoon earlier this month while exploring a ...

Officials of the national forests that sprawl across North Carolina’s mountains are preparing lotteries to see who will get to harvest green gold – wild ginseng – late this summer. The dried roots of ...

MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. — Two Asian buyers with screwdrivers pop lids off brown barrels brimming with valuable ginseng roots, and grower Joe Courchaine names his price: $44 a pound. One buyer frowns and ...

It’s an endangered herb, routinely yanked from Pennsylvania’s forest floors due to a soaring demand in Asia, but the impact of ginseng production on the plant’s wild populations has been something of ...

Three Iowans were charged with theft for harvesting ginseng roots on state-managed land along the Des Moines River valley over the Labor Day Weekend.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said it is ...

The pandemic's crushing effect on international travel has grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root widely used in Asia to treat everything from the common cold to impotency, at a time when health ...

Officials with the West Virginia Division of Forestry say ginseng harvesters need to be aware of new federal and state laws that took effect Sept. 1. “I’m still getting calls about the changes,” said ...