Hampton Oyster Gardening Seminar

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When

Thursday, June 20, 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT

Where

Bull Island Brewing Company

Phone: (757) 884-8884
758 Settlers Landing Rd
Hampton, VA
23669
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Event Details

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: This event is for new Virginia Oyster Gardeners only.
Registration closes June 18, 2024

Did you know a single adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water in one day? Imagine how clean our waterways could be if we had more oysters; you can help by becoming a volunteer oyster gardener!

Attend a short presentation at one of our events to learn everything you need to know to become a successful oyster gardener. The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes followed by distribution of supplies and oysters.

By becoming an oyster gardener, you will be a "foster parent" to a few hundred baby oysters for a year. You will be responsible for two small cages of spat-on-shell (young oysters) that will be suspended from a dock. Everything that oysters need to survive is available to them in your water system, but it is imperitative that there is good water flow through the openings in the cages. This means that maintaining and cleaning these cages over the course of the year is important to your oysters' well-being! We recommend cleaning at least twice a month in the summer and once a month in the winter. We can't promise that every cleaning session will be easy, but we can promise it will be fun!

Ready to become an Oyster Gardener? Please do the following:

Register as a New Private Gardener

  • Choose this ticket if you will be growing oysters from a privately owned dock. This includes your primary or secondary residence or if you are growing at the property of a friend or family member.
  • Included in a New Private Gardener registration: spat-on-shell oysters, two cages, line, reusable zipties, and one seat in the seminar.

Register as a New Public Gardener

  • Choose this ticket if you do not have waterfront access to suspend a cage and need CBF to locate a convenient, public location for you. CBF has lots of great partnerships with marinas, public parks, etc. to allow us to give waterfront access to our public oyster gardeners.
  • Included in a New Public Gardener registration: spat-on-shell oysters, two cages, line, resuable zipties, one seat in the seminar, access to a public growing location.

Register for Listen and Learn

  • Choose this ticket if you are not yet ready to commit to purchasing oysters to grow this season, but want to learn more about oyster gardening.
  • If at the end of the seminar you decide you would like to participate in this year's season, please make sure to bring a check or exact change of $35, as we cannot accept credit cards at our events.
  • Included in Listen and Learn registration: one seat in the seminar.

If you are bringing anyone with you to the seminar, please register them under Guest.

Our presentation spaces have a limited capacity, so we need to know how many people are attending.

During registration, you will be required to enter the latitude and longitude of your oyster gardening location. Follow these simple instructions to find that information on Google Maps:

On your computer

  1. Open Google Maps (maps.google.com).
  2. Enter the address of your oyster gardening location in the search field.
  3. Right-click on the location. This will open a pop-up window. You will find your latitude and longitude in decimal format at the top. For example, 39.04660, -76.47935. The first number is your latitude. The second number is your longitude.
  4. During registration, there will be one field for latitude and one field for longitude.
On the Google Maps mobile app
  1. Enter the address of your oyster gardening location in the search field.
  2. When the location comes up, press your finger on the location. The latitude and longitude will come up in the search field, but abbreviated.
  3. Press your finger on the search field and it will show the complete data.

Your registration includes periodic email updates from CBF. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking "Unsubscribe" at the bottom of any email you received from us.

Thanks to friends and supporters of CBF we have funds available to fully or partially cover some registration costs. Please reach out to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if participation in this volunteer activity is cost prohibitive.

Event Registration

Registration Type Fee
New Private Gardener
Choose this ticket if you will be growing oysters from a privately owned dock. This includes your primary or secondary residence or if you are growing at the property of a friend or family member.
$35.00
New Public Gardener
Choose this ticket if you do not have waterfront access to suspend a cage and need CBF to locate a convenient, public location for you. CBF has lots of great partnerships with marinas, public parks, etc. to allow us to give waterfront access to our public
$35.00
Listen and Learn
Choose this ticket if you are not yet ready to commit to purchasing oysters to grow this season, but want to learn more about oyster gardening.
Free
Guest
Please reserve space in the Seminar for any guests you are bringing with you.
Free