Aug31

56th Annual U.S. Oyster Festival in St. Mary’s County

The 56th annual Oyster Festival – October 15 & 16, 2022 Celebrate the annual opening of oyster season on the Chesapeak...

Aug31

The World is Your Oyster Festival – October 8, 2022

A celebration of oysters and an opportunity for Chesapeake Bay recovery. A bivalve-l...

Sep29

U.S. National Oyster Festival is Back! Oct.16 & 17

The 55th annual Oyster Festival in St. Mary’s County is Back! Celebrate the an...

Apr13

Oysters for Earth Day!

Join Craig Sewell on Earth Day, April 22 at 6 p.m., for his ongoing virtual cooking class series “In a Cook’s Ki...

Feb23

Annapolis Oyster Fest Supports Watermen, Restaurants and The Environment

The Downtown Annapolis Partnership is launching a new event in cooperation with Mary...

Jan11

Maryland Oyster Aquaculture On The Rise

Oyster farming is on the rise in Maryland, according to the recent Lancaster Farmin...

Oct01

2020 U.S. Oyster Festival Goes Virtual!

Rather than holding a large public festival this year, the Rotary Club of Lexington ...

Aug17

Buy Maryland Seafood Days!

September is coming soon – (although there’s no need to wait until there’s an ‘R’ in the mont...

Jun02

Oyster Women Farm the Waters

Pink Tractor a national women in agriculture magazine, was looking for articles on w...

May21

Get Your Oysters Now! Pre-Order Online or Phone + Pickup

The Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) recently compiled a list of Maryland oyster fa...

Apr30

Oyster Aquaculture Contributes $9 million to Maryland’s Econonmy

A new report, released in April by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, finds that oyster aquaculture operations in Maryland contr...

Oct16

New Video Series Showcases SOMD Oysters

This week, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) launche...

Sep18

U.S. Oyster Festival – October 19 & 20 in St. Mary’s County

U. S. Oyster Shucking Competition, National Oyster Cook-Off (And Lots of Seafood), o...

Jul31

The Infamous Oyster Wars

During the colonial period a fiercely contested dispute over the ownership of the wa...

Jun20

Fresh Oysters Farmed Year-Round In Southern Maryland

The old saying that you can “only eat oysters in months with the letter R” isn’t the rule anymore, and the oyster aqua...

Jun19

Charles County’s Oyster Heritage

Did you know Charles County had two main oyster industry areas? Benedict on the Patu...

Jun01

Check out our Oyster Guide Map

Check out the all-new, easy-to-use, oyster guide map. You can filter by your favorit...

May29

We Have A New Website!

The Southern Maryland Oyster Guide has launched a new mobile responsive website, somdoysterguide.com. What does mobile respo...