Learn how to farm chaga and how to make a high quality extract.
Turkey Tail – Powerful Immune Booster
Turkey Tail is a medicinal mushroom that grows abundantly throughout the forests of Ontario and the world. It’s incredibly common and rather easy to identify. Like other medicinal mushrooms, it has polysaccharides, (mushroom sugars) called beta-glucans. Polysaccharide K (PSK) is it’s best known active compound. In Japan it has been studied as far back as…
Why Chaga Is Disappearing, (And what we can do about it)
When chaga infects a living birch tree, the tree tries to protect itself by creating a very dense layer of wood in order to compartmentalize the mushroom on the inside. When this happens the mushroom can consume everything on the inside of the tree but it can’t attack any of the new growth. So the…
Chaga Extract for the same price as Loose Tea? Unbelievable but TRUE!
This is chaga as it was always meant to be. Just add 1/2 gram of extract to 250ml of hot water and you have a cup of chaga tea, instantly! The most amazing part of all is that the cost for a cup of chaga made from our extract is about the same as the…
Chaga Chef
If you prepare chaga correctly it has a very mild flavour reminiscent of coffee, vanilla, and chocolate. Anyone who drinks chaga regularly will know this. What most people don’t know is that it acts as a powerful flavour enhancer for foods that have bitter notes as part of their profile, for example coffee, beer, wine…
What overharvesting looks like
Although it may have seemed like there was a lot of chaga out there back in 2012, the chaga that we were seeing on the trees represented our total chaga inventories for the next 20 years. By indiscriminately harvesting it we put ourselves out of work for many years. The notion that we can return…
Chaga Medicinal Benefits
For years the medical community has been enthusiastically encouraging people to increase their intake of antioxidants. To truly appreciate the impact that an infusian of antioxidants can have on your health and well being you need to try chaga. Chaga is one of the highest antioxidant foods ever discovered. More than this, it’s antioxidants are…
Chaga’s Age, Annual Growth Layers
Chaga produces annual growth layers. These can be difficult to identify but can be seen in some conks if they are carefully split down the middle. In this particular conk I was able to identify 15 growth layers (marked with black lines in the photo) suggesting this conk was over 15 years old. It weighed about…