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. Kristin Johannsen, a travel and environmental writer for nearly twenty years, is the coauthor of Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other publicationsToday an acre of ginseng can bring a farmer $100,000. Johannsen shows that, for just as many, ginseng holds an even more American dream—that of instant riches. For many, ginseng holds the promise of perfect health and miracle cures. Despite the root's persistent popularity, the difficulty of farming ginseng, the constant threat of poachers and the dwindling number of wild ginseng plants has rendered its future uncertain. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Ginseng is one of the most devilish plants to cultivate, taking up to a decade to be ready for market and growing in only the most specific conditions. Unfortunately, she lapses into long descriptions of ginseng farming that would bore all but the most devoted horticulturalist. Travel and environmental writer Johannsen (Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains) takes readers into America's ginseng fields and forests. Instead of focusing on the medicinal powers of ginseng to those who can afford it, Johannsen paints a picture of the poor in Appalachia who still rely on wild ginseng to provide some cash in lean times. All rights reserved. From PuShe contrasts this with the huge commercial growing fields of Marathon County, Wisconsin, where among potato fields and paper mills, ninety percent of the country's ginseng is produced. It has one of the longest germination periods of any known species, and only two environments in the world have offered the ideal growing conditions for wild ginseng. The first was the forests of northern China, which disappeared over a millennium ago, and the sole remaining habitat is the Appalachian Mountain region of eastern North America, an area now threatened by logging and mining. American Ginseng has a strange and perilous history. American ginseng has become perhaps the most treasured of all herbal medicines, promising good health and longevity to those who consume it. Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant unfolds ginseng's past and its future through the stories of seven people whose lives have become inextricably bound to it: a huckster, a field researcher, a farmer, a ginseng "missionary," a criminal investigator, a broker, and a cancer researcher. Each of these individuals brings a different perspective to the elusive rootand each is consumed by a different dream. Chinese legend says that- Title : Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant
- Author : Kristin Johannsen
- Rating : 4.76 (938 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-6-6
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 224 Pages
- Asin : 0813123844
- Language : English
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