Oyster Blog
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Today was a fantastic day for a barge ride. When it's calm, you can really notice how clear the water is. The lack of algae makes Hood Canal a relatively lean place to grow shellfish... but that's o.k. because growing...
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So Adam and Oyster Fan took a trip last week to St Paul to attend the first ever Meritage Oyster Fest. We left a little early and stayed a little late, because it turned out that we had lots of...
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We've had a few days of heavy rain so far this fall, and the streams are just barely navigable for these hardworking fish. Check out our facebook page for a video.
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It's not a tumor, it's an ingrown pearl. The 2009 ugliest pearl contest ended in a draw: But we had a clear winner in 2010:
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A few members of team Hama Hama traveled east last week to attend a wedding, eat lots of lobster, and generally enjoy life on the Maine coast. Naturally, any visit to any coastline would be incomplete without checking out the...
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The Big Hump fire, which is burning to the north of us up the Duckabush drainage, has grown from 50 to 400 acres in the past week or so. Today the sky is so full of smoke we can't see...
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From blog reader Jeff Holt, who, like us, nicknames his vehicles and loves seafood & big dogs. He stopped by the store in July while roadtripping with his Westy "Bandit" and dog Indy. Hi, Last weekend while driving my project...
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Going to work with your dad is fun... provided you can swim all morning.
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We're hitting new milestones in our oyster husbandry abilities. This spring, we set up a Floating Upwelling System, which people in the industry call a Flupsy, as well as a downwelling system, which no one but us calls Dupsy. The...
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Diana, Office Manager Extraordinaire, took this shot from her porch in Triton Cove, which is just a few miles north of our farm on Hwy 101. A few minutes after this picture was taken the spat had dissipated and was...
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The other day we ran across a cast of hermit crabs living in periwinkle shells. (According to this page, "cast" is the correct term for a gathering of crabs. Now we know.) This appeared to be a pretty big cast,...
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Wednesday we shared an oyster lunch with Billy Marinelli, a Long Island Marine Scientist turned shellfish mogul turned Bangkok restaurateur and all around oyster expert. Billy is touring West Coast oyster farms with his wife and Rosie, a Bangkok chef....