Greg Marley has been pursuing his personal passion for mushrooms for over 40 years. Through numerous walks and talks and classes on mushroom identification and the use of medicinal mushrooms, he shares this passion with others. Over the years he has informed and mentored many hundreds of new mushroomers. His interests and expertise include foraging, mushroom cultivation, collecting and cooking wild species, the ecology of mushrooms in our forests and the use of medicinal mushrooms. Marley is a volunteer mushroom identification consultant to the Poison Centers of New England and the founder of Mushrooms for Health, a company offering medicinal mushroom supplements and education. The author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeast Fungi (2009) and Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares; The Love Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms (2010), Marley lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine.

Greg's books will be available for sale and signing, as well as a limited selection of his medicinal mushroom products. This free event is sponsored by the Library and the Belfast Co-op. The Belfast Free Library is located at 106 High Street in downtown Belfast.

For more information about this event, call the Belfast Free Library at (207) 338-3884 extension 10.