Mookie Blues from Damariscotta, ME YGroup_Sconticut Farmer Kimberly Ward [farm owner]

Farmer Kimberly Ward [farm owner] and Michael Ward [farm manager]

Dan Niven was looking for ways to improve local shellfish populations

How they taste: These oysters are incredibly vegetal

Galicia is studded with bays and inlets which are fed “rías” (aka estuaries)

2 of which are situated on soft sand

Mookie Blues from Damariscotta, ME YGroup_Sconticut Farmer Kimberly Ward [farm owner]Available for a limited time only. Farmer: Bill Mook Location: Damariscotta River, ME Size: 2. 5" 3 How theyre grown: Mooks oysters begin in their very own hatchery where the seed is grown in upwellers of various sizes. Once large enough, theyre moved to OysterGro cages, which are equipped with floats to hold the cages just below the waters surface. The floating cages are regularly flipped to encourage shell growth and shape and to control fouling