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Laura and I are not avid campers by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, we have never camped together before. But we had a strong urge to spend the night at The Neck. When Laura bought me a goose down sleeping bag for Christmas along with some camping supplies, we had what we needed. […]
When I tell friends that I am the proud owner of an Oyster Hoister I get two questions: “What the heck is an oyster hoister and why on earth would anyone need one?” Let me explain. When we first started our oyster farm, we had no boat. We did however have a very large dock […]
We have accumulated an enormous amount of oyster supplies and tools in the start up of our aquaculture farm at Anderson’s Neck. I needed a place to keep all this stuff. I was tired of hauling what I needed at the farm out of the crawl space of our house. Every trip we had to […]
Shortly after our return from the Outer Banks, I drove down to The Neck after work to accept a delivery of more oyster cages. The deliveryman, Jon, had just driven out and back from the Eastern Shore in one day. Jon was a veteran of the oyster business and it was his first trip to […]
When I decided to purchase my first set of oyster seed in the summer of 2011, I had none of our farming logistics figured out. However, I didn’t want to wait a full year for the next season to plant our first vintage. I say this especially since it takes the oysters a full 18-24 […]
As many of you know, when I get ideas in my head, they have a tendency to become all consuming endeavors. I pursue these little thought bubbles with fanatical focus until they are fully explored and figured out in all their complex beauty and uniqueness. The story of our oyster farm is no different. When […]
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