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Science for Self-Reliance: Integrating Medicinal Mushrooms Into Your Life

April 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Free

Join MOFGA and CML for a special talk on mushrooms. In an age of increasing stress and increasing health care costs, people seek healthy self-care practices in order to achieve and maintain optimum health. complement mainstream medicine for improved health maintenance or during those times when our health is compromised by illness, stress or disease. We benefit from generations of traditional healers around the world who have walked before us and utilized mushrooms and plants for their healing potential. Now western science is confirming the value of mushrooms as healing agents. Integrating medicinal mushrooms into our normal diet or as dietary supplements can help us all maintain good health. Join mycologist and author Greg Marley for a medicinal mushroom talk focused on the common Northeastern wild and cultivated mushrooms providing health benefits in our lives and available in the woods or foraged in a good market.  

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About the speaker: Greg Marley has been studying, growing, collecting and cooking wild mushrooms for more than 45 years. He teaches mushroom identification and ecology to hundreds of new foragers as well as consulting in cases of mushroom poisoning. 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). Marley 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.

Disclaimer: It is crucial to obtain a positive mushroom ID before consuming foraged mushrooms. Learn more here.

Details

Date:

April 9

Time:

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Cost:

Free

Venue

Curtis Memorial Library

23 Pleasant St
Brunswick, Maine 04011