The Oyster Blog

The official Anderson's Neck blog with progress updates on our mission to Save the Bay One Oyster at a Time. We will notify you when we post new articles if you Join Our Mailing List.

New Year’s at The Neck

by Michael C. Hild

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.  […]

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The Oyster Hoister

by Michael C. Hild

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 […]

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A Trip Through Virginia’s Vietnam

by Michael C. Hild

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 […]

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Hurricane Irene

by Michael C. Hild

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 […]

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The First Planting

by Michael C. Hild

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 […]

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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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