Move over, croquet, there's a new backyard game rolling into popularity: Bocce, an Italian version of lawn bowling, is played by rolling, spinning or tossing a grapefruit-size ball down a lawn or ...

Ultimately, the bocce ball community decided at that time that crushed oyster shell and oyster shell powder was the preferred surface.

The balls are usually made of wood, metal or plastic, and played on a court of Har-Tru clay, dirt or crushed oyster shells. In the early 1900s, Italians from the northern end of the peninsula ...

Tom McNutt, owner of Boccemon, a company that sells the crushed-oyster surface material, typically recommends building bocce courts about 10 by 60 feet.

Two separate projects in the Bay Area are using crushed-up shells in different ways to nurture tiny, growing oysters as well as help young clams survive in a changing ocean ecosystem.

Crushed oyster shells can be used to feed livestock, nurture soil, make cement and seed reefs.

Tom McNutt, owner of Boccemon, a company that sells the crushed-oyster surface material, typically recommends building bocce courts about 10 by 60 feet.

Tom McNutt, owner of Boccemon, a company that sells the crushed-oyster surface material, typically recommends building bocce courts about 10 by 60 feet.

The bocce ball court features crushed oyster shell. Park hosts will put out equipment for daily use, Brown said. A storage shed, picnic tables and propane barbecue stations will be installed in the ...

Tom McNutt, owner of Boccemon, a company that sells the crushed-oyster surface material, typically recommends building bocce courts about 10 by 60 feet. A do-it-yourself court can cost anywhere from ...

Tom McNutt, owner of Boccemon, a company that sells the crushed-oyster surface material, typically recommends building bocce courts about 10 by 60 feet.