Oyster gardening season to open, New Gardeners are Welcome!

Anyone interested in joining the Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening Program should attend one of two upcoming workshops.

Gardeners grow oysters in cages off their wharves in “conditionally open” waters. The oysters grown in the gardens will be planted on reefs.

A Baldwin County workshop will take place at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 17, at the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau (the Welcome Center) in Orange Beach.

A Mobile County workshop will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 1, at the Auburn University Shellfish Laboratory on Dauphin Island.

Workshops typically last for one to three hours.

There is no cost for the workshops, but reservations are recommended. Contact Extension Specialist P.J. Waters at 251-438-5690 or waterph@aces.edu for more information or to reserve a seat.