Garrett, nice to see you out there and well-prepared for the weather, love the hat and pants! I am enjoying the chaga chunks in slow cooker as you taught us and add some turkey tail (your staff sent out) in to other hot beverages as well....Stay warm, my friend!
Great video! I love the chaga tea I bought from you before Christmas. It's just so good. Love knowing is comes from such a beautiful forest. Make more video's, please!
Lynne, I'm glad you brought this up. I've written extensively on this subject in my blog: birchboys.com/blogs/about-our-chaga/is-wild-chaga-harvesting-sustainable (Read section numbered 4 for the short answer) but if you are curious about my thoughts on Chaga sustainability, you may want to read the entire page.
Plan your searching based on the history of the land and whether or not the trees have been logged recently or left alone. And of course you want to look for birch trees - but also focus along creeks / rivers / swamps and sources of steady moisture / fog / humidity to fuel the Chaga growth. All fungi crave humidity. 🙂
Your right every piece has the same spider webs now I want to find out what kind like the vidio it's been a great year for chaga in maine I didn't have the leave my property its extremely abundant in my area happy hunting
some russians say that chaga does not kill the tree, in fact it even heals it... the tree is usually quite old and dies of old age. Chaga which I found were old almost all of them. And it is not good to harvest so much of it, in your previous video you said that we should take ca 50 oercent of it, and now you took all, and even violently with an axe ... hmm
yoo i found my first chaga today been on the look out for a while now but no luck but today was my day :P got three big chunck the size of a bag of sugar :P no scales
WOW - I love this video! So exciting to see the harvesting in action. Thanks for sharing Garrett!
Thanks Kimberly 🙂
Garrett, nice to see you out there and well-prepared for the weather, love the hat and pants! I am enjoying the chaga chunks in slow cooker as you taught us and add some turkey tail (your staff sent out) in to other hot beverages as well....Stay warm, my friend!
Gonna be -18 tonight. I'll do my best!
@@GarrettKopp socks!
That observation about spiders is really interesting. Some spiders ride through the air too.
I was JUST reading about that!!
Wonderful video buddy. Thanks for bringing us along.
Thanks for tuning in. Glad you enjoyed it
Great video! I love the chaga tea I bought from you before Christmas. It's just so good. Love knowing is comes from such a beautiful forest. Make more video's, please!
I will!
I’ve watched many others collect this and they say that you should leave about half of the piece in the tree, is that not true?
Lynne, I'm glad you brought this up. I've written extensively on this subject in my blog: birchboys.com/blogs/about-our-chaga/is-wild-chaga-harvesting-sustainable
(Read section numbered 4 for the short answer) but if you are curious about my thoughts on Chaga sustainability, you may want to read the entire page.
Excellent video.., what are your best tips for finding chaga ?
Plan your searching based on the history of the land and whether or not the trees have been logged recently or left alone. And of course you want to look for birch trees - but also focus along creeks / rivers / swamps and sources of steady moisture / fog / humidity to fuel the Chaga growth. All fungi crave humidity. 🙂
Your right every piece has the same spider webs now I want to find out what kind like the vidio it's been a great year for chaga in maine I didn't have the leave my property its extremely abundant in my area happy hunting
Glad you notice this too!!!
Very nice chaga. Any chaga I’ve ever found is only about fist sized.
Merci from Québec' Canada
some russians say that chaga does not kill the tree, in fact it even heals it... the tree is usually quite old and dies of old age. Chaga which I found were old almost all of them. And it is not good to harvest so much of it, in your previous video you said that we should take ca 50 oercent of it, and now you took all, and even violently with an axe ... hmm
yoo i found my first chaga today been on the look out for a while now but no luck but today was my day :P got three big chunck the size of a bag of sugar :P no scales
nice
put a link to your website, for others
@@marks8052 Thanks
too big pieces you harvest, it is not good, you should leave ca 50 oer cent
Dude use a SAW please!