August 15
Aye mates’,
Hope ye all are havin a great summer. To best gets in the mood
for the upcoming Sea Chantey Buffet (Saturday, September 4th) I went to sea for two weeks on a commercial scallop
boat under charter to Coonamessett Farm Foundation to catch sea turtles. We caught seven loggerheads, using a high speed
zodiac and a dip net, and brought them onboard the scallop vessel in preparation for the upcoming Sea Chantey Buffet menu.
However, regulations being what they are, we put satellite tags on them and released them alive and well back into the sea.
I know I must have gotten a few of you salivating at the thought of turtle soup, but alas, you will have to be satisfied knowing
these loggerheads are swimming freely transmitting their positions, dive depth, and water temperature via satellite to the
Internet. The research has been very successful and maybe we will present the results as a part of our Summer Speaker Series
on Friday, August 27th. In the meanwhile, we got some tasty fast growing oysters in Buzzards Bay to take their place at our
Sea Chantey & Falmouth Oyster Fest dinner table.
Speaking of the Sea Chantey event, tickets are now available for
purchase at the farm store. This will be the premier event of the Falmouth
social season featuring The Rum-Soaked Crooks. Tickets will be $30 per person which will include tax and gratuity as well
as coupons for two fresh shucked oysters; additional oysters will be available at $1 each. Children ages 5 to 11 will be $20
each but be aware the sea chanteys will be unabridged. The menu will be 18th century (but no turtle dishes) and
we expect attendees to dress for the occasion. If you emailed a reservation for the event you have until September 1st
to purchase your reserved tickets at the store; after that they will be sold on a first come basis. I have about 100+ reservations
so about 100 tickets are still not reserved. We will no longer accept reservations so if you have not reserved a ticket via
email you need to come in and buy the tickets asap. Ticket prices may go up after September 1st.
The buffet season is going fast; there are only three more vegetarian
Buffets & Pulled Pork BBQs left on Friday evenings and three more Wednesday evening Jamaican Grills. We should have good
crop production until frost if we have no hurricanes or asteroid hits. The turkeys are growing well and there will be about
15 for sale for Thanksgiving. We will probably have an auction to allocate the turkeys to members interested in these blueberry
stuffed birds. I hear leftover turkey makes good mock turtle soup.
Farmer Ron
