How to Harvest Chaga Correctly (Featuring Birch Polypore)

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Published 2020-09-07
Follow Garrett Kopp, founder of Birch Boys, Inc. along his journey foraging for wild Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) and the Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina) on private land within the Adirondack Mountains. In this video, Garrett demonstrates some important tips on sustainability.

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Chaga chunks: birchboys.com/products/chaga-chunks-1lb
Chaga tincture: birchboys.com/products/chaga-tincture

Listen to Garrett's podcast on ATBS: birchboys.com/blogs/podcast/powerful-polypore-mush…

All Comments (21)
  • @YOU.ARE.LOVE.
    I like how you planted new chaga on a different tree. Also, I enjoy the vibe.
  • My husband and I live in the Adirondacks also, thanks for showing this.
  • @lizz2040
    I have had Chaga tea many times but never found one until today on a walk! It's good size and I marked it on my phone map to harvest later when I have a knife 😀. Safe land to do so too 💚
  • Awesome video, been looking at information for a presentation and found this guy three separate times
  • @mcd5478
    Whoa. This video is so fabulous!
  • Just subscribed, cause you showed how to harvest chaga perfectly. Very good video. 🏆🤠👍
  • @KB-kl5ip
    Love to you from Ohio! Thank you for being awesome!!!!!
  • @Chris-dy5fy
    Chaga is very aggressive. I had bought a culture and it's very fast growing on petri dishes and sawdust. Though I've noticed it requires grain (sugars) in the sawdust, it will not grow out fully on pure sawdust unless u give it a very long time. But it's faster than most mushrooms at colonizing. I understand that it's more medicinal from birch, because of the birch triterpene. But it took about a month to colonize a block, and is building thick mycelium on top, I notice the mycelium just builds onto of itself. It's white though, but from what I understand about fungi found at chernobyl, melanin is used by certain fungi to protect against radiation and extreme environments. So I think it's environment is too mellow to produce melanin, upon exposure to sun and cold it should reach the extremes needed to produce melanin.
  • @HappyThrills
    Hey! Love to see someone promoting sustainable harvesting with Chaga. What's your opinion on harvesting in the different seasons? How do you think it affects potency ?