Jim Hamilton, Watauga County Extension Director, is part of a effort to teach people how to cultivate ginseng. Ginseng is most often grown for it’s medicinal properties contained in both it’s root as well as leaves and exported.
Learn what to look for when planting this valuable but endangered plant including shade density and companion plants that indicate locations where Ginseng should thrive well.

Come away with your own pre-stratified seed as well as Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and Other Woodland Medicinals by W. Scott Persons and Jeanine Davis, a truly practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals.