6/18/26

i've been busy for the last month and a half or so working on getting the farm fully built back out. this means all of the gear i own is back in the water, and the crop from the previous two years is spread out as evenly as can be into all that gear to give it as much room as possible to grow into. a couple weeks ago i received my first installment of new oyster seed for the year (the rest should hopefully be coming to me to join the gang here soon), and they seem to be happy and thriving in their nursery boxes on the farm! they'll likely be due for their first round of grading by the end of next week, and many of them will graduate from their fine mesh boxes out into grow out bags.

for the bigger oysters, it's been a little bit of a slow start to the season out here in terms of

growth, perhaps due to the cold icy winter and relatively cooler spring we've had here in the northeast. it feels like just this past week i finally started to really see a lot of new shell growth on the oysters, which is definitely a little later than usual. if you can't tell from reading my updates, i very much measure the passing of time during my growing season by the milestones - farm raising, first growth, seeding days, and farm sinking - the rest is a blur of sweat and farm work and harvesting in between, so when the milestones feel like they land a little differently from year to year, i take notice. but i'm also not too worried about it, the oysters have never failed to overwhelm me with their growth rates by july so i'm confident they'll catch up with me!