Great Sunday here at the kelp factory. Larch and I went out and harvest 20 bushels of kelp digitata style. This means that he rowed me around in one of the small boats while I hung over the end and reached down crushing my gut grabbing at kelp. Larch says I’m a pretty good cormorant. [...]

I just spent the past two and a half hours hanging the 16 bushels of alaria. It was great! I listened to public radio and there was this great scientist/author David Suzuki talking about global warming- he said something about how Co2 is acidifying our oceans and that reminded of how Larch has mentioned that- [...]

Woke up from a nap after this morning’s harvest. Larch and I harvested 16 bushels from crevice- It was fun! I like that spot, we will go back there on another harvest- there’s more alaria there and I peeked at the dulse growing between the crevices in the shade. Munched on a bit- nothing like [...]

When I got home on Saturday night Larch filled me in on the June harvest and the crew that was living here. People from Vermont, his son and Daughter, a seaweed customer’s daughter looking for an adventure, a trapeze artist- lots of interesting sounding people! Now I am here and it is quIet and peaceful. [...]

I’m still in Pawtucket visiting my family- decided because of all the rain to stay an extra day and leave early tomorrow. Hope to visit Tinder Hearth (see part 2 of My Story) before heading to Steuben and out on the first harvest of this set of tides Monday morning. I wonder who will be [...]