Lecturer - Robert Peabody

• 300 YEARS OF WILD FOOD FORAGING
  Join expert forager and mycologist Robert H. Peabody as he provides an illustrative storytelling about 17th thru 19th century hunting and gathering and their importance to early Hunterdon County settlers. After Mr. Peabody's tales, join chef and mycologist Bob Hosh on a "show and tell" walk through one of Hunterdon County's wild, open spaces to forage for the foods of our foregathers. Bob Hosh grew up in rural Cajun Louisiana were huntering and gatherering was an important part of his family's lifestyle. Bob lived in Frenchtown for many years. At the moment he lives in Somerset.  Keep your Fast Food and your Slow Food Movement -- this is the ultimate experience in what the first settlers and Revolutionary War Heroes in Hunterdon might have eaten.
  June 8th - 2pm to 4pm

Robert Peabody is a noted mycologist.  He has been a member of the Mycological Society of America since 1987 and is the Treasurer and Newsletter Editor of the New Jersey Mycological Association.  Bob has published both articles about and photographs of fungi.  He is the sponsor of the annual "Bob Peabody Wild Foods Foray" and a frequent speaker at the annual September Fungus Fest at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum.  Bob has been the Holland Township Historian for many years and is the author of "The Early Settlers of Holland Township" published in 2012.