LANDLOCKED 7: THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!
Oct
22
4:00 PM16:00

LANDLOCKED 7: THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!

THANK YOU SPONSORS, CHEFS, FARMERS, BARTENDERS, BREWERIES, and VOLUNTEERS!

The 2023 beneficiary is to help increase our capacity at Oyster South and our Peer to Pier travel program for oyster farmers and chefs.

Thank you to all of our volunteers - we are all set for 2023!

We are SOLD OUT for 2023!!! Thank you to everyone for your support and we look forward to seeing y’all in 2024 for LANDLOCKED 8!!

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Oyster South Symposium 2023
Mar
9
to Mar 11
Oyster South Symposium 2022
Apr
5
to Apr 7

Oyster South Symposium 2022

It's time to come together again! Our fifth Oyster South Symposium is a meeting to bring together producers, gear suppliers, distributors, chefs, food writers, vendors, researchers, students and managers from the southeast region to discuss pressing issues and relevant, practical research on oyster aquaculture. This meeting is intended for industry members and intends to give good hands-on, practical information.

Symposium Program!

This year we are trying something different and holding our meeting outdoors on the beautiful grounds of the Ohr O'Keefe Art Museum (with a tent with walls and heaters if necessary) with the regular meeting on Wednesday, April 6th and Thursday, April, 7th.

You can purchase tickets now at the early bird rates (through February), and, as a current Oyster South paid member, you receive heavily discounted registration, with 20% off by entering a code you will get by email.

Trade show! One highlight of the meeting is our industry trade show that runs from Wednesday morning through Thursday afternoon. This year, vendor registration will include two meeting registrations in the price; any additional attendees will need an additional registration.

A block of rooms has been reserved for this meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Biloxi from Tuesday through Thursday. To obtain this rate, book your room here or indicate that you are with the Oyster South Symposium when you call. This is again a first come, first serve benefit with the room block deadline for reserving a room of March 11, 2022. There are many other possible accommodations in the area.

Flying in? The Gulfport-Biloxi airport is less than half an hour from the venue, while Mobile's airport is about an hour and New Orlean's airport is about 1.5 hours away.

More info coming soon on tours, workshops, and agenda. Right now, for sure plan to arrive Tuesday, April 5th to catch up with folks that evening (5-8 pm) at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) for the Director's Reception! There may be optional tours or y'all can take in the sites along the Gulf Coast on your own. With events through Thursday evening, stick around until Friday, April 8th!

We are looking for sponsors so please reach out if you'd like to be a sponsor of this year's symposium to Bill Walton at walton@vims.edu.

To put on a successful meeting for the industry while keeping registration costs reasonable, we welcome sponsorships. All sponsors will be recognized on Oyster South social media, have their logo on meeting materials, and be able to provide literature to meeting attendees. Gold sponsors ($5,000) receive either a vendor space and 6 registrations (pending availability) or up to 12 registrations. Silver sponsors ($2,500) receive either a vendor space and 3 registrations or up to 6 registrations. Bronze sponsors ($1,250) receive up to 3 registrations. In-kind sponsorships are also welcome. Please contact Bill Walton at walton@vims.edu.

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LANDLOCKED 5
Oct
24
4:00 PM16:00

LANDLOCKED 5

We hope you can join us for LANDLOCKED 5 at Legacy Park in Decatur, GA from 4:00 to 7:00 PM!

This fundraiser takes place on behalf of Oyster South and has a direct financial impact on the farmed oyster industry in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern Atlantic coastline. It's been a couple of years since our last get together, so we're guessing that 2021 is going to be one for the books!

Tickets include ALL food and beverages, so be ready for a good time!

Oyster South is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2016 by members of the scientific, restaurant, farming, and food-writing communities for the purpose of spotlighting southern oyster aquaculture. Our mission is to connect communities and provide resources to foster the success of oyster farming in the Southern United States. Oyster South’s vision is to spotlight and expand the environmental and economic benefits of oyster farming in the South, which will increase sustainable seafood production, improve the health of our waters, increase the prosperity of our coastal communities and elevate appreciation for Southern farm-raised oysters.

This year, Oyster South will be helping to raise funds for another 501 (c)(3) non-profit, Minorities in Aquaculture (MIA). Their mission is to help create a more diverse, inclusive aquaculture industry by educating minority women about the restorative and sustainability benefits provided by local and global aquaculture. Funds from Landlocked will allow MIA to recruit minority women in the form of paid internships. Each dollar will move MIAs mission a step closer to a better shellfishing reality.

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TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!! If interested in volunteering, please email slurp@oystersouth.com

OTHER INFO:

Parking is limited - please consider a rideshare service.

In the event of cancellation or postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will issue a full refund to all ticketholders. You will have the option of either receiving a full refund or applying the amount paid as a donation to Oyster South and Minorities in Aquaculture.

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Succinct Seminar Series #2
Mar
19
10:00 AM10:00

Succinct Seminar Series #2

Please join us on Friday 3/19/21 for our second Succinct Seminar!

Start time is 10 AM Central / 11 AM Eastern. We will be talking about sustainable packaging and enjoy a few three minute tech talks.

Our speakers will be:

Mary Smith, Sustainability Director of Inland Seafood

Cainnon Gregg, Oyster Farmer, Pelican Oyster Co.

Scott Maurer, Oyster Farmer, The Louisiana Oyster Co.

Patrick McMurray, aka Shucker Paddy, restaurateur, educator, and award winning oyster shucker.

Please feel free to invite your friends and other oyster fans. We usually meet in person for our annual Industry Symposium, but we're excited to be able to open this up to the public!

To receive your secure zoom link, please register here.

If you would like to watch the first seminar from 2/19/21 on shellfish research updates, you can view it here.

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Feb
20
to Feb 23

Oyster South Symposium 2020

Our fourth Oyster South Symposium is a meeting to bring together producers, gear suppliers, distributors, chefs, food writers, vendors, researchers, students and managers from the southeast region to discuss pressing issues and relevant, practical research on oyster aquaculture. The Symposium is being hosted by Oyster South, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing oyster aquaculture in the southern US, in collaboration with Alabama Cooperative Extension System, and Auburn University Shellfish Lab. This meeting is intended for industry members.

Current Oyster South paid members will receive heavily discounted registration! If you are not a current member, you can join here. We'd love to have you as a member! Registration includes admission to all informational sessions (all day Friday and Saturday), all breaks, lunch on Friday & Saturday, the 'Shuck and Tell' on Friday night at Wrightsville Beach Brewery, a new awards ceremony on Saturday night, and the trade show. Meeting fees are based on current OS membership and industry role. Don't wait to buy tickets. Early bird prices will last until December 16th, and then prices will go up again on January 27th.

You can read more here and buy tickets here.

The draft program is now available.

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Landlocked 3 October 20, 2019
Oct
20
3:00 PM15:00

Landlocked 3 October 20, 2019

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Get ready for Landlocked 3 in Decatur, GA on October 20, 2019 from 3 - 7PM.

This fundraiser takes place on behalf of Oyster South and has a direct financial impact on the farmed oyster industry in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern Atlantic coastline. If you like oysters, bbq and booze this event is for you. This year’s event includes over twenty oyster farms from the southeast and beyond as well as food prepared by the following fine chefs, pitmasters and bakers.

In October 2017, Oyster South threw the first ever Landlocked Oyster & BBQ Festival to celebrate farmed southern oysters and to raise money for the UGA Shellfish Research Laboratory. Thanks to all the generous sponsors and wonderful guests, Oyster South was able to write a check for over $20,000 directly to the University of Georgia.

Also be ready for cocktails and beer from the following fine folks:

1. Miles Macquarrie of Watchman’s

2. David Chapman of Kimball House

3. Kellie Thorn of Empire State South

4. Paul Calvert of Ticonderoga Club

5. Allagash Brewing

6. Creature Comforts Brewing Co.

7. Halfway Crooks

8. Fonta Flora Brewery

9. Three Taverns Craft Brewery

10. Arches Brewing

11. Sceptre Brewing Arts

12. Tip Top Cocktails

Tickets include ALL food and beverages, so be ready for a good time!

Oyster South is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2014 by members of the scientific, restaurant, farming, and food-writing communities for the purpose of spotlighting southern oyster aquaculture. Oyster farming has provided great ecological and economic value to other parts of the country, and now we are seeing those benefits having positive effects in coastal communities throughout the south.  Oyster South’s goal is to help the farming industry succeed in these communities so that cultured oysters can be a relevant part of our southern diet and dining culture, provide a way to make a living for southern family oyster farms, and highlighting the positive environmental benefits of oyster farming.

This year donations will be used to strengthen Oyster South’s “Peer to Pier” program. Peer to Pier provides member farmers the opportunity to travel to other farms around the country in order improve their own operations through hands-on experience and education. Peer to Pier also creates an information exchange between growers that is slowly but surely taking southern farmed oysters from a regional product to national relevancy.

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Thank You to Our Sponsors for Landlocked 3!
Oct
15
to Oct 15

Thank You to Our Sponsors for Landlocked 3!

We want to send out a big THANK YOU to all of our generous sponsors who supported us for Landlocked 3 in Decatur, GA. We could not have done it without you and appreciate everyone who helped make this event a success!

We were able to raise over $40,000 to help support Oyster South’s “Peer to Pier” Program. Peer to Pier provides member farmers the opportunity to travel to other farms around the country in order improve their own operations through hands-on experience and education. Peer to Pier also creates an information exchange between growers that is slowly but surely taking southern farmed oysters from a regional product to national relevancy.

We hope to see everyone IN PERSON for LANDLOCKED 5 in 2021!

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The 2019 Oyster South Symposium
Feb
22
to Feb 23

The 2019 Oyster South Symposium

Our third Oyster South Symposium is a meeting to bring together producers, gear suppliers, distributors, chefs, food writers, vendors, researchers, students and managers from the southeast region to discuss pressing issues and relevant, practical research on oyster aquaculture.

SOLD OUT

We’ll get a bigger venue for our next Symposium but we have completely filled up our meeting room for this year’s Symposium. We are hoping to arrange a (free) live feed of the talks and panels though. If you didn’t get a ticket, please check it out!

February 22-23, 2019 in Orange Beach, AL.

Wednesday, Feb. 20th

  • 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Ocean Conservancy farm tour of Pensacola Bay Oyster Hatchery (Tour is now full)

Thursday, Feb. 21st 

  • 9:00 am to 11:00 am Ocean Conservancy farm tour of Navy Cove Oysters (Tour is now full)

  • 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm Ocean Conservancy Panel: When dead shellfish aren’t your fault - Ocean acidification and other environmental mortality events discussion panel (Gulf Room, Island House Hotel)

  • 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Director’s Welcome Reception, Playa Restaurant

Friday, Feb. 22nd 

  • 8:00 am to 8:30 am Coffee

  • 8:30 am to 8:45 am Welcome, Beth Walton

  • 8:45 am to 9:00 am Efficacy of biofouling mitigation methods for floating cage production of southeastern triploid Eastern oysters, Shannon Kirk, University of Georgia

  • 9:00 am to 9:15 am Comparing off-bottom oyster aquaculture techniques in the Northern Gulf of Mexico on biofouling, Ellis Chapman. Louisiana State University

  • 9:15 am to 9:30 am Return on investment of floating cage production, Julie Davis

  • 9:30 am to 9:45 am Assessment of Financial Risk in Off-bottom Culture on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Leslie Sturmer, University of Florida

  • 9:45 am to 10:00 am Investigating summer mortality in triploids in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Sarah Bodenstein, Auburn University

  • 10:00 am to 10:15 am Effects of gear type and season on Vibrios in farmed oysters after routine handling, Vicki Pruente, Auburn University

  • 10:15 am to 10:40 am Refreshment Break

  • 10:40 am to 11:00 am Oyster farming as restoration, Pete Malinowski, Billion Oyster Project

  • 11:00 am to 11:20 am Revenge of the nerds: Effects of debt financing on your heavy, sharp rock farm, Matthew Parker, University of Maryland

  • 11:20 am to 11:40 am Research farm network, Diane Murphy, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension & Woods Hole Sea Grant

  • 11:40 am to Noon Rethinking how we think about seed transfers, Ryan Carnegie, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

  • Noon to 1:30 pm Lunch (Will's Farm Foods)

  • 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Need for Seed Panel Discussion, Moderated by Julie Davis

  • 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm Lessons from the Storms Panel Discussion, Moderated by Chuck Weirich, North Carolina Sea Grant

  • 2:30 pm to 3:10 pm Impacts of Climate Change Panel Discussion, Moderated by Sally McGee, The Nature Conservancy

  • 3:10 pm to 3:50 pm Three Minute Tech Talks, Moderated by Jason Rider & Chuck Weirich, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources 

  • 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Trade Show and Happy Hour

  • 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Friends & Farmers, Fisher’s Dockside Restaurant

Saturday, Feb. 23rd 

  • 8:00 am to 9:00 am Coffee

  • 9:00 am to 9:20 am Under the Oyster South Hood, Beth Walton

  • 9:20 am to 9:40 am Finding your tribe, Becky Wasden, Two Girls One Shuck

  • 9:40 am to 10:20 am The Importance, or Not, of Quality Panel Discussion, Moderated by Bill Walton

  • 10:20 am to 10:40 am Refreshment Break

  • 10:40 am to 11:00 am An educated staff, Julia Sullivan, Henrietta Red

  • 11:00 am to 11:20 am Lessons from cocktails, Caroline Rosen, Tales of the Cocktail

  • 11:20 am to Noon Telling the Story Panel Discussion, Moderated by Erin Byers Murray and Jennifer Kornegay

  • Noon Closing and Farewells, Beth Walton

  • 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Discussion with Bob Rheault of East Coast Shellfish Growers Association about possibilities for a Gulf Coast growers association


Gold Sponsors

  • Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

  • National Sea Grant

Silver Sponsors

  • Louisiana Sea Grant

Bronze Sponsors

  • Evan’s Meats & Seafood

  • Georgia Sea Grant

  • Go Deep

  • Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

  • SEAPA

  • South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

  • Texas Sea Grant


 

 

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Landlocked 2 / October 21, 2018
Oct
21
3:00 PM15:00

Landlocked 2 / October 21, 2018

We invite our sponsors and the general public to Decatur, GA to help us celebrate the southern oyster farming community and raise money to support the people that are working to make the dream of a strong southern oyster culture a reality. We do hope you'll be able to join us. 

Much like last year, the primary beneficiary of Landlocked is the University of Georgia Marine Extension on Skidaway Island. The team behind the UGA Shellfish Research Lab has been working hard to produce oyster seed and teach interested people the art of farming oysters; the success of most successful oysters farming communities in the south can be traced back to their extension services. We want our friends at the UGA Shellfish Research Lab to have all the tools they need to help make Georgia a great place to grow, sell, and eat homegrown oysters. 

Landlocked 2 will also allow Oyster South to begin our new SEED BANK program.  You can't farm without seed, and access to seed (baby oysters) is one of the most critical variables to any farms success. The best way for a farmer to ensure that he or she has the seed needed to operate is to grow it themselves. Growing seed ain't easy though. There are equipment, labor, and a steep learning curve to deal with. And that's why Oyster South wants to help out. Seed Bank funds will be turned into grants that give upstart hatcheries the financial help they need to make sure that the South's oyster farms will always have the seed necessary to grow beautiful oysters. 

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