Think of an animal that serves as a role model. If “oyster” didn’t spring to mind, you haven’t met Laura Solomon, co-owner of the first floating oyster farm in Georgia.
“When you see oysters on the wild banks, you realize how powerful they are,” Solomon told her audience at the Georgia Resiliency Conference on Jekyll Island in October. “They protect species. They’re a habitat creator. They stay their whole lives in one place, and the whole time they’re giving back to their community. They filter the water, they clean their place, right?”
These traits, plus others – like the historical and economic significance of oyster production – make oysters a focus for not only educating Coastal Georgia’s schoolchildren, but instilling in them a sense of place…