Everglades Farm Is Reviving Florida’s Oyster Industry, Making The Tables Of Michelin-Starred Restaurants

Everglades Farm Is Reviving Florida’s Oyster Industry, Making The Tables Of Michelin-Starred Restaurants
Everglades Farm Is Reviving Florida’s Oyster Industry, Making The Tables Of Michelin-Starred Restaurants Everglades Oysters / Instagram From the restaurant scene in Miami to the fan-powered boats of the Everglades, people are really excited about oysters. Can you imagine—the bivalve so associated with cold waters in places like Brittany, Sydney, Galway, or California, being grown in the muddy, tropical Everglades? If your first instinct was to swear never to eat one, maybe you should listen to what Josh Wilkie and Fabio Galarce are saying, as they harvest dozen after dozen for Michelin-starred Miami restaurants. “We have to focus on educating and combating this stigma or as we like to call it, prejudice,” Galarce told the Miami Herald. “We’re finding that the oysters love it here. People think of the Everglades as just a muddy swamp, but it’s actually a beautiful tropical paradise.” Galarce and Wilkie are the co-founders of Everglades Oysters, a company that provides artisanal oyster suppli…