I can't believe I was absolutely captivated by this video. Amazing how it takes so long to grow and how carefully it must be harvested and replanted. Sure hope we can take care of this plant in the wild and not totally destroy it for the sake of the almighty dollar.

We had no idea how expensive ginseng was becoming. Your videos give you information where others do not. We appreciate your knowledge. Thank you.

This mans demeanor exudes wisdom and content. I would love to shadow him or enter an apprentice ship.

I wish we all could live 200-300 years, it seems like there is just not enough time to grow all the plants we want and get really healthy 😊

I always Listen and learn from an old Man!

What a wealth of information!!! Thank you

I am so grateful for being able to receive some of your knowledge! Thank you so much!

Great video with lots of great education. Thank you

i've learned so much with your videos ,please keep it up.

Great advice on replanting. Thanks!

My new favourite channel. Love listening to you share your knowledge about these plants & herbs.

Thanks for sharing all your knowledge I love learning all this stuff 😊💕

I love this, so easy to continue it growing with this knowledge for future generations.

great video... and wonderful harvesting and preserving for the next generation.

i wish i had all this guys Herbal knowledge! thank you for all your free wisdom.

Excellent channel, great info

Best video yet.

Thanks for sharing 🙏

A true plant Mage! Absolutely in love with his everything! I wish I could go and be an apprentice with him... Too bad I live so far. Amazing knowledge. I am truly awestruck by him! Thank you!

I planted half pound last year... The seeds where already stratified so fingers crossed I'll have some of my own for years to come!!

Thank you.

My grandfather cultivated ginseng. I’ve carried on his love for the plant. I don’t sell it either. I use it myself.

Learned a lot 😍 thank you 💚😊

Hi Joe, You are an amazing library. I can't wait to go meet you in person. Much love and Light and Thank you for giving lots of love to Gaia. She loves your feet tickling her and planting her, helping her flourish. She loves us all so much. We are not here to work for corporations, we are here to work with Mother Gaia, for Mother Gaia, on Mother Gaia, observe her way and learn to live closely to her. I tell my students this all the time: "We exist because Mother Gaia enables us to exist and to live on her", I tell my students to never forget that. Sending you love and light, Donna F.

that soil looks amazing

This gentleman knows a lot and I can't believe he lives right up the road from me

I like to pop the seeds in my mouth to clean the pulp. One time i took a large cluster all at once and it was quite a rush of medicine! Kind of tingly. Can't wait to go back there. It was two years ago i first found the patch and started replanting. Last season I brought some other seed with me as well and planted some of them too. It's a rush finding them. Great video , liked and subbed

Wow! Great discovery this channel! :)

Taking care of the land. Beautiful.

Good video. Would be worried if I thought people would try hunting it. They wont. Most have had the wild bred out of them, scared of the woods. Domesticated.

I like Joe.

I’ve learned neck can be replanted! It’s amazing news! I am gonna replant it after getting ginseng. Thanks a lot!

This man is a wealth of knowledge without overpaying for some worthless piece of paper from some woke college

I am a new subscriber and I love the information. I was happy to see the top replanted, but saddened and then angered by the government definition of "protecting" anything -- except the bottom line. WHY is everything bass-ackwards ?!?! Am I in " Bizarro World" ??? I would love to find a root for my own use for several chronic illnesses. I gather herbs for teas, and have a good variety. I live on 20 acres of mature mixed woods, but am not sure where to look or exactly what growing conditions they prefer. Also, what would they look like at this time of year? (May 20) Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 💕✝ Much Love and Many Blessings🌿🌼

Your wisdom was well received.

Incredible human being

thanks...

He is old but sharp as a tack. Maybe he takes a lot of ginseng lol.

way cool thank you

*Canadian Ginseng. "American" Ginseng was first discovered in present-day Montreal(CANADA) in 1716 🙂

is there a way to grow your own ginseng? I want to grow this!!!!

It's been over 7 years, how's the plant doing?

when is best time to transplant

My dad used ro take me out hunting seng before I was old enough to walk the woods. He gathered and sold more back in the 70's - 80's than you could haul in a pick up truck. One time, we stumbled across A 1 acre patch that some1 had to have gardened many years back and died or I don't know but it was thick over grown. We ended up with garbage bags full of root. Today, we'd be millionaires 😯

OMG!!! That knife in the opening scene...people have been killed by just s screwdriver when they carry it like that and slip. And Ginseng grows on steep slopes...If he makes a habit of carrying his knife like that, he must have an uncanny sense of balance!

where in canada can you find ginseng?

Greetings from China ,I used to buy ginseng in Hong Kong from a brand called kaitai ,

the mini great sword hanging out his back pocket lmao

I know this is an old video BUT doesnt it need those two tubers(?) you cut off for its over winter energy storage? Seems a bit late to harvest and replant it.

well yo don't wonna rush diggin up the root/he's taken he's time like he should

Hold on. Wait a minute. The last part got to me. People always harvest it for the roots and it takes 7 years for it to get good. And it is illegal to save the plant. The berries in the other hand have some nutrient that the rest of the plant does not have and as the plant gets older you get more berries and harvesting the berry would not kill the plant. All of this means that the actual most valued thing on the plant is the berries. There can be a farm with them again

I wonder if it will grow in south Florida. We have no frost, though.

I guess there’s no way to harvest the tuber without killing the plant. Is there anything you can do to continue encouraging propagation ?

THE ONLY THING ENDANGERED ON THIS PLANET IS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.

why rip it out of the ground?

Hell ya 🤙🏻

i wander if this guy smokes the herb ?

Nice video! Good stewardship!

I am doing my part, I plant at least a pound of seed a year and have not dug one yet. I have a lot of shotgun shells full of rock salt, and a lot of empty shot gun shells, lol. Ginseng poachers are scum, my dogs chase them, and I have a lot of digging utensils they dropped.

We don't know very much factual information about who the Druids were or what they were like but I'm pretty sure Joe was one in some former lifetime.

Ginseng should be grown in a bioreactor to speed up growth time and an increase of beneficial compounds.

Wow

Yea. I need to grow some. In 7 years I'll be 79

I want to grow/sell this in washington. Any suggestions?

where do you sell it, who would buy it, or how can you sell it I guess I am asking...

very good mushrooms! like from Russia

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It want disappear. They said that for a long time.

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"sorta resents disturbance" 3:26

I already have 5 people here..!

5 yrs old

First thing I noticed is the way your carrying your knife in your back pocket!!! That's gonna leave a mark!!! And I've heard there's NO way to tell the age of a ginseng plant.. the neck only gives you a idea of its age.. I've found small 3prongs with huge roots and big 4prong with tiny roots.. always replant my small ones in same place.. along with the berries..I don't eat the coating tho I just squash the seed to open the cover... does the cover give ya energy or what? great video!! Always more to learn about mother nature!! Experience is the best teacher...

i have never saw it take so long to dig one bunch of ginseng.nor anyone work so hard to dig it.i have been digging it for over 35 years

Can you sell me some please

Hes wrong on transplanting and seeding. You can put the seeds in the freezer after they've dried for atleast 2 weeks and then plant them and they will come up. Ive been growing wild ginseng in the woods behind my house for the past 12 years.

Are then berries edible?

If its endangered why r u picking it?

He steped on one

Might be the most hunted plant in the world.

I wish you were my neighbor

wow 800 $ a pound!

way to go bearded wonder! better plant those seeds, not chew on them!

Cheers , Great content , but pardon me , from my own experience ingesting ginseng , it didn’t do anything for me , not that I could tell anything about , there are some energy concoctions that do have an energizing effect , not Red Bull or monster drinks , there’s some pure forms of caffeine that will wake you up .. in a hurry , but ginseng ? No ,

Its indagered its gonna dissapear,, one day. Like the chicapin. Its rare to see any more,,,,,

He is laughing at those digger who always count for max years in its neck, as he is cutting it off and replanting it back to the ground.

Guy walks on one trying to get to other

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