Appalachia's Ginseng King
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Ginseng is a plant with a rich history and high demand in Asia, which brought buyers to Appalachia, home to an American version of this much desired root.
This week, Rod and Steve tell the story of a man who made his fortune gathering, processing and selling ginseng in the mountains of North Carolina 150 years ago.
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Great story!
Thank you!
I loved this upload! I learned a lot!
We’re glad you liked our story!
My great grandpa was the ginseng king of his mountain in Mars Hill. Thanks for the story!
My Grandaddy had an old-timey general store in S.W. VA. He traded groceries for gensing. The 'sang man came around periodically to buy it.
I remember as a kid in the 1950s watching him string the roots, hanging them upstairs to dry out.
Thanks
Awesome I love digging seng. Married to one of the actors 😔
I think this is the only story I've heard on this channel so far that didn't end up with somebody getting unalived. UA-cam frowns on the correct word for that.
We have plenty of videos that aren't about outlaws, feuds, and "unaliving." Check out our more recent stories about Ale 8 One, Dr. Pepper, aviation pioneer John Paul Riddle, the Hummingbird Car and the freedman's colony that was set up in western North Carolina after the Civil War, among many more in our back library.
Fantastic story. Thank you so much for sharing.
Our pleasure!
Another great video guys!!
Thanks!
Wonderful stories about our history.
I lived in Marshall NC, as well as Asheville NC.
We're glad you liked this week's story. Thanks for watching!
4000 lbs of dry ginseng today would be more like 6 million dollars at todays rate of 1500 per dry pound on the exporter rate not 750,000. Some would sell for more some would sell for less. The diggers dont get that much but the exporters do and more for select grades.
They mentioned Danial Boone digging seng and one season the Indians caught him and relieved him of his bags of ginseng. Boon predated the fella the highlighted in their broadcast. I was a ginseng digger and dealer in Ohio some 45 years ago.
use too go out each spring lookin for ginseng walk in the woods for a nice day all in southeast West Virginia
Just call him "Gensing Khan."
Sang kang.
More footage of ginseng and less of you two pontificating please. Too silly for serious subjects.
it seems to get harder to find every year here in east tennessee, a lot of people disrespecting the repopulation not replanting berries ,or digging smal lplants or everything they see for that matter