You just made me realize something so funny my parents experienced when I was in the 6th grade that I haven’t thought about since then but they must have thought I was such a crazy kid. Our class had a fungus identification day on a Monday. We were encouraged to get out and look for fungus of any type the day before, to collect it safely and bring it in to class. Well there was this huge bracket fungi that grew on a tree for years at our house and I told my dad I wanted to take the whole thing. It was huge. He cut the bark of the tree loose with a saw and piled the whole thing in a box. My mother was shocked when she saw what I was taking to school. The thing smelled too, like an acid smell. It was a deep red color. No idea what it was but I def had the best fungus. I don’t know how my parents tolerated me 😂😂😂
I encouraged nerdiness in my kids as I am a nerd too ,my kids were banned from taking a tarantula to school and I was banned from venomous snakes when I was a kid. I imagine your teachers were very impressed.
Wild mushrooms have always fascinated me, but also scare the bejebbies out of me. I'll stick to photography of wild mushrooms and just consume commercially sold mushrooms. Thanks for sharing your brave, brave (for me) foraging adventures with us.
Bless your heart girl ! Put the sugar in before it is chilled . 1/4 cup sugar to 1 qt of tea and you have "sweet tea" . I'm in Ga and am praying for rain so I can find some shroons. The Reishi here tend to be 20 ft. up trees , I think I should cultivate them.
2024 june 2 and the reishi season is on in northern NY. I've checked most of my easy spots and seeing good flushes. My first every spot is still giving after 7 years! I even picked a few several days ago. I've been using reishi dual extract that I make and can't believe how powerfull it is. I used to use a medication for sinus headaches 3 or 4 times a month and haven't needed it in months. I sleep like a baby and I'm regrowing hair on my bald head.
I was too. I began with the most easiest to identify. Chaga , artist conks etc. This is one such. Grows primarily on one tree , hemlock. I know other types grow on other trees but tsugae is almost always on hemlock and is very easy to identify. Closest look alike is also medicinal. The red-belted polypore.
We have golden reishi here in the deep southern us. We find them regularly around the property. I have made tea a few times, but it was so dang bitter, I couldn’t keep drinking it regularly. I probably could dilute it a bit. Great video, thanks!
Very cool. Yes, even though I made it quite dilute there was still a bit of bitterness. I would have to take the powder of reishi mushrooms in a gel cap if I had to have more of it!
I pulled the biggest and most I've ever run across during 45 years in Texas, off of a dying Hackberry tree which seemed unusual. I've pulled four 5 gallon buckets off the thing. It fruited like a frenzy for 3 years. I pulled one off of the last fruit that is 2 feet across!
You can find those everywhere in the higher elevations of my area. They can be very beautiful. Yes we drink sweet tea in Tennessee. It's sweetened iced tea. I brew my tea on the stove top, then add sugar, usually a cup and a half for a whole pitcher full, then add it to the pitcher full of ice. Delicious.
Great video I love the bitterness rieshi has …. Makes me more relaxed along with bitterness creates better health with the immune system fighting off free radicals .Puts me right to sleep for the night that’s when your natural immune response is at its lowest while in deep R.E.M. Sleep. ✌🏻
If you are using it for medicinal reasons for the tumors especially it is recommended to use it without sugar at all, maybe dry it & ground it in a cofee/spice grinder put it into capsules available online or in some vitamin stores. I use vegan caps. but you might also just tough it out & drink it in a simmered way like you did which is very good. Think it comes out more when simmered , even longer too. did you look up house Chinese medicine practitioner prepare it for the patient? I think this might be advisable. thank you for showing us this & especially that book. Would think it is a good book to get looking online or even put it up on your info area where available.
2022 has been a good year for reishi in northern NY. Not the best year ever but better than last. People shouldn't fear the reishi. It is the easiest to identify. No dangerous look-alikes. And relatively easy to find ( in it's season and habitat). Be warned everyone , you don't want to simmer this mushroom in your house. It reeks! I use it in a tincture and do the hot water extraction out doors. Granted it smells worse when simmering the alcohol soaked slices but is pretty strong without. I'm on track to harvesting 100 pounds this year alone. Dry weight.
@@TheWildYam that's what I think too. Last year we had a dry , cool spring. No reishi. At all. Year before hot and wet, I gave up after the second flush. I have photos of a cluster I harvested twice. I think I still have it actually.
@@timothylongmore7325 I just put mine out in single layer on a canvas or fold up table for the day in a good sunny spot. Took 2 days roughly and definitely brought in at night. Also cut first, I made that mistake. Good luck.
@@Weedeater58 Yeah , I sort them out and slice up the gnarly ones. I've used my bandsaw to slice an order one year. Saved the reishi "saw dust" for myself.
@@Weedeater58 Actually add the dust to mason jars of sliced in alcohol. May try to make concentrates and powder them for capsules though. I'm unsure of the eficacy of raw reishi powder. Hot water extract HWE seems to be the preferred method
You just made me realize something so funny my parents experienced when I was in the 6th grade that I haven’t thought about since then but they must have thought I was such a crazy kid. Our class had a fungus identification day on a Monday. We were encouraged to get out and look for fungus of any type the day before, to collect it safely and bring it in to class. Well there was this huge bracket fungi that grew on a tree for years at our house and I told my dad I wanted to take the whole thing. It was huge. He cut the bark of the tree loose with a saw and piled the whole thing in a box. My mother was shocked when she saw what I was taking to school. The thing smelled too, like an acid smell. It was a deep red color. No idea what it was but I def had the best fungus. I don’t know how my parents tolerated me 😂😂😂
As a parent, if my kid did that I would light five em and carry it to the classroom hahahha
@@rachel031404 😂😂😂
I encouraged nerdiness in my kids as I am a nerd too ,my kids were banned from taking a tarantula to school and I was banned from venomous snakes when I was a kid. I imagine your teachers were very impressed.
@@maxinemcclurd1288 I remember her having the same reaction as my mother. I mean, the thing was so huge my dad had to help me carry it in 😂😂😂
@@maxinemcclurd1288 ahh you should do videos Maxine
Wild mushrooms have always fascinated me, but also scare the bejebbies out of me. I'll stick to photography of wild mushrooms and just consume commercially sold mushrooms. Thanks for sharing your brave, brave (for me) foraging adventures with us.
You're welcome. I'm always happy to share my mushroom forays with you
Justin Barbour recommended your channel in his latest adventure, so now I'm a new subscriber. G'day from downunder 🇦🇺
Awesome! Thank you!
The ice tea looked very good. Also interesting that you used your pressure cooker. I would not have thought of that. Cheers.💕
yes, I have heard of a few doing it this way so I wanted to try it out.
Bless your heart girl ! Put the sugar in before it is chilled . 1/4 cup sugar to 1 qt of tea and you have "sweet tea" . I'm in Ga and am praying for rain so I can find some shroons. The Reishi here tend to be 20 ft. up trees , I think I should cultivate them.
Praying for rain for you too!! Thanks for your recipe
2024 june 2 and the reishi season is on in northern NY. I've checked most of my easy spots and seeing good flushes. My first every spot is still giving after 7 years! I even picked a few several days ago. I've been using reishi dual extract that I make and can't believe how powerfull it is. I used to use a medication for sinus headaches 3 or 4 times a month and haven't needed it in months. I sleep like a baby and I'm regrowing hair on my bald head.
That's a cool looking mushroom i haven't tried wild mushrooms yet bit uneasy about picking them. have a great week
I was too. I began with the most easiest to identify. Chaga , artist conks etc. This is one such. Grows primarily on one tree , hemlock. I know other types grow on other trees but tsugae is almost always on hemlock and is very easy to identify. Closest look alike is also medicinal. The red-belted polypore.
Awesome find! 👍😎🇨🇦🍄
Woe🏵🕺I'm Big on Green Wild Edibles , but not too knowledgeable with the mushrooms
Come along for my adventures. I'll show you lots of cool mushrooms!
Learn something new every day!! Thank you for sharing!!! 🍄🍄🍄🍄
No problem.
@@TheWildYam 😊👍
We have golden reishi here in the deep southern us. We find them regularly around the property. I have made tea a few times, but it was so dang bitter, I couldn’t keep drinking it regularly. I probably could dilute it a bit. Great video, thanks!
Very cool. Yes, even though I made it quite dilute there was still a bit of bitterness. I would have to take the powder of reishi mushrooms in a gel cap if I had to have more of it!
You just redefined a “little bit of sugar.” LOL
Ha ha. It was tart! I had to do something. LOL
Oh My, Looks So Refreshing ! Thanks Jen ! ATB T God Bless
It was Terry! Can't beat a good wild tea. Have a good weekend
I pulled the biggest and most I've ever run across during 45 years in Texas, off of a dying Hackberry tree which seemed unusual. I've pulled four 5 gallon buckets off the thing. It fruited like a frenzy for 3 years. I pulled one off of the last fruit that is 2 feet across!
Wow. Amazing!! Such a good year this year.
This was very interesting thank you Jen.👍👍
Glad you enjoyed!
Really cool video, thank you for sharing.
You're so welcome
Thank you so much for the information you share..
Mornin!👋😎👍🍄
Hey there!
You can find those everywhere in the higher elevations of my area. They can be very beautiful. Yes we drink sweet tea in Tennessee. It's sweetened iced tea. I brew my tea on the stove top, then add sugar, usually a cup and a half for a whole pitcher full, then add it to the pitcher full of ice. Delicious.
Very nice. Thanks for confirming!! I love sweet tea. I visited Nashville once. Loved it!
Great video I love the bitterness rieshi has …. Makes me more relaxed along with bitterness creates better health with the immune system fighting off free radicals .Puts me right to sleep for the night that’s when your natural immune response is at its lowest while in deep R.E.M. Sleep. ✌🏻
Right on! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Good going
There is. I thing better than southern sweet tea sweetened real food and the lemon. Yum.
Envíeme un unos a las Vegas,me encantan!!
Will do. I love las Vegas!
If you are using it for medicinal reasons for the tumors especially it is recommended to use it without sugar at all, maybe dry it & ground it in a cofee/spice grinder put it into capsules available online or in some vitamin stores. I use vegan caps. but you might also just tough it out & drink it in a simmered way like you did which is very good. Think it comes out more when simmered , even longer too. did you look up house Chinese medicine practitioner prepare it for the patient? I think this might be advisable. thank you for showing us this & especially that book. Would think it is a good book to get looking online or even put it up on your info area where available.
If for tumors add chaga. Alcohol or dual extract.
@@timothylongmore7325 yes, dual would have maximum benefit
I just make capsules with a combo powder of 10 different species including Reishi and I take 6 to 8 capsules per day.
Wow! Probably the best way to take reishi as it is so bitter
2022 has been a good year for reishi in northern NY. Not the best year ever but better than last. People shouldn't fear the reishi. It is the easiest to identify. No dangerous look-alikes. And relatively easy to find ( in it's season and habitat). Be warned everyone , you don't want to simmer this mushroom in your house. It reeks! I use it in a tincture and do the hot water extraction out doors. Granted it smells worse when simmering the alcohol soaked slices but is pretty strong without. I'm on track to harvesting 100 pounds this year alone. Dry weight.
Wonderful! It is a bumper year hear too. Probably to a warm early Spring with lots of humidity
@@TheWildYam that's what I think too. Last year we had a dry , cool spring. No reishi. At all. Year before hot and wet, I gave up after the second flush. I have photos of a cluster I harvested twice. I think I still have it actually.
Honey could be a healthier option to sugar.
Or maple syrup too!
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Why didn’t you grind them up into powder in a coffee grinder?
You can but not really necesary. They are spongy.
You could to put in a tea bag or gel capsule to ingest if you wish
Video how to cultivate ?
They're on i.g
We should refer to you as a medicine woman.
Try breaking the pieces into smaller pieces. Exposing more surface area.
Will try that .Thanks!
@@TheWildYam you're welcome! Thanks for the video it was informative, and well put together.
Lamentablemente está en inglés el video es muy intert
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Dry in sun if possible for extra vitamin D. So I've been told.
I've heard that to. That's how I do it. I'm drying 20 -30 pounds at a time though , lol.
@@timothylongmore7325 I just put mine out in single layer on a canvas or fold up table for the day in a good sunny spot. Took 2 days roughly and definitely brought in at night. Also cut first, I made that mistake. Good luck.
@@Weedeater58 Yeah , I sort them out and slice up the gnarly ones. I've used my bandsaw to slice an order one year. Saved the reishi "saw dust" for myself.
@@timothylongmore7325 very cool! Could use that dust in capsules, but you probably already did.
@@Weedeater58 Actually add the dust to mason jars of sliced in alcohol. May try to make concentrates and powder them for capsules though. I'm unsure of the eficacy of raw reishi powder. Hot water extract HWE seems to be the preferred method