Oyster Blog

Oysters are hardcore about sticking together. When clusters come in off the beach we try to break them apart into singles, but it's generally impossible to do so without damaging the oysters. Now scientists at Purdue University have figured out exactly why...

A couple of weeks ago we put the beginning touches on our very first tumble farm.                 The tumble farm is an energy-friendly oyster pruning device. We spend our days working around the tide,...

By Annie

We caught this oyster spawn event just at the right moment... 15 minutes later and the spawn was gone, dispersed by the currents.

Barnacles with a sense of humor took it upon themselves to decorate someone's lost pair of pliers to look like a sea monster: And while on a beach walk today we discovered a particularly disgusting, previously unknown (to us), and...

For the past several years oyster farmers in France have seen their oyster beds decimated by a new, more virulent strain of oyster herpes. The virus stays dormant until water temperatures get above 61 degrees Fahrenheit and then attacks oysters...

Whose idea was it to designate August 5th National Oyster Day? Is there an Australian prankster embedded in the Bureau of Obscure Food Holidays who's sabotaging our ability to truly celebrate our nation's most valuable bivalve? If you haven't already...

It was a gorgeous sunny and clear day, not too hot, and the tide was low at 1 pm. The Brothers. Looking south down the canal. Judith, Sarah, Raquel, and Dave spent the day breaking apart bags of last year's...

River project, the wide view. Ron Gold Forestry is assembling the log jam, and they are working super fast in order to complete the project before the salmon start running in mid-August. This morning they piled all the ecology blocks...

It really pays to do business with girl scouts. We love cookies. Last week a group of girls from Camp Robbinswold came down to tour the oyster farm and exclaim over the geoduck. This week we received the thank you...