Projects > Community Shellfish Farms > Bainbridge Island

Puget Sound Restoration Fund is collaborating with Bloedel Reserve, Sound Food, Sustainable Bainbridge, Bainbridge Watershed Council and the City of Bainbridge Island to operate a Community Shellfish Farm on Bainbridge Island.

We hope to connect community members directly with the benefits of a healthy watershed by growing, harvesting and eating community grown clams and oysters. We believe this positive connection between you, your environment and your dinner plate is the key to active and enjoyable environmental stewardship.

Growing shellfish has many environmental benefits including improved water quality, species diversity and eelgrass growth. In fact, a single oyster can filter 20 gallons of water a day. Shellfish can be part of the solution to cleaning up Puget Sound.

The Port Madison CSF will involve many volunteers to help survey beaches, plant clams and oysters, maintain the garden, and harvest and deliver shellfish to local restaurants, community events and farmers markets! Additionally we will start a Community Supported Aquaculture (CSA) program in the summer of 2010.  For more information and to sign up for the CSA, click here!

If you or your organization are interested in volunteering with us - please contact Morgan Rohrbach at Puget Sound Restoration Fund 206.780.6947

Sign up for our 2010 oyster CSA and enjoy our "Port Madison Petite's" all summer!

Bloedel Reserve