by Marshall Brown | Jan 21, 2016 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Great Atlantic Shellfish Farms, located in Islip, NY, reached out to Save The Great South Bay because it is launching a new program:   Oyster Gardening.  The program, which consists of four evening classes, then a summer of gardening your own oysters, is...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 14, 2016 | Fixing Habitats
We have now over 2500 people in our Facebook Group Save The Great South Bay. Almost every day, someone posts something essential, informative, and often beautiful. Yesterday, we got something beautiful, maybe the most beautiful place on Long Island. This was not...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 12, 2016 | Bay Friendly Yards, Fixing Habitats
Support The moratorium on fertilizers and pesticides on lawn fertilizers on the South Shore. I say “on The South Shore” because other towns are about to join Sayville in this effort. Would you like to lead a local moratorium in your town and in solidarity?...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 10, 2016 | Fixing Habitats
I read the news over the last two days that the grounds of what was LaSalle Military Academy and before that the then 200+ acre estate was originally owned by Frederick Gilbert Bourne.  Under his stewardship, as the fifth President of The Singer Sewing Machine Company...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 16, 2015 | Fixing Habitats
On Dec 4th, I came back to Sayville to witness what could one day be of at least minor historical note.  Suffolk County was having installed one of its pilot onsite denitrification systems right there Sayville, my hometown.  A lottery was held by the county, and...
by Marshall Brown | Nov 25, 2015 | Bay Friendly Yards, Fixing Habitats
It is truly inspiring to see Sayville, the town I grew up in, and where my mom and one of my four sisters still lives, banding together in the fight to help save The Great South Bay. Â We’ve had a number of requests for literature already; Â All should know that...
