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Reporting New York Beyond – Baruch College

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/dollarsandsense/2017/10/16/from-flushing-to-shanghai-a-local-business-thrives-on-upscale-ginseng/ Article and photos by Samuel Nakashima It’s been 12 years since Marinda Lau took her entire $3,000 in savings and drove more than 1,000 miles to Wisconsin from New York to purchase her first barrel of ginseng. Now her son Carl Chen makes the trek to retrieve this valuable root, prized by Chinese people […]

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