Sweet Amalia Oyster Getaway

About Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm

For three decades, most recently with Rutgers University, Lisa Calvo studied shellfish pathology, helping to develop oysters resistant to disease. As a side hustle, she launched Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm, which was named for her daughter, who, as a toddler, would slurp oysters straight off the reef. The project began as a learning laboratory for studying aquaculture so that Calvo might better assist other farmers, but, a couple of years ago, it became her full-time occupation. Now, on a six-acre, intertidal plot located off of Route 47, Calvo and her team harvest over 300,000 oysters per season.