Cedar Key Students Plant Clams

Science and Agriculture students with seed clams that they are about to plant.

Students in the Science and Agriculture classes at Cedar Key Schools experienced clam farming down on the farm just after the Thanksgiving holiday. Denny Voyles, who not only teaches at Cedar Key School, but is a charter captain as well, led his classes on a clam planting expedition with the help of local clammer Heath Davis. Seed clams the size of small fingernails, two hundred thousand to be exact, were taken to a clam lease for planting. The clams were donated by commercial clammers. Part of the seed calms were Florida stock raised in an Hawaiian hatchery and shipped to Cedar Key.

Captain, and Cedar Key School teacher, Voyles preparing to cast off with a cargo of boys.

Cedar Key students will follow the growth, harvest and marketing of the clams planted on a portion of a clam lease donated by Commissioner Davis. This project will give the students appreciation for the clamming industry from bottom to top. Some of them came in wet suits commonly used by clammers in anticipation of cool water tempertures.

With City Commissioner Heath Davis at the helm and School Board member Beth Davis at the stern, the Science and Agriculture students are off for the clam beds.

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