Just looking for the first find...

Still a touch early here, but not too long! I'll be looking in WV in a couple weeks. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!

Now there is someone that knows what good is, down home in Va. we called them dry land fish, and they are just as much fun to hunt as Ginseng. I will be out looking for them soon.

Man that's one thing I miss about the mid-west, finding morel's in the spring. I keep my eyes out for them hear in Mass. but never heard of anyone finding any here. Man are they good eatin'.

what are they

I didn't get out to look yet. In fact this is my first year but I have been on another site that reports finds and someone found 2 small blacks in reading Pa, just north of me so I should get out soon. I wish there was someone around my area with some experience so I could figure out what to do. I'm worried I'll be out hunting just wasting my time. I don't even know any areas around lancaster to start looking.

No morels yet.

Did somebody say Ginseng??? I thought I was the only 'seng hunter left around these parts.

I always wanted wanted to go sang huntin. Someday.

Hey quicksilver that was me, When I was a kid down in southwest Va. Ginseng was the way I got my only money, at the time it sold for $16.00 a pound at that time that was a lot of money for a kid. It now sells for over $600.00 per pound, I wonder how many kids hunt it now?
Hunting it is like hunting buck your are always looking for the biggest root, or the 4 or 5 prong, I am sure you know what I am talking about.

where in the heck do you find ginseng?

It's so picked out around my area that I feel bad taking it anymore - I did buy some seeds online and started a couple dozen stalks just to watch. I guess you could say they're my "pet plants."

I have a few wild transplants planted in my woods too, just to see how it competes with the commercial stuff.

Man, there's no prettier sight than a hefty four pronger in the woods.