By Patrick D. Bonin BRANCH, LA. – Out at Frugé Aquafarms, we use a wide variety of transportation options to maintain and harvest our crawfish and rice crops. On any given day, a multitude of work is accomplished by lots of different employees in pickup trucks,...
Big Alligators Inside Crawfish Ponds Just Don’t Mix By Patrick Bonin Branch, LA – For 25 years, Ed Guidry has worked as the Operations Manager at Frugé Aquafarms: he’s involved in all aspects of rice and crawfish production, and he’s a key guy who specializes...
By Patrick D. Bonin Branch, LA – Getting the crawfish into our traps is just half the battle here at Fruge Aquafarms. Getting them out of the traps, cleaned up, sorted, sacked and ready for your pot are the other vital pieces of the mudbug harvest equation! And...
Actually, Mother Nature and the mudbugs themselves determine the duration of the season! Here at Frugé Aquafarms, we seed mature crawfish into our rice fields over the summer. Those crawfish breed and burrow down deep beneath the ponds to escape the late-summer heat...
By Patrick Bonin As a kid growing up in south Louisiana, getting the chance to play with “crawfish castles” is almost a rite of passage. I can remember the time and energy my brother and I expended in attempting to unearth the hidden mudbugs, usually without any...
By Patrick D. Bonin Crawfish boils have long been a part of Memorial Day Weekend celebrations in south Louisiana. Before we know it, Memorial Day will be here: school days will be done, vacation time will be near and the official kickoff of summer is a great time to...
