Pages tagged Florida
Varieties
Cypress Point
Farmed Gulf oysters from Oyster Bay at Spring Creek, Florida, sold as Little Honeys. Jody Houck, a retired engineer, and her husband Dewey started in 2019.
Environment & Sustainability
Rebuilt Oyster Reefs, Measured
Tred Avon, Pamlico Sound, Tampa Bay and the Indian River Lagoon: four reef-building projects in the US, what each one built, and what its own monitoring found.
Culture
What Ancient Oyster Heaps Reveal
A Florida mound of 20 to 30 million oysters, harvests that lasted millennia, and a parasite snail that shows people once skipped summer oysters.
Varieties
Apalachicola
Florida's great tonged oyster, lost in the 2012 collapse after years of low river flow. A two-month season returned in 2026 on about 500 acres.