Float Building Workshops
NEXT Build Your Own (BYO) Oyster Float Workshop
(must be a TOGA Member, or join now!)
10/11/2025 Sat. 10AM – 1PM
Camp Kekoka, 1083 Boys Camp Rd, Kilmarnock
Learn how to build devices for oyster gardening! Flip floats and Taylor floats and spat cages and more!! TOGA members get a $25 discount on up to 3 floats you build. Learn more below.
Preorder so materials are ready (required by 10/1) see Fall Float and Spat Sale.
Volunteer for TOGA and join a Thursday am Volunteer Float Build Day to get some experience and figure out what devices you want. Email Jim for more.
Please email Jim before attending
Coordinator: Jim Dall, jimd@togaboard.org
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TOGA conducts Float Build Workshops several times a year - in preparation for our float sales - and workshops are typically held in spring and early fall at Camp Kekoka, 1083 Boys Camp Rd, Kilmarnock, VA. The floats and devices produced not only benefit oyster gardeners with up-to-date equipment, but also add to our annual contributions to the TOGA/VIMS Student Endowment and other TOGA causes like rebuilding the Madison Boyd Memorial Pier for our learning oyster garden and restoration reef.
The workshops are also opportunities for anyone to learn to build floats, get to know other oyster gardeners and learn new things about oysters and the Bay. And if you want to build your own float or cage, you get a discount. Most find this experience fun and rewarding.
The workshops will be announced in our newsletters, schedule and calendar.
If you have questions about our upcoming workshops and float sales, contact us.
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