Oyster Blog
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This year as part of our holiday newsletter we put together a gift-buying guide for oyster lovers. One of the items we included in the guide was a very unique oyster knife from Georgia, and that got us wondering what other handmade oyster knives might be...
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We've put crab on sale in the store, and crab cakes. And, just for the fun of it: some really good Italian red table wine is also on sale. Not that there's anybody out on the roads. It's about 20...
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We weren't dreaming of a white Thanksgiving, but it looks like we might get one!
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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...