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Everest Academy is sponsored by Everest Family Ministry in the Birmingham Metro Area. We offer freedom along with quality resources, information, activities and support to those homeschooling in Alabama. We believe that the parent has the best interests of their children at heart. We believe that the parent is the first and only teacher that a child needs. In keeping with this philosophy, we wish to be a very hands-off cover school and allow the parent to lead and guide their children in the direction and at the pace they feel is best suited to their children. We ask only for what the law requires while offering support along with quality resources to aid families in their efforts.

May 19, Dauphin Island: Oyster Gardening Tour

Public invited to tour hatchery, learn about oyster gardening

In the Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening Program, oysters spawned at the Auburn University Shellfish Laboratory on Dauphin Island are given to volunteers whose care allows them to grow to a size that will make it easier for them to survive on restorations reefs.

People interested in the oyster gardening program are invited to take a tour of the hatchery at the Shellfish Lab and learn about the program at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 19. People who have grown oysters from their piers, are interested in becoming gardeners, have adopted gardens or are curious about oyster gardening are welcome.

The Auburn University Shellfish Laboratory is located at 150 Agassiz St. on Dauphin Island, Ala.

For more information or to sign up for the tour, contact PJ Waters, an extension specialist with the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and the Auburn University Marine Extension and Research Center, at 251-438-5690 or waterph@aces.edu.
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