Pages tagged Rack And Bag
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.
Cape May
Delaware Bay's modern farmed oyster, grown on intertidal racks from disease-resistant Rutgers seed, with farm rules shaped around a threatened shorebird.
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.
Ninigret Pond
A Charlestown salt pond farmed by several growers, among them Behan Family Farms, whose rack-and-bag oysters never touch the bottom.
Kumiai
A Mexican Pacific oyster from a lagoon on the Baja peninsula, named in honor of the Kumiai people and launched in 2007.
Watch Hill
A Winnapaug Pond oyster grown in off-bottom trays behind a barrier beach, filled and drained by the ocean twice a day.