Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age.
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Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.