Texas Indie OysterFest with Texas Oyster University celebrates Texas oyster culture while highlighting the flavor, innovation, and growth of the state\u2019s emerging oyster mariculture industry.<\/p>\n
Attendees can enjoy oysters from Texas farms served raw and chef-prepared, live music, a shucking competition, local vendors, and opportunities to meet oyster farmers and chefs. The event also highlights the year-round quality and sustainability of Texas-grown oysters, challenging the outdated \u201cR months\u201d myth.<\/p>\n
At the Texas Oyster University tent, attendees can engage directly with experts and gain practical knowledge about oysters – from harvest to plate. Led by Dr. Mario Marquez, Texas Sea Grant Aquaculture Program Manager, the experience includes hands-on opportunities to learn proper oyster shucking techniques, explore oyster anatomy, and discover how Texas bays influence flavor, or \u201cmerroir.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Indie OysterFest with Texas Oyster University celebrates Texas oyster culture while highlighting the flavor, innovation, and growth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22226,132,134,133,163,577,3613,278,79122],"class_list":["post-275298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-22226","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-education","tag-festivals","tag-food-drink","tag-music","tag-occurrence202605031300"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}