Kicking of the 16th Season of TIGO
Each fall, the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center receives bags of spat on shell from the Horn Point Oyster Hatchery through the Marylanders Grow Oysters program. These baby oysters are divvied…
Oyster Restoration and Research at Phillips Wharf
As you may know, the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center runs a community-based oyster restoration program known as Tilghman Islanders Grow Oysters. Through this program, volunteers host oyster cages for a…
The 14th Season of Tilghman Islanders Grow Oysters
Delivering cages is a great excuse to get outside and enjoy seeing different parts of the Chesapeake Bay! Tilghman Islanders Grow Oysters is the name of the volunteer oyster restoration…
OysterBlitz
Last October, the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center was awarded an Oyster Innovation Award grant to create a new program called OysterBlitz. Modeled after the BioBlitz program, the goal was to…