How It Works

Adelphi's EAC and Adelphi Faculty work with the Town of Hempstead to provide local restaurants with storage bins, into which employees deposit used and cleaned oyster shells. When the bins are full, they call a number or email us to let us know. A representative from Adelphi or Town of Hempstead drives by to pick up the bins and transport them to the Town of Hempstead curing facility. Here, they will be aged for six months, sorted, seeded with juvenile oysters and then placed in oyster restoration habitats. We then monitor the progress of these new habitats as time progresses.

Members of the Town of Hempstead storing the oyster shells