If you want to check if your permit is current, this link will allow you to check on a map. Check Oyster Garden Permits
under Habitat Permits and look for a green pin at your location. Or contact .
Join Shelley Katsuki for a virtual tour of VIMS' Kauffman Aquaculture Center.
Also, VIMS Multimedia
If you order from Amazon, Amazon will make a contribution to TOGA. When you login at , you can enter Tidewater Oyster Gardener Association as your charity. Click below to start.
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Learn about the
Chesapeake Oyster Alliance
An interesting story about Skipjacks, oysters and Smith Island narrated by Walter Cronkite (1965). Discovered by Brian Wood. Click here.
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway,
Quick Links
VA Oyster Gardening Guide- The current guide is obsolete and being revised. No link.
TOGA Displays, click here
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