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Article: A new dig.: Growers use ginseng market method to sell black cohosh
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- November 16, 2003
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Female Baby Boomers are all hitting menopause. Headlines tell them
that estrogen therapy could put them at risk for breast cancer, heart
attacks and strokes.
None of that seems to have much to do with William, a 63-year-old
retired post office worker who loves to tramp up and down his
family's 26 hillside acres in a Kanawha County hollow.
But William was able to earn more than $500 for spending a few
hours in his beloved woods this fall. That's because those menopausal
women are clamoring for a little green plant that grows wild and
abundant in the West Virginia hills: black cohosh.
"This time last year, I didn't even know what the plant looked
like," he said.
William wants his name and ...