Our friends over at @cascadiaurc are doing a Kitsap Clamming Event! Meet up at PEX 4/19 at 11am and carpool to the beach.
Join us to harvest Clams and Oysters in the salish sea and cook them together!
Day/Time: 4/19; All day (11a-8p). Carpools loosely coordinated.
Suggested Cost: $25
Be prepared for: navigating rocky beach, working on hands and knees in cold and possibly rainy conditions. Being outside for 6+ hours, sharing in cooking and cleaning tasks, learning lots, and eating fresh seafood.
RSVP https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0F4CACAB2EA6FAC34-56150563-kitsap
Info
This is a nearly all-day event, meeting up at People's Exchange in Bremerton, to get to know each other and have a short discussion about how to practice responsible harvest together. These creatures are not resources or commodities but our kin! After meeting, carpools will be arranged and everyone will drive ~30 minutes to the harvest site.
Harvesting will happen on a state park beach on the so-called Hood Canal. Harvesting will happen whether there's rain, wind, or calm waters. After harvesting, everyone will drive a short way to a picnic shelter to prepare a meal centered around what's been gathered.
Objective
Grow a curlture and tradition of shellfishing within our community based in reverence, 'self' sufficiency, and harvesting as part of right relationship
To accomplish this we will:
Discuss safe and responsible harvesting practices as well as learn about shellfish to learn how we are in ecology with these beings
Make space for conversatoins about ethics of harvesting, tow to practice respect and revotion while harvesting
Work together on the shores to harvest shellfish (dig clams, shuck oysters)
Use a picnic shelter at a local park to prepare a shellfish feast
What to Expect
We will meet at the People's Exchange (PEX) to go through the plan and discuss harvest ethics before splitting into carpools
Harvesting itself will happen on a rocky beach in all weather. Being prepared looks like having durable waterproof shoes, raingear, and warm clothes
Because the purpose of the day is to build a group ethic around harvesting shellfish, our dinner will be entirely based around the food we harvest
Contributions
Equipment
We will not be able to provide all equipment for this big of an outing all by ourselves. In the signup, we're asking if you can bring specific gear or other offerings to share with the group.
Monetary
A one-day license is $11.35. Please expect to contribute $0-15 to CURC to cover shared food costs.
