Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project

07/03/2025

Volunteers are needed now for the Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project. It is fun, interesting and helps Puget Sound. The volunteer days and times are below:
Thursday, July 3rd : 2pm – 8pm;
Friday, July 4th : 2pm – 8pm;
Saturday, July 5th : 3pm – 8pm;
Sunday, July 6th : 2pm – 8pm;
Monday, July 7th : 3pm – 8pm;
Tuesday, July 8th : 3pm – 8pm;
Wednesday, July 9th : 4pm – 8pm;
Thursday, July 10th : 4pm – 8pm;
Friday, July 11th : 5pm – 8pm;
Saturday, July 12th : 7am – 10am;
Sunday, July 13th : 8am – 11am;
Monday, July 14th : 8am -12pm;
Tuesday, July 15th : 8am -12pm;
Wednesday, July 16th : 9am – 1pm;
Thursday, July 17th : 10am – 2pm;
Friday, July 18th : 10am – 4pm;
Saturday, July 19th : 12pm – 6pm;
Sunday, July 20th : 1pm – 6pm.
Thank you very much for your interest in planting oyster seeds to help our Puget Sound!!

07/03/2025

Volunteers are needed now for the Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project. It is fun, interesting and helps Puget Sound. For 18 years our group has been planting oyster seed on all of the saltwater tidelands, shoreline and beaches around Olympia and Thurston County. We plant two species of oyster seeds: Big Pacific Oysters which clean up our bays and can filter 50 gallons of water a day; and Tiny Olympia Oysters which our indigenous people have been eating for 1000s of years. Olympia Oysters were nearly wiped out due to overharvesting, and now, thanks to volunteers like you, are making a comeback. Volunteers will be making oyster grow bags for planting oyster seeds. Want to learn more? Please watch www.OysterVideo.org , checkout our page and website: www.OlympiaOysterSeedPlantingProject.org . The volunteer days and times are below. The volunteer address is 2017 East Bay Drive NE, Olympia, WA, 98506. Volunteers need to bring work clothes, work shoes, work gloves, sun hat, and water bottle (and snacks/lunch if needed). We do have a toilet and running water here. The volunteer information phone is 360-292-0736, email: [email protected] . Looking forward to meeting everyone and having fun making grow bags and planting lots of oyster seeds together. Please tell all of your family, friends, and colleagues!! Thank you very much, Yours Sincerely, Dan from the Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project.
Thursday, July 3rd : 2pm – 8pm;
Friday, July 4th : 2pm – 8pm;
Saturday, July 5th : 3pm – 8pm;
Sunday, July 6th : 2pm – 8pm;
Monday, July 7th : 3pm – 8pm;
Tuesday, July 8th : 3pm – 8pm;
Wednesday, July 9th : 4pm – 8pm;
Thursday, July 10th : 4pm – 8pm;
Friday, July 11th : 5pm – 8pm;
Saturday, July 12th : 7am – 10am;
Sunday, July 13th : 8am – 11am;
Monday, July 14th : 8am -12pm;
Tuesday, July 15th : 8am -12pm;
Wednesday, July 16th : 9am – 1pm;
Thursday, July 17th : 10am – 2pm;
Friday, July 18th : 10am – 4pm;
Saturday, July 19th : 12pm – 6pm;
Sunday, July 20th : 1pm – 6pm.
Thank you very much for your interest in planting oyster seeds to help our Puget Sound!!

05/30/2025

18th Annual Olympia and Thurston County Oyster Seed
Planting Project
Date:- Saturday, June 7 – Saturday, July 19, 2025. DEADLINE FOR ORDERS: Saturday, 21 June !! Www.OlympiaOysterSeedPlantingProject.org No
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05/30/2025

18th Annual Boston Harbor Oyster Seed
Planting Project
Date:- Saturday, June 7 – Saturday, July 19, 2025. DEADLINE FOR ORDERS: Saturday, 21 June !! www.OlympiaOysterSeedPlantingProject.org

05/28/2025

18th Annual Thurston County Oyster Seed Planting Project. Date:- Saturday, June 7 – Saturday, July 19, 2025. DEADLINE FOR ORDERS: Saturday, 21 June !!

10/01/2024

We’re testing biodegradable oyster seed bags! We’ll have to wait and see how they hold up in the elements☀️🌧️💨🌊🦪🦪

03/29/2024

Big thanks to all the volunteers who showed up and helped us make and plant Olympia oyster seeds, and to for helping us put these event’s together!👏🦪🦪 We hope to see familiar and new faces in the fall when we will have more volunteer events planned😁😁

09/30/2023

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Gathering on the Budd Bay shoreline near Olympia’s Swantown Marine on Sept. 26, 2023 volunteers from around the community along with members of the Stream Te...

09/19/2023

Oyster Planting Volunteers and shoreline Property Owners Needed for 18th Annual Olympia Oyster Seed Planting in September and October.

As you may know, one oyster can filter 50 gallons of Puget Sound salt water each day, so they are natural low-cost very effective sea animals for environmental cleanup. All summer long we have had good turnout for our volunteer oyster planting, together with Rotary Club, Stream Team, City of Olympia and City of Lacey. This September and October we are looking for more volunteers to assist with Oyster planting in Thurston County’s bays, including Budd Inlet, Eld, Boston Harbor, Dana Passage, Henderson Inlet, Johnson Point and Nisqually Reach. We are also looking for shoreline property owners who want to plant oysters on their beaches.

Oyster Planting Volunteers and also Shoreline Property Owners who want to plant their beaches can get in touch with Dan Mazur, at [email protected] at 360-250-3407.

This year we are planting two types of Oysters, firstly the big Pacific Oysters which can grow to 8 inches in length and filter up to 50 gallons of Puget Sound each day; secondly, this year we are planting the native Olympia Oyster, which used to grow around Olympia in abundance and all of the way down the Pacific Coast from Canada to Mexico but were nearly wiped out by overharvesting. Now we are putting them back here in Thurston County’s South Puget Sound, in cooperation with Taylor Shellfish, and the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

For those volunteers who would like to come over here and get involved in oyster planting, we will be preparing the oysters daily, so they can get in touch so we can arrange the best time for oyster grow bag preparation and oyster planting each day.

Oyster Planting Volunteers can please get in touch with Dan Mazur, at the Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project at [email protected] at 360-250-3407.

For those Shoreline owners who would like our Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project volunteers to come over and plant oysters on their beaches, please get in touch and we can do it this September and October.

Shoreline Property Owners who want to plant their beaches can please get in touch with Dan Mazur, at the Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project at [email protected] at 360-250-3407.

By the way, please check out our page at Olympia Oyster Seed Planting Project . Thank you very much!!!

18th Annual Boston Harbor Oyster Seed
Planting Project
Date:- Saturday, June 7 – Saturday, July 19, 2025. DEADLINE FOR ORDERS: Saturday, 21 June !! Www.OlympiaOysterSeedPlantingProject.org

01/08/2022