18th Annual Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Day

Annual Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Day on Wednesday, October 11^th, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. We will have a very diverse, interesting, photogenic group of volunteers here (we had more than 70 volunteers on different days during September) who are counting Oyster Seeds, filling Oyster Grow bags, and planting them on the beach here in Budd Inlet. This is a great opportunity for a news story, photo, video, and interviews. Lots of action and lots of volunteers. By the way, in case of rain, we have a large dry out-building with plenty of large windows and skylight; its 27 feet by 14 feet, so very large and spacious and dry. This is just 30 seconds walk from the beach where we plant the oysters, so a great location in any weather!

As you may know, one oyster can filter 50 gallons of Puget Sound salt water each day, so they are natural low-cost very effective sea animals for environmental cleanup. All summer long we have had good turnout for our volunteer oyster planting, together with Rotary Club, Stream Team, City of Olympia and City of Lacey.