#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

Make This Simple Mushroom Switch for the Most Flavor in Any Recipe

Credit: Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek I love wild mushrooms so much that I’ve hunted for morels after local wildfires, foraged for oyster mushrooms and shaggy manes along island trails on the W…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #buttonmushrooms #creminimushrooms #oystermushrooms #Recipes #wildmushrooms
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2569215/make-this-simple-mushroom-switch-for-the-most-flavor-in-any-recipe/

Backyard white oyster #mushrooms colony.

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⭐️JANUARY SALE⭐️
🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you so much!
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🌧️ Rain + Mushrooms = Magic 🍄
Fungal threads (mycelium) are everywhere—in soil, leaves, and wood—quietly forming tiny “buttons” beneath the surface. Out of sight, they wait for the right moment.

When rain soaks the ground, the buttons swell with moisture and push up through the forest floor. Small mushrooms can appear in a day; larger ones take a few. Made mostly of water, they respond fast—turning the forest floor into a stage for one of nature’s quickest transformations.

Look low and slow after the rain. Under leaves, at the base of logs, or beneath fallen bark, the forest’s hidden network may be showing off its latest creations.

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