Paul Michael Combs, a 39-year-old harvester who has picked wild herbs since he was a child, tossed small piles of Solomon’s seal roots, used in traditional medicine, into a modified cement mixer.

Sep. 16—American ginseng is a unique herb native to the eastern United States, known for its man-shaped roots and medicinal properties. West Virginia ginseng harvest season started the first of ...

Red Root & Co. is opening the Red Root & Co. Herb House in Harrisonburg, ... The store will open on Friday, October 25, at 919 Virginia Avenue, Harrisonburg, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Virginia seeks to root out once-desirable pear trees. The once-popular Callery pear is blooming in suburbs across Virginia and throughout much of the eastern and midwestern U.S.

HAGERSTOWN — There’s gold in Jim and Gladys Fazenbaker’s back yard. On the rocky, wooded slope behind their house near here grows a tiny patch of a nondescript plant, the roots of which ...