Pages tagged California
Tomales Bay
The bay of California's oldest shellfish farm, Tomales Bay Oyster Company, working at Marshall since 1909: 218 acres and over a million Pacific oysters a year.
Oyster Names Without Farms
Three oyster names with no oysters behind them: a California lagoon farm closed in 2024, a royal estate's farm closed in 2017, and a New Zealand bay cleared to stop a parasite.
Drakes Bay (Archival)
Once one of California's largest oyster farms, inside a national seashore. It closed at the end of 2014 after a long fight over wilderness. No Drakes Bay oysters exist today.
Humboldt Bay
California's biggest oyster bay, where Kumamotos bring in most of the money and a third of sales are seed for other farms. Almost 10 million oysters a year.
Post-Harvest Processed Oysters
A treated raw oyster is safer, and often already shucked and no longer alive. The science of high pressure processing, and what it does and does not change.
Tomales Bay, California
An oyster bar and a take-away farm stand on a narrow bay in Marin County, where California's oldest oyster farm sits a few minutes from one of its most famous.
Hog Island Sweetwater
The Pacific oyster from Hog Island's Tomales Bay farm, which grew from a five-acre lease in 1983 to 160 acres and several oyster bars.