ATTENTION HISTORY BUFFS, OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS, NATURE LOVERS, AND LANDOWNERS. Local interpretive naturalist Bob Kennemer is presenting a 90 minute program on The HISTORY OF EDIBLE, MEDICINAL, USEFUL, AND DANGEROUS WILD PLANTS OF SPANISH PEAKS COUNTRY. Indigenous peoples, early Spanish, and European settlers relied on these plants. Even after Francisco Fort was becoming more settled and the people more stationary, wild plants played an active role in their everyday life.

Huerfano County and south/central Colorado are home to hundreds of important and useful wild plants. This program will teach you about many of them, along with tips on how to ID plants, tools and equipment needed, and ethical foraging methods. Handouts on suggested books and the Dos and Don'ts of foraging will be available.

Bob has more than 40 years experience in this subject. He has been living, teaching, and guiding in Huerfano County for 38 of those years. Bob majored in Environmental Science and Environmental/Outdoor Education at the University of Denver and is a graduate of the prestigious National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), where he became a certified outdoor Leader.

The program will be held at the La Veta Public Library at 310 S. Main Street, in La Veta, You will: learn a lot, have fun, and be amazed!!