Our Goal

As farmers we are given tangibles like seed, surroundings, and time. To that we add knowledge, effort, passion, and perspiration. At the end of the day, we pour all those ingredients together with hopes that all of that comes together in a great tasting oyster.

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The Farm

Calusa Oyster Company is an open water oyster farm located in Lower Tampa Bay, Florida. We are dedicated to reviving and continuing a centuries old tradition of oystering in the bay. The Tampa Bay area has a rich history of producing delicious oysters (and cigars) that were shipped and enjoyed worldwide dating back to the 1800’s. Our four-acre lease is located a short boat ride just to the north of what was originally known as The Oyster River for hundreds of years.

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The History of the Calusa

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Oyster History of Tampa Bay

"On every hand I found these immense reefs and beds of oysters in such seemingly inexhaustible supplies it frequently occurred to me that the great God of nature must have gone ahead of me and, with hands wide open, scattered right and left and out into the depths so far that I failed to find their limits."

A. Smeltz on Tampa Bay - 1897

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