As people build their knowledge and skills to forage and use wild edible and medicinal mushrooms, it is natural to want add more mushrooms to your list.  As you move beyond the Foolproof Few, the common, easily-identified mushrooms, it becomes even more important to have guidance on choosing wisely and avoiding toxic mistakes. This talk seeks to offer a list of great mushrooms by filtering the recommendations through answering this question so often posed to me: “What is your favorite mushroom?”. The talk will focus on Maine and New England mushrooms. 

Biography:  Greg Marley has been studying, growing, collecting, cooking and eating wild mushrooms for 50 years.  He is a frequent speaker and lecturer and teaches mushroom identification and ecology to hundreds of new foragers.  For more than 2 decades he has consulted in cases of mushroom poisoning across New England.  Greg is the author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi (2009) and Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, The Love Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms (2010). He lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine.  When not mushrooming he works as a mental health trainer and consultant in suicide prevention and response after a loss.

This talk will take place in the Abbott Room with a Zoom option. Register for the Zoom link here.