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Recycle Your Oysters

By Brittany Davis|2022-08-17T15:42:50+00:00September 26th, 2022|Blog|0 Comments

If you walk into a seafood restaurant in Coastal Alabama, it’s almost guaranteed that you will see oysters on the menu. It would be a shame if all those shells ended up being wasted, right? Luckily, that is not the case thanks to the Alabama Coastal Foundation. The Alabama Coastal Foundation has created an Oyster Shell Recycling Program with participating restaurants along the beach. The shells are collected and then placed outside for six months to cure. The advisory committee [...]

Five interesting facts about the glorious oyster

By lofadmin|2021-08-17T13:34:32+00:00August 5th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

Each year, August 5 is the day to celebrate everyone’s favorite briny bivalve mollusk: the oyster. Here on the Alabama Gulf Coast, we celebrate these delicacies every day. How much do you know about oysters? One oyster can filter 1.3 gallons of water per hour through their gills. They feed on organisms, such as plankton, during the process. Oysters have been eaten by humans for thousands of years. Oysters change their gender during their lives. They all start off as males and most change to female by [...]

It’s okay to eat oysters in the summer

By lofadmin|2021-03-24T18:17:07+00:00April 22nd, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

There’s no “R” in May, so can we eat raw oysters? Yes, you can eat raw oysters in the summer. The adage of “R” months can be traced all the way back to 1599. According to a New York Times article, an English cookbook warned people not to eat oysters in the summer months. That was probably a really good idea a few hundred years ago. In modern times, though, as long as the oysters are grown in healthy waters [...]