The Drakes Bay Oyster Farm is committed not only to protecting the environment, but to making it better when they can. Their donation of $10,000 in oyster shells made the largest oyster restoration project in California possible. As part of their efforts to promote healthy environments, they also provide free tours for primary school groups, high school classes and college marine biology classes.

The Drakes Bay Oyster Farmroutinely offers its facility and staff to assist in research. Graduate students have used the area for estuarine research projects and the California Department of Health Services has worked there on research projects for advancements in human health protection. The oyster company even agreed to provide matching funds for a federally funded effort to research restoration of native oysters in Drakes Estero. Unfortunately Point Reyes National Seashore would not approve the project.

The Drakes Bay Oyster Company provides hundreds of both water samples and shellfish meat samples to the California Department of Health Services annually.   The laboratory results are used to help guide the environmental health agencies and the California Department of Fish and Game so that they can be more accurate and effective in informing the public, including sport fishermen, about the presence of dangerous biotoxins caused by natural phytoplankton blooms and subsequent quarantines of affected sea life.