#oysters

[dozydawn]

[applebugg]

Vintage chrome shell butter dish

[saizun]

oysters. 🦪˚｡𖦹   ୭  ׂ  𓈒 ·˚ 

[ifisthemiddlewordinlife]

Grand Central Station, Oyster Bar - NY, Built in 1913.

[keklordkaotic]

OPTIMUS PRIME AS AN OYSTER PLEASE.

Thanks for the prompt. To be completely honest I had no idea how to approach this one. Sorry if it’s a little rough.

Oystermus Prime. He’s a giant spiny oyster because I wasn’t sure how else I could make him look distinct. I’ll include pictures under the cut.

If anyone else wants to send me art or writing prompts, I’m open to just about anything right now so long as I’m familiar with the subject or can otherwise pull up a reference for whatever it is.

[shiftythrifting]

Recent-ish finds from Admin BT: another mug edition! (Various thrift stores in the Boise, ID area)

Sensuous Woman should have come home with me. I'm going back tomorrow to see if it is still there.

[nordicsublime]

Went picking oysters today

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[reasonsforhope]

"When Francois Beyers first pitched the concept of 3D ocean farming to the Welsh regulators, he had to sketch it on napkins. 

Today the seafood farm is much more than a drawing, but if you walked along the Welsh coastal path near St David’s, all you’d see is a line of buoys. As Beyers puts it: “It’s what’s below that’s important.”

Thick tussles of lustrous seaweed suspend from the buoys, mussels cling to its furry connective ropes and dangling Chinese lantern-esque nets are filled with oysters and scallops. 

“It’s like an underwater garden,” says Beyers, co-founder of the community-owned regenerative ocean farm, Câr-y-Môr. The 3-hectare site is part of a fledgling sector, one of 12 farms in the UK, which key players believe could boost ocean biodiversity, produce sustainable agricultural fertiliser and provide year-round employment in areas that have traditionally been dependent on tourism. 

Created in 2020 by Beyers and six family members, including his father-in-law – an ex-shellfish farmer – the motivation is apparent in the name, which is Welsh for “for the love of the sea”. ...

Pictured: Drone shot of Câr-y-Môr, which is on the site of abandoned mussel farms. Image: Scott Chalmers

Ocean farming comes from the technical term ‘integrated multi-trophic aquaculture’, which means a mixture of different seaweed and shellfish species growing together to mutually benefit each other. But it’s not just a way of growing food with little human input, it also creates ocean habitat. 

“You’re creating a breeding ground for marine animals,” explains Beyers who adds that the site has seen more gannets diving, porpoises and seals – to name a few – since before the farm was established.

Ocean farms like Câr-y-Môr, notes Ross Brown – environmental research fellow at the University of Exeter – have substantial conservation benefits.

“Setting up a seaweed farm creates an exclusion zone so fishermen can’t trawl it,” explains Brown, who has been conducting experiments on the impacts of seaweed and shellfish farms across the UK. 

Brown believes a thriving ocean farming industry could provide solutions to the UK’s fish stock, which is in “a deeply troubling state” according to a report that found half of the key populations to be overfished. “It would create stepping stones where we have safe havens for fish and other organisms,” he adds. 

But UK regulators have adopted a cautious approach, note Brown and Beyers, making it difficult for businesses like Câr-y-Môr to obtain licenses. “It’s been a tough old slog,” says Beyers, whose aim is to change the legislation to make it easier for others to start ocean farms. 

Despite navigating uncharted territories, the business now has 14 full-time employees, and 300 community members, of which nearly 100 have invested in the community-benefit society. For member and funding manager Tracey Gilbert-Falconer, the model brings expertise but most importantly, buy-in from the tight-knit local community. 

“You need to work with the community than forcing yourself in,” she observes. 

And Câr-y-Môr is poised to double its workforce in 2024 thanks to a Defra grant of £1.1 million to promote and develop the Welsh seafood industry as part of the UK Seafood Fund Infrastructure Scheme. This will go towards building a processing hub, set to be operational in April, to produce agricultural fertiliser from seaweed. 

Full of mineral nutrients and phosphorous from the ocean, seaweed use in farming is nothing new, as Gilbert-Falconer notes: “Farmers in Pembrokeshire talk about their grandad going down to the sea and throwing [seaweed] on their farms.” 

But as the war in Ukraine has caused the price of chemical fertiliser to soar, and the sector tries to reduce its environmental impact – of which synthetic fertiliser contributes 5% of total UK emissions – farmers and government are increasingly looking to seaweed. 

The new hub will have capacity to make 65,000 litres of sustainable fertiliser annually with the potential to cover 13,000 acres of farmland. 

But to feed the processing hub, generate profit and reduce their dependency on grants, the co-op needs to increase the ocean farm size from three to 13 hectares. If they obtain licences, Beyers says they should break even in 18 months. 

For now, Beyers reflects on a “humbling” three years but revels in the potential uses of seaweed, from construction material to clothing.  

“I haven’t seen the limit yet,” he smiles."

-via Positive.News, February 19, 2024

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[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

Alice Madness Returns Oysters

[coolthingsguyslike]

[gentlenmensarts]

[covenawhite66]

Billion Oyster Project (BOP) has been working in Powell’s Cove Park mudflats in Northern Queens. One of 140 million oysters at restoration sites in New York City.

According to a wild oyster survey 700 oysters were found.

The BOP goal is to educate the public on the benefits of repopulating oysters for biodiversity and to not eat the oysters contaminated by sewage.

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

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[districtfourmermaid]

Ok ok ok, in the Quell, the Rebel Pack gets sent, of all things, cocktail sauce to go with their oysters.

"Just as we're about to eat, a parachute appears bearing two supplements to our meal. A small pot of spicy red sauce and yet another round of rolls from District 3."

How extra. How decadent. Rolling on the floor laughing, because there are two explanations for this luxury.

1) Haymitch and the other mentors knew they'd be breaking them out that night, so at this point, may as well spend the sponsor money. You can't take it with you. Fuck it, we ball, send them some cocktail sauce.

2) Sponsors in the Capitol saw them eating oysters and simply could not allow them do so without condiments. Please, they are Victors, not mere Tributes. Let them have some decency. Naked oysters are just too much to bear.