Chaga and The Birch Tree

Quick look into chaga, or tinder fungus, and its host the birch tree.

[@michaelsparks3573]

Great information, Sir. Thank you 👍🏻

[@paulnett2539]

I try not to boil, steep is my preferred method for tea. When i harvest i try to leave 1/4 -1/3 of the chaga to help with regeneration. great to see snow on the ground at harvest! I'm currently working on a chaga tincture, fun to try the different ways to consume!

[@GatorLife57]

Great vid as always my brother ! GOD bless ! Thumbs up. .... .... ENJOY....THE SIMPLE LIFE

[@Rambooutfitters]

God bless brother.

[@xrystalskyes2838]

I literally just subscribed to your channel the other day because of what I learned about birch trees from your channel. Thanks for sharing

[@Rambooutfitters]

Awesome to hear. Thank you

[@comfusedpassanger3399]

I live in Norway so I find Chaga here. Love my chaga tea With some honey, milk.. Glad I found ur channel, thank you for making these intresting videos.

[@judichristopher4604]

This is a GREAT Video... Thank YOU for sharing this.

[@RathwulvenBushcraft]

Very well explained - especially the illustration of the consistency of chaga. Over here, I sometimes see folks chopping lumps/tumors from birches which - from the outside - could be confused with chaga and are then used to boil a practically useless wood-tea. Thanks for posting!

[@Revenant1431]

You make interesting easy to watch informative videos. Thanks.

[@Rambooutfitters]

+John Kriski Thanks my friend I appreciate that

[@timothylongmore7325]

I didn't realize fresh chaga would burn so well. I lit some dry chaga and I couldn't put it out! I forage for chaga and other medicine. People on these videos will tell you , "only take chaga from a live tree" (to drink). I've found conks on dead trees that were still fine to use. Some i picked were obviously not good for tea. Those ones are the best for tinder and I think they smell good and would probably work great to keep black flies and maybe skeeters away. Sometimes you'll find them on the ground. if they don't crumble in your hand , hang on to them. I slabbed some to make display boards for arrow heads and stuff. I don't find the tea bitter at all. Kind of bland if anything. Ya ain't supposed to boil either or the trolls will bitch. Cool video , hope you make more.

[@scotthall9525]

My question is ; you are the very first person I've seen that said to use the soft orange part to make your health tea from. I've watched maybe 10 videos on this subject and all the other 9 people said to use the hard black part in making tea a few people said the softer middle part you could grind and put into capsules and they all said the soft orange part was for making fire

[@stopit9280]

Great video! Please keep uploading!

[@Rambooutfitters]

Thank you and I promise they will keep coming!

[@stopit9280]

Rambooutfitters :D

[@truckfarm5137]

The black stuff. Outside stuff is what u want.

[@BerserkerGang2019]

Really cool. I just did a video on this. It's super hard to find here in Germany. I don't use it for tinder as we have an abundance of other fungi here that are great tinder. The tea is a true gift of the gods. Stay safe. Just subscribed;)

[@kennethtomer5553]

What's in the thumbnail? Looks different from what you have in cideo

[@Kuroi733]

Oooga Chaga Oooga Chaga Oooga Chaga

[@sharonx1840]

Thankyou very informative ps how long did it burn for before it was all spent? thanks shaz ;-)