Yellow Farmhouse Education Center hosted The Past, Present and Future of Oysters in American Coastal Cuisine, a virtual conversation with Ben ‘Moody’ Harney the founder of Mother Shuckers.
Harney starts his presentation at the very beginning, with how oysters biologically evolved and their cultural significance to coastal Indigenous tribes along the eastern coastline. He dives into the story that inspired his business - Thomas Downing, "the Oyster King of New York", the son of freed slaves who peddled oysters on Wall Street in the late 1800s, and went on to open one of the most successful oyster restaurants of his time.
Mother Shuckers donates all their shells to the Billion Oyster Project, an initiative to restore New York Harbor by 2035.
View the presentation HERE.
