The Gowanus Community Oyster Garden

Oyster gardening for restoration, education and community on the Gowanus Canal.

About the Gowanus Community Oyster Garden

  • Who are the Gowanus Community Oyster Garden Stewards?
  • Why Garden Oysters?
  • Why the Gowanus Canal?
  • Directions: west side of the Canal on 2nd St. By Subway: exit the front of a Brooklyn bound F or G at Carroll St. Cross Smith St. and walk 3 blocks East on 2nd St. to the canal. Click here for Google Maps.

• Resources •

  • Blank data sheet
  • Oyster Gardening manual
  • For a copy of the Powerpoint email: k.moshersmith@gmail.com
  • Field ID Chart (pdf)
  • Oyster Gardening Field Guide (2.3 mb)

• Learn More •

  • 2009 Lecture Series
  • News from the Gardens
  • Resources for Teachers
  • Oysters in the News
  • Books
  • How to conduct an 'Oyster Monitor'

• Contact •

  • Program Contacts
  • New York Harbor School
  • NY/NJ Baykeeper
  • The River Project

Oyster History

  • Joseph Mitchell: The Bottom of the Harbor

    Joseph Mitchell: The Bottom of the Harbor

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  • Mark Kurlansky: The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

    Mark Kurlansky: The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

  • John M. Kochiss: Oystering from New York to Boston, (American Maritime Library)
  • John R. Wennersten: The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay

    John R. Wennersten: The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay

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Oyster Biology and Ecology

  • George C. Matthiessen: Oyster Culture

    George C. Matthiessen: Oyster Culture

  • : The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea Virginica

    The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea Virginica

  • William, K. Brooks: THE OYSTER (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

    William, K. Brooks: THE OYSTER (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

The Gowanus Community Oyster Garden

We are volunteers and members of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club. Once or twice a month we invite anyone who'd like to join us to participate and learn how to care for and monitor the oysters. Open dates are announced on the main page of the website.

We garden oysters as part of a larger NYC Oyster Gardening program which is sponsored by the NY Harbor School, NY/NJ Baykeeper and the River Project.

You may participate with our Gowanus nets or you may join the NYC program and have a net anywhere in the city that you have permission to hang a net from. Applications are available in the sidebar of the main page.

If you have questions or comments regarding oysters in the Gowanus OR the larger NYC Oyster Gardening program, please contact Katie Mosher-Smith.

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