To say I’ve been harvesting Chaga mushrooms for a long time is an understatement. I have been an avid wild foods forager (you have no choice when trying to feed a family of 15 in those days) since 1960, a mushroom hunter since 1987, and a professional hunter and buying agent for larger mushroom companies […]
WHAT ARE FIDDLEHEADS? All ferns can be called Fiddleheads, but only the Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is considered to be an edible delicacy vegetable. They are perennial (and pop up along with Dandelion Greens every Spring), grow fast and are harvested before the fronds have opened to their full height. They’ve a unique earthy flavor […]
We don’t just harvest wild Canadian Chaga, we have been drinking Chaga Tea every day for our own health since 2006! It was In 1999, while we were buying Chanterelle mushrooms for a larger mushroom company out of Richmond, B.C. that I heard of Chaga from a Russian Biology exchange student in the Queen Charlotte […]
http://www.christopherhobbs.com/webdocs/presentations/Medicinal-Mushrooms-2014.pdf https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00680667?term=Breast+Cancer+%26+Turkey+Tail+mushrooms&rank=1 http://bastyr.edu/news/general-news/2012/11/fda-approves-bastyr-turkey-tail-trial-cancer-patients https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3369477/ Now that you have done some of your own research, let me share with you some of my thoughts and conclusions on the subject while doing my own research since seeing and sharing the news about the FDA funding the research back in 2008 & 2012 to Bastre University for which […]