What the tides teach us
1
Selection starts at the seedbed
Every spat hand-sorted under a dissecting scope. Fourteen thousand graded per cycle, zero compromises.
2
Growth follows the estuary clock
Four years of tidal submersion across six intertidal zones. One thousand four hundred and sixty full cycles before a single harvest window opens.
3
Purity logged, not assumed
Weekly water-quality panels across twenty-seven estuary plots. Every data point continuous since 2010, nothing interpolated.
4
Harvest caps protect the reef
Annual yield limits tied to oyster-reef health surveys conducted each winter. No exceptions made, no quota traded.