On a sunny and warm January day, I spent some time in Mimi Boseman's back yard in Virginia Beach.

Mimi lives on the water and believes that means being a good steward of our waterways.

Years ago, Boseman decided to get into oyster gardening. She's now one of about 300 people in Hampton Roads dedicated to growing the oyster population and helping to improve the water quality of the Lynnhaven River and Chesapeake Bay.

Tied to Mimi's dock is a small float with about a thousand baby oysters inside in a large plastic envelope.

Every couple months, Mimi opens the envelope and checks inside for predators that could destroy the tiny oysters.

She also hoses the algae off of the oysters before she puts them back into the envelope and lowers the float back into the water.

If it all sounds so simple, it is.

In about a year, Mimi's oysters will be big enough to be added to the reefs in the Lynnhaven River.

Her one-thousand baby oysters will produce trillion oysters in the first year, and each will be able to filter 60-gallons of water a day.

With 150-thousand people moving to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay each year, the challenges of keeping the water clean are significant.

There are a lot of ways we all can work to save the envoirnment and be good stewards of the water.

Perhaps the hardest part is realizing how easy it can be.