An ideal outdoors woman gift…

by Jan 29, 2015Adventures in the Woods, Women Who Hunt

An ideal outdoors woman gift…

…is this! Sent to me by one of the coolest people I know.

Do you know what it is?

It’s chaga! I was going to make a concentrate during the snow storm but I made venison stew in my crockpot instead.  I am eager to break it down to drink in my coffee and tea.  I have had it before and loved it.  I am so excited to try making it on my own – and then, I need to work on identifying it in the woods so that I can continue to get it.

Do you drink chaga?

1 Comment

  1. Chaga – daily! It's in my coffee and tea, and I drink chaga tea. Good stuff!

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