Neighborhood Renewal

This piece celebrates hope for the shallows of the Lynnhaven estuary. I loved the process as the pour rendered up shallow water grasses and an oyster bed. In addition to being a great food source, oysters improve the environment. So let’s root for oysters and support renewal of oyster beds. I knew about the amazing filtering capacity of one oyster— 50 gallons of water a day and about how they consume nitrogen pollutants but what I didn’t know was that excess algae is “packaged up” and left on the bottom as harmless waste…Amazing stuff…amazing design.