Oyster Blog

... accidentally! We've had a few daylight low tides so far this year, and once the sunlight hits the flats the algae starts growing like crazy on our clam nets. Seaweed is algae. And, just in case you might need...

Sea Plane dwarfs the oyster barge! This morning pilot Chuck and his trusty steed "Maggie" (the Kenmore Air / Evening Magazine sea plane) landed on the oyster farm... successfully dodging buoys, tumble bags, and our barge. It was quite exciting....

Hi everyone! Big news: Our 2013 Oyster Rama is set for Saturday April 27th. We've created a Rama page, which you should see as an option up top. Check the page for photos of Ramas past and info about the...

photos by Paul Harper

Kimberly Schlapman loves ersters! She and her band Little Big Town (which just yesterday was nominated for a Grammy!) are touring in the PNW and today Kimberly visited our farm to film an episode for her GAC cooking show Simply...

Will we find the pot of gold in our shell pile, the beach, or the picnic area???

Gray whales came to play in Hood Canal! These pictures were taken by Connie Gallant up near Taylor Shellfish's research lab in Dabob Bay. For more information check out the Orca Network. Big thanks to Bruce for the heads up....

The tide bubbling down for the afternoon. Given the recent beautiful full moon, and the eclipse, and the calm, still days we've been experiencing here on the farm, we've been thinking a lot about the tides. Of course, we always...

... the moon came out:

Longtime cluster shucker and now Hama Hama delivery guy Juan refuses to smile in photos. For a very happy guy, he takes a very serious photo. Here is he at Elliot's Oyster Frenzy, with Adam Gehrke, a local TV traffic...