It’s believed that a clam garden — a traditional, Indigenous way of boosting shellfish production — hasn’t been built in the United States for close to 200 years. Rock by rock, this muddy ...

The clam garden, a form of ancient aquaculture, ... August Sylvester, 78, an elder from Penelakut Island, spent decades building and restoring clam gardens on the shores there, ...

Youth and youth leaders build the Meares Island clam garden on May 20, 2023. Image by Chris Adair. Clam gardens have fed coastal First Nations communities for generations.

The clam garden being built in Coles Bay, off the west side of the Saanich Peninsula, represents a form of traditional aquaculture and technology that has been used on North America’s northwest ...

The Department of Fisheries and Ocean was asked by The Canadian Press about the construction last Friday, and on Tuesday the department said in a statement it was "aware of work being undertaken ...

For ages, inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest farmed the sea with a type of environmental engineering called clam gardening, ... Swinomish Tribe builds modern clam garden, reviving practice.