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March 25, 2022- Register and Participate On Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 7pm via Zoom in the Oyster Gardening 101 Public Information Session

Posted on: March 25, 2022 - 3:36pm

Oyster

Help the Harbor: Become an Oyster Gardener!
Information Session
Tuesday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m.

Improve water quality and enhance your local marine habitat when you volunteer alongside friends and neighbors raising oysters to be released to their new home in the harbor.

Did you know that an adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day?!

Community oyster gardening, a quick overview

  • Since 2017, hundreds of volunteers have raised and released nearly 300,000 oysters in and around the Cold Spring Harbor spawner sanctuary.
  • The project is led by the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee, along with Friends of the Bay, the villages of Laurel Hollow and Bayville, the towns of Oyster Bay and Huntington, and Cornell Cooperative Extension.
  • As a participant, you’ll work with fellow volunteers to clean oyster cages and measure a sampling of your oysters each month from July-September.

Get involved in oyster gardening

Get your feet wet and hands muddy when you become a gardener (or a garden sponsor)!

To learn more, get involved, or sponsor a cage, participate in the public information cooperatively hosted by the Bayville, Locust Valley and Oyster Bay/East Norwich public libraries and Friends of the Bay. 

The public information session is being sponsored virtually by our local libraries and in person at Friends of the Bay. You can register at any of the following web sites and a Zoom link will be supplied before the meeting:

Bayville Free Library – www.bayvillefreelibrary.org – 516-628-2765
Locust Valley Library – www.locustvalleylibrary.org – 516-671-1837
Oyster Bay/East Norwich Library – www.oysterbaylibrary.org – 516-922-6453
Friends of the Bay – www.friendsofthebay.org – 516-922-6666

If you are a previous gardener you are welcome to join us for this session but it is intended to inform and engage new gardeners.  

Thank you for your continued support of the North Shore Oyster Gardening program in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor.