For a small fee, JustNiks Mycosilva will insert dowels into your trees and buy back the chaga when it’s harvestable. Each tree is catalogued with its GPS location, date and time of the inoculation.

Yellow and white, or paper birch, are also the preferred host to chaga. The compounds found in birch trees give chaga its medicinal properties, like betulin, betulinic acid and lupeol. This ...

Chaga mushrooms typically grow on birch trees but can also be found growing ... The second option is to use a small piece of the chaga mushroom like a piece of charcoal and throw your spark ...

I should add that professional landscape companies don’t mutilate trees this way, but there are many small-scale operators who do. If you’re unfamiliar with it, crape murder is the practice of ...

We went deep into the forest to find chaga — a wild mushroom that grows on birch trees, slowly feeding off them while offering powerful health benefits to humans. In this video, we show how to ...

Pruning a tree branch may seem like a small garden chore, but it’s serious business. “If you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t plan carefully, it can be dangerous not only for ...

Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) is a type of fungus that grows mainly on the bark of birch trees in cold climates, such as Northern Europe, Siberia, Russia, Korea, Northern Canada and Alaska.