May 16th 2024

5:30-7:30pm

Cook, MN - River Street Studios

Join herbalist Allison Austin for this in-depth class about all things Chaga!

Did you know, growing on our local birch trees is one of the most potent medicinal mushrooms in the world? Chaga has been highly studied for its incredibly high nutrient content, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, it’s positive effects on cells, ability to increase the body’s defense against stress, and a multitude of other benefits.

In this class, we will learn how to identify, harvest, process, store, and utilize chaga mushroom.

This class will be lecture and hands-on. Students will have the chance to taste chaga extracts, and we will be serving a chaga tea during class. We will pass around a variety of different chaga pieces and hands-on examples of chaga and birch to feel and study for identification. Each student will make their own tincture in class to take home with them to care for, harvest, and use. Students will also take home a chaga manual to that includes everything we go over in class- how to identify, harvest, dry, and prepare chaga, and numerous creative chaga recipes.