I just started drinking wild reishi tea and it is truly amazing. Mushroom foraging is therapy in itself.

Your knowledge of mushrooms and plants blows my mind.

Adam, it would be awesome if you started putting links to the studies you reference in the description below.. I know of a few medical doctors who do that... I think it would take your channel to the next level! Keep up the good work!

I found my first Reishi mushroom today! So amazing, it made my day!

thanks for the post! I installed a hand railing from a birch tree under my beloved hemlock. Upon my return - and to my delight - I was gifted with hundreds of tiny babies growing. With immune system issues - I recognized the gift immediately! yay!

Also the fact you repeat the name both common and proper through out the video helps. A real teacher.

You are just BRILLIANT!!! I would LOVE to spend just a week with you and learn this stuff. I'm such a visual and hands on learner. Please keep the videos coming. I'm truly learning a lot. Thank you!

You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much for your videos. I could never remember everything but the more I watch the more it sinks in. Suddenly, when I am out on a hike and checking out a tree, mushroom or plant, I hear your voice! I know what I am looking at and how it used! You are awesome! Thank you again! Umm...reishi tea yum!

Hubby (a land surveyor) stumbled upon the motherlode of tsuga canadensis today (4 stockpots full!), just as I am about to start chemo for BC. Thanks, Adam, for imparting your wisdom and for giving us the courage to supplement our health regimens with nature's bounty found right in our region!

One can tell Adam is doing something for excellent brain health. Wow, he is inspiring.

I actually found one in my backyard yesterday. Actually I should say, IT found ME. 😊

This had to be your best, most informative video yet!!! I'm always impressed with your knowledge about the medicinal properties of plants and fungi.

O NO! I saw some of these yesterday but didn't know what they were. I'm goin back!

So bless to be finding these after the wildfire pollution we’ve been experiencing this year ❤

It's really amazing that you know so much about mushrooms and edible plants!

This is channel is just AMAZING!!!!! God bless you!

May God bless Adam every day

Awesome video Adam thank you for your extensive knowledge and wisdom that you present in such a easily digestible fashion.

I was looking for mayapple fruit (thanks to your new video!) and happily stumbled upon a few of these beauties. They're a little past their prime, and still good so I'm drying them now. Thanks for a great video, Adam! Much love from the Midwest US 💖

When I first saw your videos I thought - oh great some little hippie boy will now walk me through the woods. WRONG. You are a fountain of knowledge, a brilliant communicator and a man of Science. Im subscribed!! PS 72 year old mushroom hunter now living in the Philippines.

2017 was such an incredible year.

Hey Adam, I married a Canadian and now live half the year in New Brunswick, and half the year in St Pete, Fl. My wife and I belong to the Florida Native Plant Society. I'm not very active in the society, but we pay our $70 in dues every year to support them and I try to make it to the yearly Xmas gathering they always have at our counties largest preserve. I was there this year having lunch at a table with people from several different county chapters and started talking about my limited knowledge of mushrooms and how fascinating they were. They were all VERY interested and wanted to know if I could get up sometime and give a talk. I'd love to be our mushroom guy, but I'm not nearly that guy yet. Turns out nobody in that large group knew anyone that knew their stuff about mushrooms and be able to give a talk. So since it's Florida where everyone wants to vacation, I thought I'd throw it out there and see if you'd be interested in maybe coordinating a vacation around our area sometime around the middle of Dec and giving a talk? Curious, I'm positive you give lectures, do you charge a fee and approx how much? I'm not sure what kind of speaking fees we'd be able to drum up for you, but hopefully enough to make it worth your while. If you have the money, no doubt you'd rather stay close to the beach, but if not, I could put you up in very modest conditions for free if it was for 3 days or so. I say 3 cuz my wife and I still work. The preserve is called Brooker Creek and we always go on a guided nature hike afterwards. I pointed out chicken of the woods to everybody. Some russulas. You'd see alligators and other cool stuff you don't get to see in PA. If you could get back to me on this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

I found one on an oak tree today in Ontario, Canada! After years of collecting turkey tails and keeping my eyes open for reishi, the reishi has evaded me until today!

WOW...amazing content...almost thought I was listening to the audiobook of an encyclopedia! But a lot more captivating! Excellent!

Dr. Haritan, you are inspiring! Your website is a perfect supplement to an ecology course. Thanks for sharing, Adam!

The hemlocks are very badly depleted here... though on an optimistic note the little saplings have been having a comeback. Hopefully these fungi will appear a lot here and be a good consolation for the invasive bugginess here. Great video! (as usual)

dear adam, if you were a mushroom i think you’d be a liberty cap… because you have so much to teach us. love yer work and peaceful down to earth energy.

Hi Adam, Thank you for caring and sharing. I have watched a lot of video on mushrooms and your passion is rewarding. Very informative. I now have a place to go or send people that want to know about mushrooms. 🍀

I would love to find someone as informative as you with west coast info.

Just getting into ganoderma.... and yes there is a sugae out here in Oregon, I assume on western hemlock. Anyway... great video and presentation! .... and timely with all the cancers and problems out there. I think lots of people will be shortly waking up to this one.

I find them every summer.Where my bush camp is,there's an eastern hemlock stump that produces reishi annually.Eastern hemlocks are usually found along creeks,and streams.Plus the eastern hemlock is Pennsylvania's state tree.

My dead tree gifted me with two stunners. Harvested today.🥰 The expansive roots of my dead tree are now yielding shroomies feet away from my dead tree. Woot!

Hi Adam. You're a pretty smart kid. And you are sharing your knowledge with the world. You articulate complex biochemical processes with the simplicity of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My wife is pounding on my chest ordering me to western Pennsylvania in May in search of the Reishi and fiddle head ferns. You are blessed with a great talent. Please continue on this pathway.

Found a bunch of it today. I shall make some tea and live forever.

Found this in my neighbor's yard on a birch stump. I could not figure it out with certainty until now. Adam does it again. Thanks, friend!

This is my favorite mushroom to hunt in the spring. The mountain streams in my area of SW Virginia have been prolific with these. I can also tote a collapsible fishing rod with me and try for some native brook trout. I made my first batch of dual extraction tincture out of Reishi last year and take it daily. One of my most memorable moments was tightrope walking across a fallen Hemlock laying across the stream over a ravine that had a nice flush on it. I'm not crazy about heights, or walking the plank, but it was too good to pass up.

blown away by the amount of knowledge and articulation. like looking at a young paul stamets.

Thank you, Adam. I have learnt a great deal about mushrooms in the last four months watching your videos. I found a couple of fairly large ganoderma applanatum just the other day.

Thank you ,thank you, thank you my brother! You are a gift to humanity! God bless you and your family!

She 's a good chef and great sister , she care for everyone in her family , Hao's friends are lucky to try her food the first time :)

It's really cool how nature provides you with a soundtrack

👍Terrific! I was amazed with the results! I highly recommend it. Plants were the first medicine used by humans and remain effective tools in caring for our health but government regulations & big pharmaceutical companies get in the way. I took my health into my own hands! Your health is truly your wealth! 💞

Thank for sharing all the remarkable amount of stored information you have been blessed to learn & stay heathy using on a daily basis. You can tell you've enjoyed a Lot of Lion's Mane mushrooms 😊 and the benefits of all the other mushrooms herbs 🌱, bark, etc. You are a wealth of knowledge & Me & mine are so glad we joined your YT community years ago❣ Keep them coming & we'll keep coming back to learn from you. God bless & protect you & all the amazing mushrooms🍄 He created for our health & wellness❣ 🙆‍♀️ Maranatha ❤ 🐑 🩸🩸🩸✝️ 🤍🕊💫🙌

I have a Reishi growing on the base of an Eastern Redbud about 2 inches above the ground. here in Alton Illinois! I'm very happy about it. It's only about 1-2 weeks old and its all alone.

Thank you for taking the time to post this. I know it`s not a new video to many, but it`s a great new find for me whilst foraging on the net. : )

Another awesome video Adam. Thanks for your time again!!!!!

Yes Bro! Thanks for the info, just recently started foraging while traveling. Subbed

I just discovered your channel while I was searching for the info about edible wild mushrooms and wondering about the mushroom that I found in the woods. You're very knowledgeable about all medical terminologies and wild mushrooms. Very informative contents about reishi mushrooms that are very popular to use medically as you mentioned in my country. I just fall in love with your channel. Thanks!

Pure serendipity led me to medicinal mushrooms; bought Reishi, Lion's Mane, powder, capsules and chunks of Chaga, noticed prompt physical and mental results so want to hunt them now. I'm in NW Missouri. From St. Joseph and live in Kansas City. Missouri has a humongous forest named Mark Twain Forest. It's so big and I'm 67 years old, I'll stick to what we country boys call the Woods. Had lots of fun at age 7 catching snakes and selling them each for a nickel to a place called Reptile Gardens. Class B Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack. At age 16 a new car cost 2,000 dollars and it was possible to work and earn net pay of 200 dollars weekly. TO ME, America was indeed GREAT then. THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEOS. I LOVE THE FOREST(S) YOU USE.

I've found what looks very, very much like, if not exactly like, Ganoderma Tsugae, growing on Red Oaks here in South Eastern VA. Of course up in the mountains and along the AT, I ran into the Hemlock Reishi many times. Beautiful mushroom in many ways. Thanks Adam for this, of so many other fantastic videos you've done.

i live in FL now, but i'm from western PA carrolltown, ebensburg area, i miss the sheep head mushrooms, i had some nice patches, but now it's mostly chantrail's ,and honey wafer mushrooms here in FL and a few magic one's here and their? lol but i don't eat them, but they are abundant! nice video bro...you make me miss home!

Meanwhile.......after eating mushrooms.....60 yrs later.....Adam is actually 80 years old!

Wow! Thanks for sharing, so exciting, I just sent this to my husband and want to go with him "hunting" mushrooms in the german forests, I am mexican and in my country the natives go for them and sell them to earn their living, so it is exciting for me to go and have the posibility to get them myself!! I am taking the powder of this mushroom like for the past 6 months, every day and want to see what it does to me in the long terms, I´m 58 and excited to find out, big hug and blessings you guys.

I'm so happy I subscribed to this channel. I just found a bunch of these mushrooms growing on fallen hemlocks. I though they looked interesting, but couldn't identify them. This is the third video in a row that has identified a mushroom that I had found. It's like having you with me as I'm hiking. Thanks again.

Really enjoying your content, and you certainly know your onions. Great to watch. I've been foraging mushrooms for a number of years , but watching your channel I realise I've an awful lot to learn yet. Great great channel Matt. Sincere regards, Shane.

just saw some of these the other day they look almost leathery. love your video happy i found this one

They are growing in my back yard on a silver maple stump. I was so excited to see them growing there! I’m in Pennsylvania in an eastern superb of Pittsburgh.

I found these today!!! New to mushroom hunting here, trying to absorb as much info as I can. I live in Mass! Love your channel!

YES YES YES ADAM!! I just found u on last video. Bam there it is! Out of research I kept saying Reishi mushroom. Than i found out it is used in China. So i was very confused as to why its growing on my front lawn. We had a tree taken down. N maybe 5 yrs later these started popping up. My intuition sd this is great medicinal food. So then I researched. It is def not tree your describing. It grows from stump and some parts by roots. What also confused me is that some were clustered as others stood alone. Which is exactly what u showed. I have not eaten any mushrooms I see. I just observe, cut open, check for gills or spores and print color. And these turn that gray, bruised color. Oh I can't wait till next yr. Finally it will be 3 yrs n NOW properly identified. Thank you Adam!!! I know I'm gonna say it wrong as being a newbie. But now we have stinky chicken feet. Yuck. But I see they are also for breaking down tree decay. Pew pew lol

I recently started growing reishi - very excited! Thank you for this video & for your channel!

I almost sure, that I found one on birch and spruce trees here in Denmark. Ok, should have seen the video to the end 😂. I bow for your knowledge about the forest.

I SEARCHED ALL OVER N.W. MISSOURI FOR REISHI MUSHROOMS. FINALLY, LAST SEASON I DISCOVERED A SMALL BATCH OF THEM. THEY WERE ABOUT 300 FT FROM THE MISSOURI RIVER, ABOUT 15- TO 20- FEET ABOVE THE WATERLINE. AND THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL SAMPLES.

Thank you Adam for confirming some of the literature that I have read on the web. Keep on sharing your knowledge. You are a great teacher.

You are such a wealth of knowledge, I enjoy all your videos! I hope you keep it going for years to come!

This guy is the mushroom doctor

Dude your awesome and I throughly enjoy your videos... I would love to hike the woods with ya. Northern Michigan here... peace

Dude has got knowledge. Respect bro. Subbed

This is the best video I have seen on this subject! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! You are so relaxed and wise that I feel confident your wisdom will spread far! I am now a fan and will watch the other videos and share on my social! ❤️

OH my god, this guy. Impressive. Thank you Adam

You are ‘The Mushroom Whispererrrrr’.........(must whisper whisperer).....so interesting!.......such a good teacher....awesome medicinal knowledge..aloha from Hawaii...🌺🥰

Thank you for making these very professional and informative videos.Can you please post a video on how to properly prepare these reishi mushrooms?

FIRST!!! :D I love Learn Your Land!! It has opened up a world of healthy wild edibles to me. I learn so much from these videos and appreciate it!!

This was such a great video. I found my first reishi mushroom today that’s a foot and a half long! Also, with it being as big as it is I was surprised to see it still has a white under bottom (I know as they mature they turn to grey - brown). Anyways, such a helpful video, especially for a science nut like me who cares to know all about the various species within the genus as well as the specific compounds that benefit ones health!

I saw some of those while fishing in CT last summer and took a beautiful picture of it now I know I can harvest it for medicinal purposes

Outstanding, Adam! I soooooo need one of you in the Mid Missouri area(!) :-) Thank you for all of your efforts at educating us while you are out there *loving* your land.

Great video Adam. We live in the Poconos. Behind us are 50+ acres of conservation property which is made up of strictly hemlock forest. We harvest G. tsugae every year. Mostly to paint wildlife scenes on. I am skeptical about the healing properties of G. tsugae and chaga. We shall give it a try in tincture form this spring. Thanks for the info!

Here in Louisiana I find them on fallen white oak logs. Sometimes on live ones. Love your channel. Year around also

That was the first wild mushroom i ate . Absolutely delicious! Easy to ID ! It was a late winter with a cold spring that I found it 4th of July in the Adirondacks!

I love the videos! This young man is very knowledgeable and thorough.

Thanks for your content! You have helped me with my walk with mushrooms

I currently have 5 mason jars of reishi tincture sitting and fermenting in alcohol. I can’t wait to finish up and begin using reishi in my daily regime

You are one smart individual ! Thank you for all this informations

Western PA... thats my old stomping grounds. You definitely know your mushrooms.. 🍄

Love watching your segments, Adam, very informative!

Found a couple of Ganoderma curtisii a few miles from my house less than a week ago. Made me so giddy!

Love your videos! I spent the late winter learning from them hoping to find Morels in So. Ma so far none,,, however Just realized while looking for the morels I was walking through a mother load of Reishi, I never knew what they were and just figured that anything that shiny and gooey looking had to be dangerous. lol, going out this w/e to scratch the underside to make sure, fingers crossed.

Thank you Adam! Love your videos!

Thanks! Its amazing what you can find in your own back yard.

I’ve only ever seen Reishi growing terrestrially by stumps next to sidewalks in the city! Pretty crazy seeing them in wisconsin at all to be honest!

I really like u lad.. U have HIGH CHARACTERS..and unbound knowledge on mycology, biichemist = body bio chemistry, medicinals & i believe so, pharmaceuticals. U going into ALTERNATIVE MEDS, WOW...THIS IS A THING OF THE FUTURE. "REVIVE PAST TIMES FOR A QUALITY FUTURE." U know what i mean.

OUTSTANDING! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and your energy!

you are so knowledgeable., i can't get enough of your videos 👍🏻👍🏻

A street near me there is a stump on the ground & its loaded with a type of reishi.

You are the man, Adam! 🍄❤

I love every one of your videos. Thank you!

i thing that with your great kno;age you might help me stop leaving great Species behind and loose these to be lost forever. hope you keep doing these vids.

Hi Adam, a bit of a "behind the scenes" question about how you prepare for your videos: do you memorise/recall information and shoot, or do you look up notes between takes? Your wealth of knowledge is impressive!

Near Louisville Kentucky, it's growing on dead ash stumps. I have a quart of tea in the refrigerator. I put a little sweet and low in it. Goodbye cancer

In Florida it grows on oak trees. I just found two in my backyard under a rotting oak 😊

Wow, this is little early to have this reishi. Lucky you Adam . Thank you