W.E. Kellum Seafood

Est. 1948 US East Coast public and company-owned oyster beds; spat-on-shell planting 1 oyster

About W.E. Kellum Seafood

W. Ellery Kellum opened a one-room oyster shucking house on Carters Creek in 1948. The company says it has run without a break for more than 75 years and is owned and operated by his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, in a 10,000-square-foot plant that Weaver Street Market says still incorporates the original building. It also deals in scallops, soft crabs and Chesapeake fin fish.

Farm details

Cultivation Method
public and company-owned oyster beds; spat-on-shell planting
Growing Waters
Weems, Virginia; Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia

Oysters from W.E. Kellum Seafood

Kellum oyster illustration

Kellum

US East Coast

A mild Chesapeake Bay oyster packed by W.E. Kellum Seafood of Weems, Virginia, a family company since 1948. Plump and tender with little salt and a buttery, sweet taste; it comes from beds across Virginia's Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula.

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