Mr. Nguyen Manh Tuan has been with the Tak Ngo ginseng garden in Tra Linh Commune (Nam Tra My District) in Quang Nam Province for seven years. He has spent more time in the garden than with his family ...

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 ...

Explore a few exciting discoveries by museum researchers that you may have missed over the past few months Erin Wunderlich A pair of humpback whales feed in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine ...

For the last 20 years, Kon Tum and Quang Nam provinces have invested millions of US dollars to maintain Ngoc Linh ginseng genetic resource, but they have developed only 5-7 hectares. Meanwhile, a ...

Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community. By Sam Thielman When you purchase an ...

In one of television’s more bizarre recent offerings, the History Channel show “Appalachian Outlaws” follows a band of West Virginians as they hunt rugged forests for American ginseng, a medicinal ...

Even though George Albright has been digging "sang" in his native West Virginia with a homemade "sanging hoe" since he was 12 years old, he doesn't use ginseng himself. Ken Sherman Tom Carte's harvest ...

Possible benefits of ginseng range from improving thinking to treating erectile dysfunction and lowering blood sugar. It may also help reduce inflammation. Ginseng refers to 11 different varieties of ...

Ginseng ficus is a tropical plant native to Southeast Asia and is a member of the Moraceae or mulberry family. It grows best in acidic to neutral soil with higher humidity and full sun from a nearby ...