Chaga is a parasitic fungus that grows slowly on birch trees, drawing nutrients directly from living wood. Its unusual growth strategy allows it to develop a dense structure filled with biologically ...

It grows on birch trees, but can also be found on beech and hornbeam, part of the birch family. According to Aaron Bergdahl, a forest pathologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation ...

All over the world, people swear by the nutritional benefits of chaga, a mushroom that has become popular in teas and supplements. The United States mostly imports the product, but one Maine couple is ...

Garrett Kopp learned to harvest wild chaga alongside his grandmother in the Adirondack Mountains of New York when he was a teen. In 2015, at 16 years old, his first stop after getting his driver’s ...

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The idea of drinking mushroom tea might not initially sound appealing, but chaga has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years.

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