PEI stays on top of the ginseng industry

摘要

Among Prince Edward Island's claims to fame are Confederation and Canada's birth, but it also holds claim to the first ginseng gardens in the Atlantic provinces. This fact was presented, as well as PEI's exact location on a map for those of us 'fromaway,' by Susan MacKinnon, vegetable and tobacco specialist, with the PEI Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry. With the decline of tobacco in PEI, research has shifted into the growing field of ginseng, she told listeners at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's ginseng production course in March.