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.

We are really excited to be featured in Craft magazine’s story on oyster farming, The Merroir of a Delicacy: Modern Cultivation of the Oyster in their Salty Sweet edition. Craft by Under My Host Magazine feature’s Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid, Nigella Lawson, and of course all kinds of great stuff about oyster farming! This great little […]

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Stephanie Ganz of RVANews has written a really nice piece on Virginia aquaculture industry provides along with a feature of our oyster farm. Thank you Stephanie for shining a light on the hard work we do to benefit the Bay, create jobs, and keep our customers supplied with great oysters!

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A Winter Day at the Oyster Farm

by Michael C. Hild

I drive to what awaits me Cold, water, wind, life Leaving behind the trappings of another world Nature, perhaps danger awaits Shall it catch me today? Shoving off, then pushing out We reach the spot I look, then linger Overboard I go to do the work It greets me like 1,000 needles Hello friend, where […]

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The Chesapeake Bay Oyster is now potentially entering its newest fight in what could prove to be an epic battle against ocean acidification. The crash of the heralded Chesapeake Bay’s oyster fishery has been told countless times. First came mass deforestation during the colonial era which led to enormous sedimentation runoff smothering the bay’s historic […]

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