Oyster farm · Peconic Bay
Widow's Hole Oyster Farm
Family farm run by Mike and Isabel Osinski, two decades on the East End, cultivating oysters in Widow's Hole off Greenport.
Greenport · Tours available
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Oyster farms, raw bars, and the Peconic merroir — from the bays to your plate.
Filters3 oyster spots
- Working farm / hatchery
- Raw bar / fish market
- Farm + raw bar on site
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The Peconics grow some of the best oysters on the Atlantic. Visit the farmers.
All oyster spots- Merroir · Why they taste like this
- Salinity, minerals, algae
- R-months · The old raw rule
- September–April
- Bay scallops · 1985 brown tide
- Collapsed, still recovering
Hatcheries in Southold, Montauk and North Sea reseed the wild beds with millions of juveniles a year · most working farms take visitors by appointment · wear boots, bring cash, plan to get wet
3 spots
Greenport · 3 spots
- Raw bar · Peconic BayLittle Creek Oyster Farm & MarketGreenport oyster bar, now on Carpenter Street — the menu turns with the season but there are always oysters.GreenportVisit website
Photo: Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Raw bar · Peconic BayClaudio'sGreenport waterfront restaurant, bar and marina, established 1870, with dockage for boats up to 120 feet.GreenportVisit website