Oyster Blog

Native blue mussels are smaller than their Mediterranean counterparts, but just as tasty. They're flash mob mussels: some years there are hardly any on the beach, then the next year they're everywhere. Occasionally, just for fun, they aren't blue at...

We love the picture Alabastro Photography took of our Blue Pools on display at Seattle's Beaujolais Nouveau Festival. See more photos of the event here.

Longtime cluster shucker and now Hama Hama delivery guy Juan refuses to smile in photos. For a very happy guy, he takes a very serious photo. Here is he at Elliot's Oyster Frenzy, with Adam Gehrke, a local TV traffic...

Last week Hama Hama got re-energized by a visit from Brother Tom, who has been studying forestry in  Mongolia and is pretty much an awesome human being. Despite his surprising affinity for sundried horse yogurt, Tom can't quite stomach the...

We're getting a little artsy around here, and have been trying our hands at creating Santa Claus ornaments out of oyster shells. Above is an awesome and slightly frightening Santa that Helena created a couple of years ago. Excuse the...

On Halloween the Culinary Institute of America stopped by for some delicious treats, and one unexpected trick. The school visits almost every year while on a culinary tour of the West Coast. They first meet up with wild salmon activist...

Here's a pumpkin sized oyster for you. Happy Halloween!

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...

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...

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.