Growing up in the farm community of Marathon, Wisconsin, Craig Thompson and his siblings joined their mother to work as on ...

You can get ginseng as a dietary supplement in the form of tea, dried herbs, powder, or capsules. Ginseng is sometimes also added to other, everyday products, such as toothpastes, soaps ...

MARATHON, Wis. (WSAW) - Did you know that Marathon is recognized as the ginseng capital of the country? That’s right, and the Wisconsin Ginseng celebration took part of the Marathon Fun Days ...

Finding a wild ginseng plant, Wisconsin’s state herb, can be an exhilarating experience, even if it’s not taken. The plant is rare; nonexistent in many habitats, except mesic woods.

And as he looked around the pharmacy, there was ginseng everywhere - including from his home state, Wisconsin. This was the seed of Thompson's latest graphic memoir, Ginseng Roots. The book is a ...

brother and sister worked Wisconsin’s ginseng fields to supplement his father’s jobs as an apprentice plumber and a hardware store clerk. (For weeding and rock-picking, the kids each got $1 ...

Especially those in central Wisconsin. One of those businesses includes ginseng farmers who are being impacted by retaliatory tariffs from China. 98% of ginseng grown in the United States can be ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) — The Chinese New Year is China’s most important festival, and one Wisconsin crop has a major role in its celebration. The plant root ginseng is a major Wisconsin crop known ...