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.

There is good and bad news about ginseng collection and production in Pennsylvania, and likely much of Appalachia, according to a new study conducted by Penn State researchers. On the positive side, ...

Recent dry conditions have given ginseng farmers a reprieve from disease, and a break from a wet spring.

Many ginseng collectors plant seeds of the endangered medical herb in the Pennsylvanian forests where they collect it, but that could have both positive and negative impacts on the plant, according to ...

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 ...

MILLS RIVER — For generations, Appalachian residents have harvested ginseng roots as a source of extra income. Often, whole families would search the woods each fall for the distinctive three- or four ...

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Joe Heil has been farming ginseng in rural Central Wisconsin for 25 years. He is the owner of Heil Ginseng Farms, a fourth-generation family business. Producing up to 150,000 pounds of roots per year, ...

There is good and bad news about ginseng collection and production in Pennsylvania, and likely much of Appalachia, according to a new study. There is good and bad news about ginseng collection and ...