Vertical Oyster Garden Adoption Video
Visit Our School and Adopt a VOG for Your Dock
To register and adopt a Vertical Oyster Garden (VOG) for your dock or local bridge, click the "VOG Adoption" button.
What to do next?
After you adopt and deploy your Vertical Oyster Garden, we would love it if you would send us some photos and information from time to time to let us know how you VOG is colonizing. Simply follow this link and complete the report:
VOG Citizen Science Survey123 Link
Tampa Bay Watch will also be collecting this data.
A few of our research questions are:
What water quality parameters lead to the best recruitment and growth of oysters on VOGs?
How much time does it take for oysters to settle and grow on VOGs?
What other species like to live on VOGs?
The Building of our Vertical Oyster Garden Adoption Station
It actually took a few more attempts at measuring and cutting
This girl is not intimidated by power tools.
This was really tricky because our arms could only reach so far and we had to cut from both ends.
Supplies to build our VOG Adoption Site were paid for by Roots and Shoots USA, the youth action program of the Jane Goodall Institute whose mission is to empower young people to be the change in their communities.
Adopting Vertical Oyster Gardens is so easy and so much fun!