Pages tagged Peconic Bay
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Peconic Gold
The Ketcham family's North Fork oyster from a ten-acre shallow bank in Great Peconic Bay. Iron from the Peconic River and algae blooms give the shell its color.
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Peconic Pearls
A North Fork cooperative oyster, seeded from a Southold hatchery run since 2000. Five cents from each one sold goes to work on the Peconic Estuary.
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Robins Island
Peconic Bay oysters from an underwater grant worked since the late 1800s, beside a privately owned island. Medium brine and an iron richness, in Rowan Jacobsen's words.
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Widow's Hole
A North Fork oyster grown in suspended purses off a Greenport house, in a village where 1,500 people once worked in oysters.