Third day of rain in the dryest state on the dryest continenent on earth...

... Maybe for the first time in 2 years, there will be time for some #mushroomforaging !

#BrunswickME - Science for #SelfReliance: Integrating #MedicinalMushrooms into your Life

In-Person
Thursday, April 9, 2026
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library

For Adults and Seniors

"Join #MOFGA and #CurtisMemorialLibrary 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.

#GregMarley has been studying, growing, collecting and cooking #WildMushrooms for more than 45 years. He teaches #MushroomIdentification 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."

Source:
https://curtislibrary.libcal.com/event/15947333

#SolarPunkSunday #MushroomForaging #MushroomIdentification #Mushrooms #SpendTimeInNature #HealingWithNature #LibrariesRule #MaineEvents

Science for Self-Reliance: Integrating Medicinal Mushrooms into your Life

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...

LibCal

ALS, the muscle wasting disease of ice bucket challenge fame, is sometimes genetic, sometimes sporadic, but sometimes pops up in clusters. One such cluster in a little skiing village in France unnerved the local GP - and was eventually pinned on false morel mushrooms.

https://archive.is/bJMoo

#AmyotrophicLateralSclerosis #LouGehrigsDisease #MushroomForaging #FalseMorels #Foraging #TheAtlanticMagazine

I've been doing some #UrbanForaging recently, but I've had no plans of getting into #MushroomForaging due to the higher stress of getting poisoned, but now a tree down the block appears to have sprouted a Chicken of the Woods right at head height next to the sidewalk. Is that really what this is?
Free Weekly #Puzzle! This time it's a #sudoku with a #vermont #mushroomforaging theme! But first, you'll need to...join our #cozycommunity to gain access! → skool.com/cozy

#PortlandME - Introduction to #WildMushrooms

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
$30 per person

Evergreen Cemetery (Duck Pond Parking), Evergreen Cemetery Trail, Portland, ME, USA

"For beginners! We'll cover the bare-bones basics of wild mushroom identification, and then venture on a short foray to see what's available."

To register:
https://www.rewildmaine.org/events/introduction-to-wild-mushrooms-22

#SolarPunkSunday
#Foraging #MushroomForaging #MushroomIdentification #Nature #MaineEvents #RewildMaine

Introduction to Wild Mushrooms | Rewild Maine

For beginners! We'll cover the bare-bones basics of wild mushroom identification, and then venture on a short foray to see what's available.

Rewild Maine
[38c3] SearchClub Meet Up

Does it concern you that your search results are haunted by hallucinating LLMs? SearchClub is a new community for people who are interested in finding solutions to this and other search quality problems like SEO spam, content farms and malvertisin...

38c3

Got a minute? #SearchClub would love to get your feedback on some potential "easy starter projects" to help reclaim search for the searcher - and any other ideas you'd like to share.

Check out the ChaosPad, and let us know what you think: https://pads.ccc.de/rNBu09Mr2M. Perhaps you'd like to get involved? Even better!  

#38C3 #CCC #Search #Discovery #SearchEngines #LLM #LLMs #GenAI #MushroomForaging #PizzaGlue #Mwmbl #SearXNG #Blocklists #uBlock #uBlockOrigin #uBlacklist

ChaosPad V1.1: rNBu09Mr2M

In case you missed my #38C3 talk "Waiter, There's an LLM In My Search!", the video has now been published at https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-waiter-there-s-an-llm-in-my-search

And keep on reading this 🧵 for more on Search Survival Strategies for 2025 and beyond...

 

#Search #Discovery #SearchClub #Federation #CCC #LLM #LLMs #AI #GenAI #PizzaGlue #MushroomForaging

Waiter, There's An LLM In My Search!

media.ccc.de

Morchella esculenta, a morel, found at the base of a fallen elm tree. Woo, morel season!

#morels
#morelmushrooms
#Morelstodon
#mushrooms
#mushroomforaging