FARM 'A' TAYLOR SHELLFISH FARMS

Address: 2182 Chuckanut Drive, Bow, WA 98232
Miles off of I-5: Approximately ten
Phone: 360-766-6002
Owners: The Taylor family of Shelton, WA
Website: www.taylorshellfish.com

Directions:
From I-5 take exit #231. Go northwest on Chuckanut Drive (Hwy 11) for 10 miles to the Oyster Creek Inn. From Bellingham take exit #250. Go south on Chuckanut Drive 9.5 miles. The farm’s entrance is in the corner of the restaurant parking lot. Drive under the sign, across the bridge and down the hill. Please use caution: one lane road and railroad crossing.

Farm premises: 1700 acres of shellfish beds in the tidelands of Samish Bay, with a retail store and shore side picnic & BBQ area on scenic Chuckanut Drive.

Festival activities:

• Meet shellfish farmers
• Educational Exhibits
• Oyster shucking demonstrations
• Crab races
• Build a fairy house on the beach
• Shannon Point Marine Center touch tank
• See the world’s only lighthouse made of oyster shells
• Kid’s beach

Learn while touring these premises: Information provided about shellfish farming and clean water awareness. Meet shellfish farmers and see photos and educational displays by Taylor Shellfish Farms, Skagit Conservation Education Alliance (SCEA), Skagit Conservation District and Skagit Valley Backyard Habitat Team.

Free samples: Steamed Manila clams or barbequed Pacific oysters.

Retail ($): Fresh oysters, manila clams, mussels, geoduck clams, Dungeness crab, scallops, prawns, salmon, halibut, smoked salmon & pickled herring. Black pearls from the Taylor Shellfish pearl farm in Fiji. Cookbooks, aprons, sweatshirts and more!

Farm history: Prior to its purchase in 1991 by the Taylor family, this farm started growing oysters in 1921. Now run by the fourth generation of the family, the Taylors began farming shellfish in southern Puget Sound in 1890.

AgFARMation: One adult Pacific Oyster can filter as much as 60 gallons of water per day.