Now if you want to get big bucks you need to hunt this stuff... August be the time to hunt it in Pa...
July 2010 Fur-Fish-Game Fur Market Report on page 52 highlighted that hunters or pickers will get $400.00 to $450.00 a pound this year..
I have a friend that hunts Seng...He goes to the top of the mountain...Also he said when you find what they call the SPICE bush...That is where SENG likes to grow... It does not like sunlight...So tall trees like th Tulip Poplar are also a good place to look.. I found some while hunting coyotes in the summer time: Here it is too...I found it where Tulip Poplar grow but it was not high in the mountains..
Just remember if your going to hunt SENG...there are laws like: Now I think...I Thais to have 5 shoots on it's roots before you can legally take it. Your suppose to plant the berries too if you take the plants roots...Use to be 3 legs on the roots were legal.. Now the root has to have 5 legs. So if you find one plant and it has one to 4 shoots on the root...You can not take it..You have to replant it and hope next year when you return it got the 5 shoot growth...
Here we are trying to get a few bucks to buy ammo from our fur..When you can be going on a vacation each year around the entire world if you only hunted SENG!!!!!!!!
Below the picture is a link that will tell you a bit more about SENG. In your back yard is a week called Virginia Creeper...IT looks like Seng but of course it's not.. Findthat in your yard so you kind of have an Idea of what Seng lloks like...
http://www.wikihow.com/Hunt-for-Wild-Ginseng