Pages tagged Barnstable Harbor
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Barnstable Harbor
Cape Cod sand flats opened to farming in the mid-1990s. By 2010 about 52 town grants worked 100 acres, on ten-foot tides that flush the harbor twice a day.
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Moon Shoal
A boat-access-only farm in Barnstable Harbor's Great Marsh, grown at low density and hand-harvested. Sweeter than most Cape oysters, say the growers.
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Wianno
A Barnstable oyster grown two ways: bottom-planted in West Bay near Osterville for shell strength, and caged off the bottom in Barnstable Harbor.