Peter Stein, son of shul members Ken and Nancy Stein was featured in the July-August issue of Avenue Magazine. Peter, who started his own oyster farm, Peeko Oysters, in New Suffolk, six years ago, supplies many of the best restaurants in New York City.

Peter told Avenue that when he was a teenager, his father would take him to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station as a special treat. Little did he know back then that oysters would become his life’s work and passion. He harvests daily out of Little Peconic Bay, and a day’s haul could yield 3,000 oysters, Avenue reported.

Stein calls what he does “mariculture,” more commonly known as aquaculture, and he cannot overemphasize its importance. “This is a cultural renaissance, working waterfront farms. This is regenerative ocean farming.” Unlike land farms, mariculture does not introduce anything into the process. “We just tend to the oysters in a self-contained ecosystem. We are nurturers,” he said.