Growing & Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals

from the preface:
When I realized that my old book, American Ginseng: GREEN GOLD, was rapidly becoming outdated and that a new book was needed, I thought that many of my potential readers would be interested in practical, detailed information and instruction on growing other valuable native woodland medicinal herbs, other species of green gold, as well as ginseng. I asked Dr. Jeanine Davis to be a co-author and cover the additional material. Dr. Davis and I have interacted professionally for many years. I grow American ginseng and a little goldenseal on wooded hillsides in western North Carolina at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. Dr. Davis is a professor at the North Carolina State University Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station about an hour's drive northeast of me, where she conducts research on a wide variety of native woodland botanicals. We often share information, and sometimes we find ourselves speaking at the same conferencesI on woodland ginseng production and she on the cultivation of goldenseal, ramps, and many other native herbs. Our approach to small-scale farming and our advice to prospective growers are similar and compatible.