This is your last opportunity to get your hands dirty with oyster shell, sand, and cement! Come join us in restoring native oysters to San Francisco Bay. Every reef ball we make is another opportunity for thousands of native oysters to attach and call home. Be a part of our community oyster reef and learn more about the process and how oyster restoration will lead to other benefits in our ecosystem. We need the energy and enthusiasm of our volunteers to make this reef a reality. The workdays involve mixing, lifting, and pouring the BayCrete we make. If you're interested in volunteering, …
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Why and How to Make an Oyster Film | An Interview with Emily Driscoll
In preparation for our exciting, upcoming movie event, Executive Director Linda Hunter chatted with Emily V. Driscoll, the director of Shellshocked: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves. Shellshocked is a riveting documentary detailing the demise of oyster reefs in New York harbor, and the current movement to revive their decreased populations. What inspired you to make the movie, Shellshocked? Sludge, toxic waste and living oysters is what I remember reading. It didn't seem possible or right. It was 2007 and I was reading about Katie Mosher Smith's efforts to put living oysters into Brooklyn's …
…And Now for the Good News! | Bay Area is Flourishing
Dragged down by the never-ending barrage of negative news? Local action is the antidote to global bad news. With your help, we've been tackling global issues right here in the Bay Area with hands-on education and volunteer stewardship programs. The following are just a few of the steps we are taking to make the Bay Area a more beautiful and healthy place to live. Earth Day Block Party Healthy Watersheds Program Coastal Cleanup is the largest cleanup day of the year, but it isn't the only one. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, The Watershed Project organized more than 400 volunteers …
The Watershed Project Goes to Summer School | Wild! Oysters Program Hits Mission High
By Chris Lim Dolores Park. Mexican food. Colorful Murals. Olympia oysters? The first three are synonymous with San Francisco's Mission District. Olympia oysters on the other hand are not… yet. The Living Shoreline Initiative is proud to partner with Mission High School, Mission Graduates, and the San Francisco Unified School District to provide our high school native oyster curriculum, Wild! Oysters, to summer school students. This is our first opportunity to provide Wild! Oysters during the summer. Mission High School students needing to make up biology credits participated in the …
Slurpin’ and Sippin’ | Third Annual Bubbles & Bivalves a Wonderful Celebration
By Linda Hunter "I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." -Zora Neale Hurston People are often seduced by oysters. And so was the case at The Watershed Project's third annual Bubbles & Bivalves event to support our Living Shoreline Program-- a program that celebrates the humble and wondrous native oysters as the unique ecosystem engineers that they are. Oysters have the ability to transform drab and murky Bay waters into a veritable rainforest-- a cornucopia of life for critters of all shapes and sizes. They provide safe hiding and dining places for salmon, …
Come Celebrate the Humble and Wondrous Oyster | A Personal Invitation to Bubbles & Bivalves
By Executive Director, Linda Hunter As sunlight dances on the water of the San Francisco Bay, a solitary Great Egret stands in the shallow waters waiting for the tide to fall. The gentle lapping of the waves mimics the sound of a heartbeat creating an effect that makes the shoreline itself seem alive. Beneath the surface of the water, however, lies a stunning ecosystem that is just as majestic, one that is essential to the health of the entire bay, but is often ignored and needs our help. Please join us in celebrating the wondrous world of oysters at Bubbles & Bivalves, a fundraising …
Ostreaphiles Rejoice | Oyster Event Draws Vibrant Crowd
By Linda Hunter A vibrant mix of Bay Area foodies, oyster lovers and environmentalists came together last Thursday to celebrate our local terroir at The Watershed Project's second annual celebration of the humble oyster, Bubbles & Bivalves. Guests enjoyed scrumptious fare from some of the City's finest restaurants, local wineries, breweries and chocolatiers. We were proud to host James Beard Award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen who, literally, wrote the book on oysters. Rowan's A Geography of Oysters, his website and blog are considered de rigueur for restaurants and bivalve aficionados …
Celebrate Our Local Terroir | Famed Oyster Author to Speak at Bubbles & Bivalves
The Watershed Project welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen to our second annual event, Bubbles & Bivalves, a celebration of native oyster restoration. To give you a taste of Rowan's inimitable style, we've excerpted some of our favorites passages from his books. From The Living Shore by Rowan Jacobsen: "When the full moon hauls back the waters, they emerge, a glittering band along the shore, like doubloons washed up from the wreck of a Spanish galleon. They close their shells tight and, for a few hours, become land. Bears slip out of the cedary woods and trundle over them, …
