I was recently asked to speak before Girl Scout Troop #217 (Bayport-Blue Point) by Troop Leader Amy Prince about The Great South Bay and what they could do to help it. They decided to help the bay by asking people in their community to make a pledge not to use...
The Great South Bay. For hundreds of years, it was a ‘shellfish factory’: oysters, then clams. This shallow lagoon on The South Shore of Long Island provided half of all the hard shell clams eaten in this country. For generations, baymen worked the bay and raised...
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...
