In this episode of “Eat Like a Local” , Lone Star Oyster Company owners Blake and Stephanie Branson take host Chris Shepherd and chef Lucas McKinney of Josephine’s Gulf Coast Tradition out to their floating oyster farm in West Bay.

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There, on a 2-acre lease, the Bransons are raising thousands of Mermaid Tears oysters inside 340 floating cages. Just the sixth such farm in Texas, the Bransons are part of a new crop of oyster farms committed to raising sustainable oyster crops that not only produce superior oysters, but also improve the water they’re situated in.

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In this case, Mermaid Tears — a deliberate, cons

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