Harvesting the taste of Lowcountry culture.

Charleston Oyster Farm serves to bring you fresh, local and salty raw oysters by harvesting the taste of Lowcountry "culture" and delivering them to your dock or doorstep with a "marsh to table" approach. As the first oyster farm in the City of Charleston, SC, our mission (besides rejuvenating your taste buds) is to promote healthy ecosystems, environmental awareness, and local mariculture, while restoring the ever-fading working water front along the Southeast. As the market demands more and more single oysters, wild oyster populations face stress to satiate the local palate, and seafood continues to be imported. By farming a local, fantastically flavored, sustainable salty single, Charleston Oyster Farm hopes to decrease this stress on the environment and encourage mariculture operations throughout the lowcountry.

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Had a shucking good time @nicoshemcreek with @oystersxo and @crucatering Thanks so much for letting us be a part of this great experience! #thanks #shuckinggoodtime #oysters #theworldisyouroyster #charleston #local #seafood #marshtotable

Happy Memorial Day! May you revel in something you will always remember....like a #perkyseacups plucked straight from the 💧! #happymemorialday #local #handraised #oysters #charleston #marshtotable #oysterfarming #holiday

I wouldn’t call this seed anymore! Boom! Planted in Late July, these babies are on their way to becoming beautiful, salty and single #perkyseacups and #mosquitofleetpetites ! #cupsizematters #local #moreflowmoregrowmoredough #handraised #oysters #charleston #marshtotable #tastetheperks #shellyeah

Anyone want to do some QA/QC?! Check us out this week @chubbyfishchs and @darling_oyster_bar ! These #perkyseacups and #mosquitofleetpetites will guide your tastes buds on the adventure of a life time. These pair well with a full bodied ice plate and a clean but light oyster knife :)! #getshucked #oysters #marshtotable #charleston #local #sustainable #handraised #yum #qualitycontrol

Today’s gunna be a grade day! Using our home made tumbler we can sort, chip and tumble each oyster throughout their life cycle! Why is this important? It keeps the oysters single while encouraging the oyster to grow deep and strong cups (#askmehowigottheseperkyseas)! At the same time they are sorted by size so that when they go back in cages big ones aren’t out competing the little ones for flow and grow! #tastetheperks #charleston #perkyseacups #grading #tumbler #twinning #homemade #oysters #oysterfarm #marshlife

“Oystahs Oystahs” come and get em!!!! Man it feels good to be back on the water! Get em quick while they last @167_raw @darling_oyster_bar @chubbyfishchs #itfeelsgoodtohavetheseperkyseas #oysters #charleston #oysterstrong #perkyseacups #perkyseas #tastetheperks #marshtotable

The itty bitty A - Cup committee will be “perking” up in months to come! 😂 Stay tuned and watch us as we #growwiththeflow ! #oysters #tastetheperks #sustainable #littleones #seacups #marshtotable #savescoysters #charleston #grading #rollingrollingrolling

Family, friends, fans and followers! Some of you may be aware of the fight for oysters in the Lowcountry, but many of you may not be. In recent months, a small group of Charlestonians has raged war on the oyster farming industry because they don’t like the look of the farms. Despite all the benefits farms could bring, these locals would rather see wild oyster populations dwindle than see innovative aquaculture. We need your help in rallying support to promote awareness and education in the matter to help rebuild our wild oyster populations and improve our estuaries and ecosystems! Hit the link in our bio to help us sign a petition saying that you support oyster farms like ours! #savescoysters #marshtotable #sustainable #oysters

Applied Mariculture! Had a great day showing @cofc_mesprogram students how to air dry barnacles and spat off our oysters to keep them growing as beautiful, healthy, and sustainable salty singles! #education #tastetheperks #marshlife #cofc #students #scienceisdoing

Oooooh there’s some nice ones! Share if you love oysters. #charlestonoysterfarm #charlestonoysters #oysters #sustainableoysters #raw #seafood #charleston #sc #sustainable #sustainablefarming #farming #fresh #local #food #delicious

Sustainable oyster farming is hard work but seeing that sunset is more than worth it. #charlestonoysterfarm #oysters #sunsets #charleston #raw #seafood #sustainablefarming #sustainable #laboroflove

Oysters are delicious and nutritious! And quality control is cool too 😎 #charlestonoysterfarm #oysters #oyster #raw #seafood #sustainablefarming #sustainable #shucksess #shucking #shuckinggoodtime #shucks #handson #behindthescenes #farming #charleston #sc

Today’s gunna be a grade day! Using our home made tumbler we can sort, chip and tumble each oyster throughout their life cycle! Why is this important? It keeps the oysters single while encouraging the oyster to grow deep and strong cups (#askme

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““It takes great habitat to make great oysters, so when you are tasting a really superb one, you can take pleasure in knowing that you are tasting the untamed health and beauty of nature. An oyster doesn’t taste good because of a food scientist’s lecithin; it doesn’t taste good because of a winemaker’s oak chips; it doesn’t taste good because of the chef’s sauce. An oyster tastes good because at one spot in the natural world, something went right. A great oyster is an estuary flashing a thumbs up sign.””

— Rowan Jacobsen; A Geography of Oysters