Penny's Large Oysters from Yarmouth, ME

Harvest location: Broad Cove, Yarmouth, ME

How they’re grown: These are tried and true bottom grown Maine oysters. The crop takes 3-4 years from nursery-to-harvest when they are dragged up for harvest. Their farm is located in Broad Cove, a shallow and wide cove in the middle of Casco Bay with productive clam and mussel beds. The bottom is made up of firm mud and shell hash [substrate made up of broken and crushed shells], which when paired with low density planting results in large well shaped oysters.

Why they’re unique: John is a Duxbury native who first learned how to shuck oysters at the Winsor House [Island Creek's hospitality flagship across the street from the farm in Duxbury]!

Story: In 2016, after a few years working as an ocean engineer post-college, John returned to his hometown of Duxbury where he got his feet wet in the oyster farming biz. Soon after running that farm, he moved to his now home state of Maine to manage the farm at Glidden Point. There are enough challenges to solve on an oyster farm to keep it interesting, and enough familiar skills working on the water to make it fun - John's dad is a boat builder and he grew up on the water, and has always searched for a way to be closer to it - ideally on top of it. The complexities of and the strategy behind growing a truly great oyster appealed to his engineering brain. John's wife, Beatrice, started farming in 2020 when she moved to Maine and joined John at Glidden Point before they started their own farm together later that year.

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