Hen Of The Woods (Maitake, Sheep's Head) Mushroom Identification & Health Benefits with Adam Haritan 

These are the best, most informative videos I've seen on RU-vid about mushrooms. You are so passionate and knowledgeable about this topic that it's hard to stop watching. I always think I will get bored but I never do, and always watch until the very end!

I just started to learn about and take medicinal mushrooms. I ate my first Shitake last night, delicious, much more mushroom flavor than white caps with a hint of smokiness to them. I'm on Reishi for blood pressure and taking Lions Mane for memory, increased cognition. I'm 65 and off all big pharma meds. Off to find some Maitake in Massachusetts....

Great final message Adam! Ancient Sioux healing wisdom states, “your always crawling distance to the medicines you need”

I've been finding these in my yard for years. I generally clean and freeze them and use them in soups and salads for the winter season.

My husband and I just found our first one! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

We have a property that has ENDLESS oak trees. Every time I'm there, I hope and pray to find some Maitake. No such blessing yet. I'll never give up! Last weekend we found about 4 pounds of Lion's Mane and it was absolutely DELICIOUS! We coated them with organic steak seasoning, cooked them in some coconut oil in a cast iron skillet and served them on fresh-baked organic, gluten-free buns with garden-fresh red onions, lettuce and tomato. OH SO VERY DELICIOUS! You never need any meat with Lion's Mane. They can replace meat in just about everything! Mmm...

I tried this mushroom for the first time today. Absolutely delicious and I’m happy to hear about the added health benefits. Nature has all of the answers.

We found one tonight, cleaning up after taking down an ash tree in our back yard. we were very excited and hope to find another shortly! hubby is planning to cook a little up tonight and I'm planning to dehydrate the rest. there's probably 10 lbs of it!

I’ve had a gold mine on my property all this time! We’re currently soaking some while watching this video! Thanks for the info!

I love how you are so clearly passionate about mushrooms and their health benefits. The way you express it is how I express my passion and education with turtles. I love it! Thank you for your knowledge and passion :-D

I just found one about 5 pounds and three small immature ones I will definitely be back for the others in a few days. I love your enthusiasm .

What a great channel. You're super knowledgeable. I love the balance between science and mysticism being presented here.

"The universe is so abundant, everything that we need is quite literally all around us"

I just found 3 Maitake mushrooms last night around an oak tree right next to my house, literally 20 ft from my front door. Maybe nature is trying to tell me something and taking care of me :)

I watched the video with my grandfather whose been collecting mushrooms in the woods for decades. We had no idea they were so medicinal. Thanks for the great video!

this is the best mushroom I have had so far, haven't had chicken of the woods yet, but these taste just like chicken on a pizza with spinach and goat cheese. Now my vegetarian wife knows what my favorite pizza tastes like. I need a beefy mushroom next, turkey tail powder has a meatiness to it but being a powder there is no chew to it and the texture is really key to convincing my own mouth.

Just started foraging for the edible/medicinal plants three or four years ago, but now I’m looking forward to the fungi thinking they might serve my health better. Great stuff as usual Adam, and I do love the spark you bring to the learning process, and to the table.

I found one on my property by a very old stump. So far on my property I've seen the Cherry Dogwood, Walnut and Pear trees. Ive also seen fern starting to grow, blackberries and now the Maitake mushroom. Can't wait to find more edibles. I have Purslane and Stinging Nettle where I currently live. I'm going to transplant it on my property for future use. The Purslane leaves taste just like lettuce. I love this channel.

I'm in New Hampshire it's july and i am finding them!

Thank you for making me want to study mycology in depth.I am a Pharmacist but know little about fungi.You have enlightened me and inspired.

Your enthusiasm is contagious

I wish this mushroom grew here in North Dakota. If it does, I have yet to find it. I have bought dried Maitake mushrooms and I can attest to its ability to control my A1C. It is also one of the better tasting mushrooms. Once again Adam, this was a great video.

I'm so glad to have discovered your channel. Sheep's Head was the first wild mushroom I ever tasted, and I can say it is truly delicious. My father's friend enjoyed mushroom hunting and he said that he had the best luck finding Sheep's Head around oak stumps.

I'm a fellow mycophagist! Miatakies are great! I get matsi's in my area. Ive heard Pennsylvanian is a place where matsi's grow!

I absolutely loved this video and I can feel the excitement

greetings from eastern PA, I will be out next summer early looking for morels, maitake, turkey tails, and many more. Last year was my first year foraging, hope to get out more this spring. Nature is where it's at. Take care

Just wanted to say thank you for pushing for the old ways of healing. Upon the Mother there are plants that can heal us. Main thing is that we as humans have to harvest wisely. Too much of the Earth is being destroyed daily. Blessings upon you and thank you for the videos that you make.

This is my first year looking for and finding mushrooms thanks to you !! I have found about 30lbs of hen of the woods mushrooms so far this fall. I'm cooking and drying them for the winter. I can / jar my veggies and will be doing the same with theses. I just wanted to say thank you for all your videos and for being so straight forward with identification and making it easier to understand. I've become a big fan !! Thanks !!

I’ve been watching your teachings all day bro! I’ve learned a ton!! 🙏 P.S. I subscribed my brother

So, someone PLEASE tell me, how do I preserve this. There's a huge 1 at the base of my oak tree in my front yard- right at the bottom of my front porch. 1st yr that this kind has been there. *the very next video I will be watching is just for/about what I asked for. 👍

Have you ever made Maitake jerky? It'd delicious! My mom has an abundance of Maitake growing in her yard Sept-Oct.

Thank you! So informative ! I ran into someone in the woods collecting these and she explained it to me but before I tried it I wanted to make sure it was edible! You have sold me... I will be making soup today. Nice work!

Great videos. Your channel is the most informative and interesting content I have come across in my journey to learn my land.

Being from Japan, maitake mushroom is one of my favorites. Thank you for the very informative video

this channel is so fantastic! learning so much from you dude!

Father Yahweh has provided for us immensely. Much love from the Foothills of NC, Adam! Thanks for sharing your wonderful knowledge. May Yahweh bless.

I always sun dry as much as possible and if necessary, then throw in the dehydrator before powdering it. If not, they will take up 1/2 of my freezer. None last year because it was so dry. Hopefully this coming summer sees more rain later in the year.

it's coming up on 5 years of me foraging. I did it before of course but didn't call it that. I just went though an awful 6 weeks and then a week where a lot of the time the only peaceful way I could get food was to forage. I was listening to Mojave Phone Booth's hollow the numbers. when grandmother variations transitioned into landlocked, I found a hen of the woods and knew everything would be okay. I'm going to memorize landlocked on glockenspiel (marimbas are expensive) and drink rooibos tea made with the hen of the woods, a Ganoderma, and some turkey tail. thank you Adam for introducing me to this mushroom. it's benefits have always been clear to me but especially now.

I've no idea what it is, but I found a somewhat similar mushroom last weekend. It does have some distinct differences, though. Gills, the color was a brownish-orange, and, although it was growing in a cluster somewhat like hen, it's shape was funnel like. It was also growing on, I think, a cut down coniferous tree (no idea what specific tree, it was cut down long ago, I'm just guessing by the texture of it's bark). I posted it in a mushroom I.D. group on facebook, but no one was able to help with it.

Great info about Maitake! I found a lot of turkey tail in Georgia nine months ago. Still have some in the jar. Now can't wait for an Autumn to look for Maitake ! Also going to order it from Real Mushrooms, they have just added Maitake to their line up of medicinal mushrooms. Everyone should order Maitake only from real mushrooms. Because they are using the correct extraction methods with hot water!❤ Thank you buddy 😊!

The closing statement @8:30 is absolutely 💯 👌...

Great video--all of yours are. I went out in the woods today and found 2 huge Maitake mushrooms at the base of this gigantic oak tree. I went home and got my three sons to show them, and they found three more on the other side of the trunk. Amazing! Now to find a way to cook them.

Dude! Just found you and this vid... I am from Western PA too! I live on a massive farm with woods, if you're ever up to come pick and look around let me know! I'd love a chance to learn more and share what we have!

Just found around 15 pounder this morning in northern Iowa. Thanks for the video.

Hen of the woods just became my favorite mushroom... It use to be morels.. But after this video,,,, Now its hen of the woods... I have both,, stage 3 renal cell carcinoma (clear cell) and type 2 diabetes... I will be hunting my ass off this year for hen of the woods....

great video. I found my first sheeps head on the LHHT last fall. I wasnt sure or confident but I took a pic and so I left it there.

New time enthusiast, first wild identification and harvest was some field blewits (lepista personata). They offered a real Bovril quality, very pleasant to eat - I appreciate not everyone's digestive system gets on with said mushroom but definitely worth trying. I have subscribed, I will continue bingeing. Thank you for a relaxed, charming and very informative show.

I have a dozen tree's nearby that produce every year. They are also very easy to get to grow . If you find and older specimen or past the edible stage pick it and spread it around under mature oak or Cherry . You will get them to grow for a year or 2

Going out this morning to look for some of these lovelies. So far I have used mullen, Labrador, pine needles, and boneset to build my health up from covid.

Your videos are amazingly helpful. There's no mushroom clubs in my area and looking through my books doesn't give me the confidence to actually eat what I find. Are you completely self-taught or did you take any courses to get all the knowledge you have?

Found one today! Thanks for the info!

Thanks a lot ! I think I found my first hen of the woods today. Still need to do extra research to make sure I identified it properly though. The pores are very big and wet and look a little like tiny teeth in some areas...

My personal favorite--you truly are Linnaeus’s krazy godchild/--appreciate how you qualify your statements especially on levels of corroboration with modifiers on whether it “is” or is “known to be”. Lotta trust in ur expertise, but really enjoy all ur stuff. I also grew up in Eastern PA @ the base of Hawk 🏔 & have traveled extensively but realize what a great area I now roam around in! Hope this goes thru///1st time I tried to send to one of these. ‼️🏴‍☠️

Well done. My family gathers this mushroom for decades. North East New Jersey.

Nutritious AND absolutely delicious!!

I harvested over 200 pounds last year.They grow all around me in Washington Co,PA

Thank you for spreading this great knowledge dude!

Thank you so much for the tips and advice! I love watching your videos and love your passion with nature 🙌🏼❤️ we can learn to live off the land again and reconnect with our roots! The medicine and abundance is all around us! 🌳

I found one today about the size of a volley ball. Your video really helped in identifying this mushroom. Thanks

I found my first one today in my local park! Slightly different in looks as it have a little more of a brainy look and not so “flaky” but everything else checks out so I’m going for it! Great channel!!!

You’re so passionate about it, I love it! Keep us informed, thanks Adam!

You are so informative. I love how I can feel the passion of your love for Fungi. Your vibe is hella strong! Thank you 🍄❤️

Love what you have to say Adam! The universe is abundant :-) I found my first untouched hen of the woods and it was euphoric! Made an omelet today and going to delve into medicine making making with the rest! Happy foraging

I think I'm pretty close to you geographically . Im in Westmoreland and have had my first year of real success looking. Thankyou for helping in my journey

I just discovered your channel and watched about 4 of your videos, really good information and useful to know,especially for proper identification and uses. i have always been interested in this subject and have a reasonable knowledge. i wondered if in your videos you could also mention if whatever mushroom you are talking about grows in the UK. i know we have a lot of them that are the same but sometimes with a different common name.it would save us having to Google every one of them to find out. Your information is accurate and a tip on whether we are likely to have it here would be a great help. You make good videos, interesting, informative and useful. Thank you for sharing what you have learned.

AMAZING! had to share on my Facebook page! Been busy harvesting the abundance of this beautiful season

I walked out my backdoor and found under one of my oak trees tons of this mushroom. It seemed too easy. LOL

How can I send you pictures? I found what I'm sure is Hen of the woods near my home. I broke a chunk off and tasted it. It was wonderful!!!! I wait for you to say what good food it was and how good it tasted and how much protein it had I've heard it was 75% protein and the piece I hate several years back I hit it with my eggs and for breakfast I cooked it Fried it in oil and it was absolutely wonderful!! I thought that it tasted like the best thing I'd eaten all your long; at least that's what my body told me!!!

Bless you your knowledge and wisdom. You are an amazing young man. Keep up the great work 😃

I found some at the base of a big dead ash. Thank you for teaching me must of my mushroom knowledge.

EXCELLENT TEACHING ON MAITAKE MUSHROOMS AND BENEFITS: I ENJOYED THIS VIDEO THANK YOU 👏👏👏 💯🅰️+ KEEP UP THE BEAUTIFUL ART WORK AND KNOWLEDGE GREAT UNDERSTANDING TEACHINGS ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF FORAGING MUSHROOMS" MOTHER NATURE IS POWERFUL AND VERY KIND AND PLENTIFUL IN GIVING TO US TO HELP US WITH OUR HEALTH JOURNEY" IM VERY GRATEFUL AND MY GRATITUDE IS THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER FOR ALL THAT YOU DO WITH YOUR MORE THAN AMAZING CREATIONS ALL OVER YOUR BEAUTIFUL EARTH" 👏👏👏

Adam, excellent video. I too admire your passion and the way you choose to feed your body. Can't wait to see what you have to say about the great one, the Morel.

Your excitement is contagious!❤️

adam, you are my spirit animal! 🤩 i love all your content. 🌳💚

According to Japanese tv (which is all about science, food, and helping Japan), if you freeze your mushrooms prior to cooking or whatever, the vitamins and minerals contained within the mushroom become easier to extract from the mushroom through digestion (or other means of extraction also im sure). Just cut them up however you like them first, freeze, then pull out whenever you need them.

In southern Indiana I found under a maple tree, between some exposed maple roots, I swear I found hen, but its late may. Weve had 7 days straight of rain. I didnt check the mushroom out like crazy but I was pretty sure thats what it was. Am I crazy? I can take a pic but im sure your very busy. Just wondering. Love your vids man keep it up!

I think I just found one in my yard! This is amazing. Thank you for all of the info you have provided me with! I can't wait to learn more :)

Is there anything about mushrooms Adam doesn't know?! Love it!

Love what you said towards the end. Agree 100%. We all should take responsibility for our health as naturally possible. Much better than petropharmaceuticals and synthetic chemicals.

Adam you refer to your personal health program. or something similar in a number of your videos. How did you develop the program based on the consumption of wild mushrooms and fungus? I think it took a brush with my own death, to cause me to realize over time, that all we need to be healthy and become healthy is growing around us. We may be years apart but our philosophy is the same. You are ahead of me I am catching up but your help and enthusiasm is pushing me along

excellent,

Amazing speech to the end, glad to find this channel

I so love the explanation my body needs the D2 and I bet I can so much more out of this,my diabetes the inflammation of my joints! I will look in the woods behind my home in Tennessee and let you know how eating and taking care of my body goes,thank you,L.Napier

I think its growing next to my garage, so I'm here to help make a positive ID.

I just found over 30lbs at a local playground in Central NH!!!

fantastic video! the last minute is gold. thanks, Adam

I love mushrooms and it's benefits💕

I'm also from western Pennsylvania,,, late last week just walking through the woods I found a small clump of chicken of the woods and 3 that looks kinda like cauliflower,,, didn't pick any of them though because I wasn't too familiar with wild mushrooms,,,

Is it possible to find one all-white no brown, I ate one the same size was absolutely brilliant. Thank you for the work you do.

You're an inspiring dude! Keep up the great work :)

I’ve watched three of your more updated videos then, I’ve watched this one. I’ve always been curious looking at mushrooms as a child but idk where to start. You’re making my childhood come alive because you are so passionate about them. As a substitute for meat, I do eat mushroom pizza anyways. They are so good but never as fresh. I’m sure. Also, a lot of people think I’m a little weird that I enjoy mushroom pizza but won’t eat dry shrooms that cause hallucinations. Do any specific ones cause hallucinations?

I'm finding maitake and chicken of the woods now. I live near I80 in Illinois.

Yo man you're awesome !!! I'm inspired by your RU-vid videos! I was just hunting wild turkey this spring ,upstate New York and found a mother load of morel mushrooms! I'm from Eastern PA, Pinegrove. Ramsheads grow everywhere in my area ... I really enjoyed the information and knowledge that you have. Thank you!

Absolute legend. The sentiments expressed in this video wonderfully present the tone of all your videos. Thank you for putting in to sharp focus a view on humans as nature, a universally accessible and shared way of being, a relationship with our bodies and environment

Does it grow in Arkansas or are we too hot of a climate ? We do have plenty of Oak trees. Pin Oak,Red Oak,Post Oak ,Scrub Oak , Black Jack. I do find plenty of mushrooms . The medicinal ones I've found so far are Ganoderma Sessile & Lions Mane.

awesome videos man! love how you present them with such enthusiasm! great teacher

Had our first one last year and made a great soup out of it!! Yummmm!

Yo bud your awesome thanks so much for the knowledge and all you do!!! Now I know what that mushroom is.. I found one jus like it and didn't know what it was.. now I'm goin back soon to the same spot same time! Thanx heritan main! Love ya works

Always a great vid. Thanks for this.

Since I grew up in OAKdale, maybe I'll find some......Hmmm, maybe i'll find yours !