On Thursday, Sept. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m., I will be teaching a ginseng growing class at the Agroforestry Resource Center of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene/Columbia County on state Route 23 in ...

Jessica B. Turner is a doctoral candidate at West Virginia University. She studies ginseng conservation, specifically in regards to surface mining. Jessica is a Phipps Conservatory Botany in Action ...

The harvest season for wild ginseng opened on Tuesday. American ginseng commerce is tightly regulated by the federal government, as it is listed on an appendix to a treaty called CITES. The CITES ...

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 story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Iris Gao keeps a ginseng root in her office. It’s fixed on black velvet with three other bleached-brown ...