Taught by Mycologist Greg Marley, this day-long class is devoted to building the skills to identify common mushrooms and begin a lifetime of wild mushrooming. The course will combine lectures and outdoor experience to look at identification features, ecology, and the seasonal occurrence of mushrooms.

We will look at edible and common poisonous mushrooms and may end the day by cooking some of the mushrooms we find. The focus will be learning a few common edible and medicinal mushrooms and building skills for ongoing identification. Come prepared for a hike and to have a fun learning day. Participants should bring fresh specimens of mushrooms from their property.

Event Cost: $60 for RLHT members | $75 for non-members.

Participants must register: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/eammw/event/rfffwmaiwc/

Greg Marley has collected, studied, ate, grew, and taught mushrooms for over 45 years. Marley has spread his love of mushrooms to hundreds through walks, talks, and classes held across New England over the past 20 years. He is the founder of Mushrooms for Health, a small company providing medicinal mushroom education and products made with Maine medicinal mushrooms. Marley is the author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi (Downeast Books, 2009); Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares; The Love Lore and Mystic of Mushrooms (Chelsea Green, 2010). As a volunteer mushroom identification consultant to Poison Centers across New England since 2001, Marley provides expertise in mushroom poisoning cases. He is a frequent lecturer to college groups and a mushrooming foray faculty member.