Named after a five-masted schooner that served as a speakeasy during the Prohibition era, the Cora Cressy Oyster, farmed by oyster farmers Boe Marsh and Zak Alexander of Commuinty Shellfish, is grown in the waters of a grandfathered lobster pound in Bremen Maine on the Medomak River.

We spent a chilly evening wading through the shallow waters of Goose Cove near Mount Desert Island with oyster farmer, Brian Harvey. What the tides revealed was truly an oyster lover's dream.

Chris Burtis, Max Burtis, and Sam Dorval, the trio that is Ferda Farms, share their insights as to how they incorporate engineering innovation, marketing ingenuity, and a commitment to sustainability in the practice of farming their oyster, the Bombazine, on the New Meadows River in Brunswick, Maine.