Oyster Blog
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Our oysters come in all different sizes, and yesterday both ends of the spectrum came across the packing table. Teresa documented it with her camera phone. A perfectly small yearling: And here is an oyster we would call a medium, simply...
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From this lovely blog: Four kinds: hama hama (Hood Canal, Washington), kumamoto (Humboldt Bay, Cailfornia), island creek (Duxbury, Massachusetts), wellfleet (Cape Cod, Massachusetts). All amazing but the hama hama was my favorite. I was super duper excited about this one....
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Here we have the inspiration for the movie tremors. Teredo clams are worm-shaped clams that use shell-shaped jaws to chew through wood. Because these clams do look an awful lot like worms, and perhaps because the idea of a wood eating clam is...
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Wednesday the weather was perfect. It was the kind of day that made you wish someone would pay you to tool around on a boat. And that's what happened here on the oyster farm during our first official beach cleanup:...
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We were worried sick we wouldn't be able to get a good photograph of an inquisitive seal. And we didn't. But here's what the seal probably looked like:
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Some of these are out of focus. Amateurs. A sunflower star. Clearly he wasn't dried on purpose, otherwise we would have done a better job. Big guy. Trust us on this one: it takes a long, long time to dry the stink...
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The PCSGA set up a pretty impressive (and absolutely free) photo booth at this year's Oysterfest. See more photos of the happy campers.
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Last Friday, 7 am Yesterday, 9 am, with the barge in the distance.
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Indian summer weather is here, and we love it. This weekend we'll be celebrating fall with some DIY food prep: picking wild chanterelles, pressing apple cider, and eating everything out of the garden before the caterpillars do. The hub-bub of summer...
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Oysters are hardcore about sticking together. When clusters come in off the beach we try to break them apart into singles, but it's generally impossible to do so without damaging the oysters. Now scientists at Purdue University have figured out exactly why...
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A couple of weeks ago we put the beginning touches on our very first tumble farm. The tumble farm is an energy-friendly oyster pruning device. We spend our days working around the tide,...
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