“Foraging for Edible Mushrooms: Starting with a Foolproof Few for Your Area”
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library presents Greg Marley, Thursday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to all.
Collecting and eating wild mushrooms is an intimidating prospect for the beginner. There are so many different mushrooms and some of them are devilishly difficult to tell apart. Some of them are poisonous; a few are dangerously toxic. But there are a number of common mushrooms that are great edibles, easily identified and without toxic lookalikes.
"These Foolproof mushrooms may provide you with all the mushrooms you ever want," said a news release.
Join mushrooming author and teacher Greg Marley for a talk devoted to some common “foolproof” mushrooms found in the Northeastern US. This talk will be especially valuable for someone who is just starting out or wants to learn mushrooming.
Greg Marley has been studying, growing, collecting and cooking wild mushrooms for 50 years. He teaches mushroom identification and ecology to hundreds of new foragers as well as consulting in cases of mushroom poisoning.
Marley 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). Marley lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine.
This event will take place in the Community Room and will be livestreamed via Zoom; the Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union St. For more information or for Zoom links, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov by 4 p.m. on February 13.
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Rockland Public Library
80 Union St
Rockland, ME 04841
United States