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I’ve never heard of the show, but ginseng is a big deal. It sells for a lot, and when you harvest it it’s important that you actually leave the majority of the ginseng in the patch or the patch won’t grow more and will disappear.
People don’t care, however, and they pick the entire patch so that no new ginseng grows there, making it even more rare.
People I know who have ginseng on their farms usually aren’t interested in selling it, but it’s a very hush-hush thing. If word gets around you might have ginseng on your property, the wrong people Always find out and sneak onto your property to find it and steal it.
It’s serious. I’ve known people who’ve dealt with armed ginseng thieves on their land in SE Ohio.
I’ve talked about this before and been laughed at bc it sounds like “redneck business” but I don’t think having men with guns sneaking around your property to steal from you is funny. The idea of them getting startled when my friends’ kids or animals get too close is scary.
I also knew an ecologist who was doing research on Ginseng, and someone literally broke into their lab and stole their maps marking the research sites. It’s not easy to get into a lab. They worked hard and risked a lot. It was absolutely ridiculous.
People are already highly defensive of what they consider their “territory” when it’s not even their land. I’ve known guys who’ve had their tires slashed when they went to hunt grouse on public, federal land, because some other hunters think of that as “their spot.”
So get private property, trespassing, and money involved, and people get pretty scary.
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I’ve never heard of the show, but ginseng is a big deal. It sells for a lot, and when you harvest it it’s important that you actually leave the majority of the ginseng in the patch or the patch won’t grow more and will disappear.
People don’t care, however, and they pick the entire patch so that no new ginseng grows there, making it even more rare.
People I know who have ginseng on their farms usually aren’t interested in selling it, but it’s a very hush-hush thing. If word gets around you might have ginseng on your property, the wrong people Always find out and sneak onto your property to find it and steal it.
It’s serious. I’ve known people who’ve dealt with armed ginseng thieves on their land in SE Ohio.
I’ve talked about this before and been laughed at bc it sounds like “redneck business” but I don’t think having men with guns sneaking around your property to steal from you is funny. The idea of them getting startled when my friends’ kids or animals get too close is scary.
I also knew an ecologist who was doing research on Ginseng, and someone literally broke into their lab and stole their maps marking the research sites. It’s not easy to get into a lab. They worked hard and risked a lot. It was absolutely ridiculous.
People are already highly defensive of what they consider their “territory” when it’s not even their land. I’ve known guys who’ve had their tires slashed when they went to hunt grouse on public, federal land, because some other hunters think of that as “their spot.”
So get private property, trespassing, and money involved, and people get pretty scary.
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