Oyster Blog

  • July 7, 2009: Celebrating Hoodsport

    Last Saturday we spent almost all day hawking seafood in downtown Hoodsport as part of the town's annual Fourth of July festival. We sold bacon-wrapped oysters, barbecued oysters, shrimp cocktails, and steamed clams. It was social and small-town and fun....

  • June 30, 2009: as big as a horse

    During last week's geoduck dig Nathan found this horse mussel sticking straight up out of the sand. There are a lot of horse mussels on the beach, but because they live out deep you only see them on really low...

  • June 25, 2009: Geoduck Dig

    We've had a string of really low tides this week, and so we sent the three graybeards out to dig geoduck and play in the mud. The old fashioned way to dig geoduck is to use a shovel and a...

  • June 23, 2009: Mushroom Man, part 2

    sorry for the string of corny posts... we'll get serious soon. But we can't resist sharing this photo. Helena took it on a walk last fall, a season when the woods on the Olympic Peninsula are golden, fragrant, and full...

  • June 18, 2009: Sea Sparkle

    A red algal bloom started last week near Hoodsport, and slowly worked its way north. Today it hit the beaches at Hama Hama. Ever since the bloom started we've been getting calls from people concerned about red tide. The water...

  • June 16, 2009: Mushroom Man

    Today our friend Preston stopped by with some wild morel and porcini mushrooms he'd recently picked somewhere east of the Cascade Mountains. Preston-- who probably knows all of the Olympic Peninsula's sweet spots for both wild mushrooms and good surf-- ...

  • June 15, 2009: Ocean Acidification

    Check out this Seattle Times article about low ocean pH and the oyster industry in Willapa Bay. The video that accompanies the article is pretty good, especially the very last bit, where an 8 year old oysterman steals the spotlight.

  • June 11, 2009: Deformed Dungeness

  • June 3, 2009: The CIA visits Hama Hama

    Yesterday about 40 students from the Culinary Institute of America stopped by the farm to learn about sustainable seafood. They were at the tail end of a month long tour around Washington and Oregon, where they toured various produce farms,...

  • May 29, 2009: Any Publicity = Good Publicity (?)

    First of all: people who know that they don't like oysters shouldn't be surprised that when they eat an oyster, they don't like it. Second of all: oysters wrapped in bacon don't taste like bacon, they taste like oysters wrapped...

  • May 26, 2009: Geoduck Season

    People always come into the retail store asking for geoduck, and we always disappoint. But not this weekend: today Dave and Jim spent a few hours out on the nether reaches of the tideflats, digging geoduck. We have 25 or...

  • May 24, 2009: Oyster Shell Wedding Favors

    Several years ago Cait and John stopped by our farm and collected oyster shells, saying they were going to use them in their wedding at the nearby Alderbrook Resort. At the time we didn't think anything of it, but now...