To meet global demand, forest farmers in the northeastern United States are cultivating American ginseng using seeds sourced from large, artificial-shade farms in the Midwest and Canada, a practice that is unintentionally altering the genetic makeup of naturally occurring, "wild" #ginseng populations.
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