Yesterday was a treat! I met up with some friends and went on a little adventure. We swam twice- once at a river where I had the best back massage by the rapid and a beautiful chocolate lab joined us! After the first swim we found a place to hike and I learned a number [...]
Good news!
I will be at the local foods festival in RI on August 4th. Here’s a link http://www.farmfreshri.org/about/localfoodfest.php
The chef from Chez Pascal in Providence is going to use a few of my seaweeds in his dishes. It is at a restaurant and inn called Castle Hill in Newport, RI where all of their cooking oil [...]
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. [...]
yet another day of packaging seaweed. Not the most glamorous aspect of the job- nonetheless I get through it listening to alternative radio and lots and lots of CDs and as well as mugs of green tea and mate.
After packaging I decided to continue my cooking with seaweed experiments. It seems that lots of veggies [...]
I drove home last night in the thick of the fog. I thought that was bad, Larch says when he does morning chores on nights like that, he drops the anchor and then wonders which direction to row to get to shore. He depends on the compass to get him back to shore.
This week we [...]
Today was a full day!
woke up 5:15am- harvested alaria. Lost one busel to the surf and eventually harvesgted from the punt trimming around the edges of crevice to end off with a total of 40 bushels of alaria for the week. nice. Larch and I have been very productive!
After sunbathing and reading and snacking and [...]
Well, it’s nearing 2:00 and Larch and I have harvested Kelp, cooked a delicious breakfast, packed up the van with kelp for Shep and hung 31 bushels on the lines. I feel sun kissed and about ready to drive over to Zocolo for a bit- John is excited about the music I got from the [...]
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. [...]