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Baldwin. Baldwin makes arrangements with his “broker” in New York who comes down to pick up the ginseng, once Baldwin has accumulated as much as $2,000 worth. The broker’s visit is overdue. Baldwin has 200 pounds of ginseng roots on drying racks in a tin shed behind his service station in Sperryville.
“HE’S hooked up with someone overseas,” Baldwin said of his broker. “They gij-ind it up and put it in 100-pound bags here. Then they ship it overseas to package it, I think. The price jumped up from $55 a pound to $68 a pound just last Thursday,” Baldwin said. He talked to his broker since then.
Some of the ginseng Baldwin has drying he collected himself. He hunts for wild ginseng through the mountains and grows some in a patch. But much of the ginseng he’s drying now was brought to him by other ginseng hunters, like Burnam Atkins or the “Cave Brothers” from Madison. Baldwin has been paying $15 a pound for green ginseng. That’s when it hasn’t been pulled up long and the root is still fleshy. Once it dries, it gets brittle and will break with a snap. It also “lightens up” and weighs less, he said. But he will take it green or dry. The broker is only interested in dry “’seng.” That takes about three weeks, Baldwin said.
“It’s scattered wild all over these Blue Ridge Mountains,” Burnam Atkins said. “If you can find it, you can make good wages.”
“Not as many people are lookSee
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