Greg Marley

Greg Marley has a passion for mushrooms that dates to 1971, the year he left his native New Mexico and spent the summer in the verdant woods of central New York. Since then, he has become an avid student and teacher of mycology, as well as a mushroom identification consultant to the Northern New England Poison Control Center and owner of Mushrooms for Health, a company that provides education and products made with Maine medicinal mushrooms. Marley is the author of Mushrooms for Health: Medical Secrets of Northeastern Fungi. He lives and mushrooms in Rockland, Maine.

Greg's Upcoming Events

• Greg Marley at NOFA-NH Conference
  
  NOFA-NH Winter Conference, Kingston NH
  March 3, 2012, 12:00 pm

  NOFA New Hampshire Winter Conference: Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms; Rewards and Potential Pitfalls Greg will present a 90 minute introduction to the best edible and medicinal mushrooms in New England. Guidelines will be presented on ways to learn mushrooms and recommendations for finding and using edible and medicinal mushrooms will be reviewed. No prior mushrooming experience is required. A workshop of the Northeast Organic Farmers Assoc. Winter Conference. Fee for the day. More information at http://www.nofanh.org/winterConference • NOFA New Hampshire Winter Conference: Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms; Rewards and Potential Pitfalls • Map to Sanborn Regional High School

• Greg Marley at Camden Public Library
  
  55 Main Street, , Camden ME 04843
  March 17, 2012, 12:00 pm

  Foraging and Use of Medicinal Mushrooms: A Maine Mycological Assoc. Winter Lecture Greg presents on Medicinal Mushrooms. This slide-supported talk will review the medicinal mushrooms in the Northeast, the research supporting their use, and ways to integrate them into your life. Learn why America is just catching up with much of the rest of the world on integrating mushrooms into our regime of health support. Join us for some Chaga Chai and cookies after the talk. Free and open to the public. • Foraging and Use of Medicinal Mushrooms: A Maine Mycological Assoc. Winter Lecture • Map to Jean Picker Room; Camden Public Library

• Greg Marley at Nezinscot Farm
  
  Nezinscot Farm, Turner ME
  July 15, 2012, 9:00 am

  Mushroom Identification and Foraging in Maine This full day workshop is held in Turner, Maine at thriving Nezinscot farm near the banks of the Androscoggin River. Focus on building identification skills for edible and medicinal mushrooms. Afternoon will be spent in the field collecting and identifying mushrooms. Fee: $60.00 Lunch available. 225-3231 for registration

• Greg Marley at Fields Pond Audubon Center
  
  Fields Pond Audubon Center, Bangor ME
  July 21, 2012, 9:00 am

  Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms Field's Pond, near Bangor has been the site of mushroom identification workshops for 6 years. We will be back for a day spent building the skills and confidence to identify the common mushrooms in Maine. Focus on edible species and this workshop will feature cooking with the edible species we collect. Fee Call 989-2591 for registration • Foraging for Edile and Medicinal Mushrooms • Map to Fields Pond Audubon Center

• Greg Marley at Cobscook Community Learning Center
  
  Commissary Point Road , East Central Washington ME 04652
  July 28, 2012, 12:00 pm

  Mushroom Identification for the Forger Come way Downeast to Lubec and join us for this fun class on mushroom identification in the peak of the summer season. No experience necessary; learn the language of mushrooming and experience collection of mushrooms in the Downeast woods. A Cobscook Community Learning Center, 733-2233 for more information. Prior registration needed. • Mushroom Identification for the Forger • Map to The Cobscook Community Learning Center

• Greg Marley at National History Seminar
  
  The Humboldt Field Research Institute, Steuben ME
  July 29, 2012, 12:00 pm

  Think of this as a 5 day mushroom identifica- tion camp for adults who find a week of mushrooming to be a vacation well worth pursuing. This is serious mushroom identification course, but without a strong reli- ance on microscope use. Covering edible, medicinal and poisonous mushrooms, ecology, responsible foraging... One of the summer Natural History Seminar of- ferings At The Humboldt Field Research Institute at Eagle Hill north of Aca- dia National Park in Downeast Maine. Co taught: Greg A. Marley and Mi- chaeline Mulvey More information and registration at www.eaglehill.us or contact Greg at mushroom@midcoast.com