Oyster Blog

2011 started on the rocky side, when we accidentally deleted all blog posts back to April Fool's Day 2007, but we quickly recovered and ended up having a fantastic year, minus the truck theft. We bought a new truck, built...

The tide bubbling down for the afternoon. Given the recent beautiful full moon, and the eclipse, and the calm, still days we've been experiencing here on the farm, we've been thinking a lot about the tides. Of course, we always...

... the moon came out:

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!