Filtration Station

Oysters provide natural habitat for hundreds of aquatic species including both micro and macro invertebrates making them a vital part of our local estuaries. Our farm is located in South River, NC: an approximately 8 mile long tidal estuary and tributary of the Neuse River which flows into the Pamlico Sound. On our farm, you'll find thousands of juvenile sucker fish and crustaceans as well as shrimp and fish that chase them! These smaller species are a vital food source for other animals. It's always exciting for us to be hooking bags and watch an Atlantic stingray swim by or an osprey dive right by the boat. Farming oysters is a sustainable way to grow and harvest food for us humans without removing habitat from these species. Not to mention the fact that each adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day. For reference, we currently have around 800,000 oysters on our South River lease. That means our farm has the potential to filter up to 40 million gallons of water a day! Oysters are just as influential as they are delicious, and we hope you'll continue to support fresh, local, family-owned seafood as well as the water it grows in.

A couple of blue crabs that were hiding in a bag of oysters on our South River lease. Crabs love oysters almost as much as we do and often snack on our product without even offering to pay! We return them to the river and encourage them to find some wild caught oysters to munch on instead,