2023 Ginseng Harvest Season Opens

West Virginia’s ginseng 2023 harvest season is now open and will continue through Wednesday, Nov, 30.
Observing the legal season and regulations helps preserve Appalachia’s threatened and endangered wild ginseng, said a spokesman for the Division of Forestry.
Harvesting pulls up the ginseng root, ending the plant’s ability to replace itself with new generations. To help the herb’s seeds grow, the hunter must, by law, plant them at the site where the root was taken.