The fifth-generation, family-led company is also the first shellfish farm on the US East Coast to be Best Aquaculture Practices-certified ...

For the Ballard family, oysters are a family heirloom. The 125-plus-year Ballard legacy has been intricately linked with the history of oyster harvesting on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Here, saltwater ...

Freshly shucked oysters are best served chilled on a bed of ice. Chad “Tex” Metcalf, the sales and logistics manager for Cherrystone Aqua-Farms, is affectionately called an oyster sales “shaman and ...

The 125-plus-year Ballard legacy has been intricately linked with the history of oyster harvesting on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Here, saltwater oysters are known to have been in the Chesapeake Bay ...