{"id":28143,"date":"2025-05-21T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28143"},"modified":"2025-05-21T00:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:26:50","slug":"virginia-farmers-are-reviving-a-tradition-of-harvesting-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28143","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Farmers Are Reviving a Tradition of Harvesting Herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The forest behind Ryan Huish\u2019s home doesn\u2019t look like a traditional farm, but beneath the bright green canopy in southwest Virginia, he\u2019s nurturing a thriving garden of medicinal herbs.<\/p>\n

On a warm afternoon in April, Dr. Huish, a biology professor at the University of Virginia\u2019s College at Wise, led a troop of students along a footpath that wove through part of his family\u2019s 60-acre property near Duffield. He encouraged students to pick edible plants like ramps (hints of garlic, they reported), pluck the leaves of trout lilies (sort of like kiwi) and dig up roots like Appalachian wasabi (yes, spicy).<\/p>\n

For centuries, these forest plants have been a part of Appalachian cultural heritage, used by local people for food, traditional medicine and extra income. But the market has long been poorly regulated, which has led to low prices and overharvesting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe trade of forest botanicals has been going on for the past 300 years in the Appalachian Mountains,\u201d said Katie Commender, director of the agroforestry program at a local nonprofit organization called the Appalachian Harvest Herb Hub. \u201cWhen we talk to ginseng dealers and root buyers, a lot of the concern we hear is that tradition is dying out and not necessarily being passed on to the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The forest behind Ryan Huish\u2019s home doesn\u2019t look like a traditional farm, but beneath the bright green canopy in southwest Virginia, he\u2019s nurturing a thriving garden of medicinal herbs.On a warm afternoon in April, Dr. Huish, a biology professor at the University of Virginia\u2019s College at Wise, led a troop of students along a footpath that wove through part of his family\u2019s 60-acre property near Duffield. He encouraged students to pick edible plants like ramps (hints of garlic, they reported), pluck the leaves of trout lilies (sort of like kiwi) and dig up roots like Appalachian wasabi (yes, spicy).For centuries, these forest plants have been a part of Appalachian cultural heritage, used by local people for food, traditional medicine and extra income. But the market has long been poorly regulated, which has led to low prices and overharvesting.50 States, 50 Fixes is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. More to come this year.\u201cThe trade of forest botanicals has been going on for the past 300 years in the Appalachian Mountains,\u201d said Katie Commender, director of the agroforestry program at a local nonprofit organization called the Appalachian Harvest Herb Hub. \u201cWhen we talk to ginseng dealers and root buyers, a lot of the concern we hear is that tradition is dying out and not necessarily being passed on to the next generation.\u201dTell Us About Solutions Where You Live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28145,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28146,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions\/28146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}