Oyster Blog
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Barnacles with a sense of humor took it upon themselves to decorate someone's lost pair of pliers to look like a sea monster: And while on a beach walk today we discovered a particularly disgusting, previously unknown (to us), and...
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For the past several years oyster farmers in France have seen their oyster beds decimated by a new, more virulent strain of oyster herpes. The virus stays dormant until water temperatures get above 61 degrees Fahrenheit and then attacks oysters...
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Whose idea was it to designate August 5th National Oyster Day? Is there an Australian prankster embedded in the Bureau of Obscure Food Holidays who's sabotaging our ability to truly celebrate our nation's most valuable bivalve? If you haven't already...
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It was a gorgeous sunny and clear day, not too hot, and the tide was low at 1 pm. The Brothers. Looking south down the canal. Judith, Sarah, Raquel, and Dave spent the day breaking apart bags of last year's...
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River project, the wide view. Ron Gold Forestry is assembling the log jam, and they are working super fast in order to complete the project before the salmon start running in mid-August. This morning they piled all the ecology blocks...
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It really pays to do business with girl scouts. We love cookies. Last week a group of girls from Camp Robbinswold came down to tour the oyster farm and exclaim over the geoduck. This week we received the thank you...
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Well, it's that time of year again. Summertime. And the oysters are doing what they do: getting spawny. And you can no longer eat them raw because of naturally-occurring salt water bacteria. We've all been here before. If you look...
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Last week we received a certified letter from the Highway Department telling us that our tree cookie sign is illegal. Even though it's located on the same property as our store, it's too far from the store to satisfy the...
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Gary (see earlier post) also shared these two photos of our own oyster shucking operation in the 1960s... back then we had a conveyor belt to move oyster shell around. Now we use a forklift and dumptruck, and our shell...
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Our neighbor and fellow oyster farmer Gary M. heard about our oyster shack documentation project and stopped by the other day with a collection of old photos to share. The oyster shack pictured below stands at the mouth of the...
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Our tour of Hood Canal oyster shacks continues with a stop in downtown Lilliwaup. According to John, who grew up in Lilliwaup proper and now shucks oysters for Hama Hama, when this shed was in use back in the 50s...
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Saturday we trucked ourselves and a bunch of shellfish over to the first Saturday Bellevue Farmers Market of 2010. It was a beautiful and fun day at the market, and the smoked and pickled oysters went over like a helium...