Cultivation

Wright Brothers produce single-estate, organic oysters and have absolute control over our product from A to Z of the growth cycle.

We use a variety of cultivation methods, including traditional sub-tidal bottom cultivation and a pioneering low-impact system of cage cultivation allowing us to control key quality-factors such as temperature, salinity and depth. We reserve 20 hectares of our fishery exclusively for fattening of oysters at low densities in the final six months of their cultivation cycle.

The Duchy Oyster Farm is one of the few UK oyster farms with official organic accreditation from the Soil Association and we use no chemicals, feeds or artificial processes at any stage of our cycle. By sourcing pacific oyster seed from a hatchery, we ensure that our farming is entirely sustainable and we do not deplete any wild stocks. We take out from the marine environment only what we put in.