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.

The Southern Appalachian School for Growing Medicinal Plants will host a ginseng and goldenseal workshop at Eagle Feather Organic Farm in Marshall on Sunday, April 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. The workshop ...

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 ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Ginseng can take up to five years to grow, which makes the crop more vulnerable to harsh temperatures than other plants. According to CEO and Founder of Marathon Ginseng Gardens, ...

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, ...

A ginseng farm in Quảng Nam Province is aiming for the herb to go global while bringing jobs to the local ethnic communities. PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE: Nguyễn Hữu Quý Khang (right) introduces ginseng ...

After breaking ground on a $10 billion manufacturing complex in Mount Pleasant and announcing a new innovation center in Green Bay, Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou made a couple of other, ...

Liu Zhigang, a villager in Sihai village, Mengjiang township in Jingyu county, Northeast China's Jilin province, explains ginseng farming to journalists on July 26. A delegation of journalists visited ...

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, ...