"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first that is still to come."
Leonardo da Vinci
The San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the West Coast of the U.S. where fresh water from the Central
Valley mixes with the salt water of the Pacific. Crabs, clams, fish and birds live in its deepwater channels, marshes and tidelands.
Farming on the Half Shell An Oyster Forum
This weekend, I am taking a trip to Tomales Bay. Not just to enjoy the bucolic hills of West Marin, but also to join a panel of highly enthusiastic and esteemed oyster aficionados to talk about the future of shellfish farms. Why should people care about tiny underwater creatures like oysters? Read more...
Learning on the Half-Shell The Watershed Project Featured on Grist.org
The Watershed Project's Living Shoreline Initiative and our partner Pickleweed Point Oyster Farm were recently featured on the online environmental news website Grist.org. Click here to read the article. 
Oyster Farmer for a Day Students Learn about Aquaculture at Pickleweed Point
On April 7th, Pickleweed Point's oysters experienced some curious conditions: 50 environmental science high school students. This field trip was the culmination of the five-visit Wild! Oysters program for high school students, part of the Living Shoreline Initiative. Read more...
Grow (and Eat) Your Own Oysters A Conversation with a Pickleweed Point Oyster Farmer
The Watershed Project's Executive Director Linda Hunter recently made a trip out to Tomales Bay to visit our newest fiscally sponsored project: The Pickleweed Point Community Oyster Farm, directed by local Aquaculturist Luc Chamberland. Read more...