Selecting the right substrate is key to growing oyster mushrooms. They grow well on straw, sawdust, or coffee grounds. Make ...

Fresh-picked mushrooms add so much flavor to pizza, pasta, and more. Plus, they're easy to grow indoors. Reviewed by Sylvia ...

Along shorelines throughout Tampa Bay, you've probably seen them: hunks of concrete shaped like overturned pots dotted with holes, mingling with mesh bags of shells. Why it matters: These ...

Austin Docter has worked at a shellfish plant in Shelton, Wash., for 18 years and has a lot of words to describe what he calls the flavor profiles of oysters: Minerally. Metallic-y. Sweet. Buttery.

When oyster farmer Luke Saindon went looking for a place to grow shellfish in Maine, he knew that picking the wrong patch of water could sink the farm before it began. So Saindon did something oyster ...

Canoe Lagoon oysters ready to be shipped to processing plant in Wrangell on April 27, 2025. A charter cabin cruiser's engine quiets down on the approach to Canoe Lagoon Oyster Farm about an hour and a ...

Researchers at UNC Wilmington are working to support North Carolina's growing shellfish industry. Oyster populations have declined due to unsustainable harvesting, development, and disease. Scientists ...

Over the years, the Chesapeake Bay’s native oyster population largely has disappeared because of over-harvesting and disease. In the past decade, however, a new oyster aquaculture movement has taken ...

Elizabeth Robinson enters a cool, damp room with fluorescent lights and dozens of large plastic bags holding liquid ranging from pastel yellow to dark rust. It's not the typical image associated with ...

While it's not exactly "build it and they will come," nature-based shoreline erosion-control structures such as living shorelines offer increased protection when they successfully attract and grow ...