Nikki Leroux watches Dec. 8 as her husband, Justin Triquet, drills a hole in a yellow birch in Jay. She would then pound a dowel infused with chaga mushroom spores into the hole and seal it up with a beeswax compound.
These dowels infused with chaga mushroom spores will be pounded into trees.
Justin Triquet hammers a wooden dowel on Dec. 8 in Jay that is infused with Chaga mushroom spores. In 5 years they will be ready to harvest. He and his wife Nikki Leroux are the first in North America to be licensed for this growing industry.
Nikki Leroux holds pieces of a chaga mushroom Dec. 8 that were in the freezer of her and husband Justin Triquet's home in Livermore Falls.
Skip, who did not want his last name used, toasts with Nikki Leroux and Justin Triquet on Dec. 8 at their home in Livermore Falls. The contractor, who is working on a room in their home, said since using the chaga mushroom elixir his chronic stomach issues are cured and he has more energy.
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