Shasta Wasabi

05/26/2026

Welcome to Azumino, Japan…one of the most famous grow regions for wasabi in the world. My good friend Mochizuki san, a 5th generation wasabi farmer, was kind enough to give me a tour of his farm 🙇‍♂️

04/15/2026

One of my favorite mushrooms to pick, logging Morels! These are tough to find as they blend in perfectly with the plethora of ponderosa and Jefferson pine cones littering the forest floor.

Wasabi helped me reconnect with the land that raised me. I call it the Green mid life crisis…best thing that’s ever happened to me!

Thanks to for tagging along to film and forage with me 👌

03/31/2026

This video is a great example on the lack of exposure and awareness even the best chefs have regarding the role Oroshigane (graters) plays in the flavors wasabi can generate. Here we took the same exact wasabi stem and grated it on multiple grating surfaces. Each surface creates different flavors and alternating complexities. Like switching from alto saxophone to an oboe. Each oroshi serves a different function; from prolonging pungency to maximizing potential.

As I’ve learned over time, the oroshi is half the wasabi battle 👌

Thank you to for the beautiful video and from for his time and willingness to play with a humble wasabi farmer 🙇‍♂️ 🙏

See you soon primo with my best wasabi from this years harvest 🇻🇪

DM me if you’d like to learn more 😉

12/31/2025

Happy last day of 2025!!! Cheers 🥂 to 2026…

2025 was really good to us. We learned a ton, created new relationships, and expanded our small farm a bit. A big goal was getting more data within our beds. By learning what’s working and what doesn’t with concrete metrics, we will only grow better wasabi.

We will never produce large amounts. That is not our goal. We want to combine the purest spring water on Earth with the best wasabi genetics available…and grow something truly special. I wish everyone could try our stuff, but I don’t imagine that being a possibility.

I’d like to give a special salute to the true stewards of nature. When I leave this planet, the land I worked will be healthier for the next generations to come. For me, this is the goal. What drives me. What I love. Wasabi has given me this gift. And I will always love and hold this plant in the highest respects.

10/05/2025

Sun Bed. 2nd planting. This crop is a mix of Japanese imports and my generational Misho.


















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02/13/2025

Thank you Alexandra Byrne from for the excellent article. It’ll be interesting to see if Trump tariffs imported Japanese wasabi. It’s already super expensive due to massive demand, small supply, climate change, aging farmers, and the difficulty in growing the plant commercially. In the meantime, I’ll just keep having fun doing what I’m doing 👌 Hoping to harvest in a couple months.

10/24/2024

WASABI LEAF & STEM Tincture
- organic grain alcohol
- Mt Shasta spring water infusion

I’m very excited about this product. This is a tincture collaboration between myself and . Right now we’re in preliminary testing. I keep a bottle in my car and use as a mouth and face spray.

This tincture was made using the leaves and petioles (leaf stems) of my freshly harvested wasabi, then infused with organic grain alcohol and unfiltered Mt. Shasta spring water over a 2 week period.

Yasuko is a master herbalist that is native Japanese and fuses her cultural wisdom with years experience in western apothecarial methods. I’ve used a range of her products and they are all absolutely phenomenal. I don’t know what half of them are and I don’t know much regarding cosmetics, but I do when when something is made with meticulous love and attention. I can see and feel the energy and knowledge that Yasuko enervates into her offerings.

I strongly believe Wasabi as a cosmetic application is an entirely new frontier with exciting potential. What Wasabi based cosmetics would you be interested in?

08/14/2024

If you’re in San Francisco and want to try some of the best, real, and freshest Wasabi on Earth, check out Hokkaido Sashimi Marketplace on Geary. I’ll be selling exclusively to them. Quantities are very limited!!

https://www.facebook.com/hokkaidosashimisf?mibextid=LQQJ4d

07/28/2024

Very informative and well done video investigation on real wasabi!

This video also features my gaijin Japanese mentor David! His farm in Okutama is special…and he offers tours 👌

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07/19/2024

A true masterpiece!! I’ve been looking for an artist that could capture the essence and magnificence of the Wasabi plant in a botanical fashion and absolutely knocked it out of the park! We also wanted to label the anatomy of the plant in English, kanji, and phonetic Japanese, which we were able to achieve thanks to a similar project I did with a year or so ago. I can’t wait to get the watercolor print and frame it ❤️