Shasta Wasabi

Shasta Wasabi Shasta Wasabi is a Sawa, or water grown wasabi farm. Our wasabi is cultivated on pristine, pure, private water springs sourced from Mount Shasta.

We use no fertilizers, no pesticides or synthetic applications. 1000% ORGANIC

09/02/2026

Strolling along endless fields of wasabi with my translation team Miho & Julien, and Azuma san, head of outreach with the farm division

What a beautiful experience. Through connection and collaboration, I was granted private access with to learn how they manage, farm, and rotate thousands upon thousands of wasabi plants. How they use every single part of the plant (roots, meristem, petioles, leaves) for direct use in their restaurants, sales at their store, or processed products. And how they keep a culinary legacy alive despite climate change, aging farmers and new problems that arise every season (Florida fresh water shrimp, thieves).

Wasabi farming at this scale is unimaginable. It literally takes a village; of wives, laborers, chefs, accountants, security.

Thank you for your courteousness and the opportunity 🙏
🙇‍♂️ and thank you for your hospitality ❤️

08/31/2026

Welcome to a private tour of in Azumino, Japan. This is one of the biggest wasabi farms in the country and open for tourist visits featuring 2 restaurants, a gift shop, and a few snack stalls. Their fields stretch in multiple directions and some patches go as far as the eye can see. Daio uses what’s called Ishi Zukri, or the rock method as their rooting substrate. This is basically a mixture of varying sized river rock down to particulate sand, which is the natural rock ecosystem of this branch and terrain of the Sai River complex.

I don’t think this growing method can be duplicated anywhere in the world. Mostly because this entire farm sits on seeping springs that bubble up oxygen and nutrient rich spring water from deep underground. This farm is not a river diversion, it’s a large spring complex that sits in the Azumino valley surrounded by the Nagano Japanese Alps.

In August, Daio’s wasabi plants are usually protected by shade cloth as wasabi is more of shade plant and can be affected by prolonged sunlight. However, this was a private tour and I was able to get under the cloth and up close and personal with their farm team and these absolutely beautiful and happy plants.

Thank you very much Azuma san from the farm team division for the invitation and experience. It was one of my best in Japan.

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 đź‘Ś





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