{"id":22126,"date":"2022-09-21T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22126"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:55:13","slug":"farmer-in-the-swells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/farmer-in-the-swells\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer in the Swells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&amp;d=final_oct22_flipbook_-_reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>When the world is your and your farm\u2019s in the tide<\/h2>\n<p><b>By Luca Antolini<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">h, so you lobster?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had a nickel for every time I heard this question, I probably wouldn\u2019t have to work on an oyster farm at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of lobstering and oystering as cousins: lobstering is fishing, oystering is aquaculture. I find the word \u201caquaculture\u201d pretentious and somewhat unfitting for the work I do, but despite the countless hours I spend cleaning the tens of thousands of oysters of their own excrement, oystering is, undeniably, aquaculture. While you can dig for oysters (think clams), the mollusks on that platter of a dozen oysters you ordered with artisanal sauces and lemon slices on the side were almost certainly grown by someone since the time they were the size of the fingernail on your pinkie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FarmerintheSwells2-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the world is your and your farm\u2019s in the tide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1207],"class_list":["post-22126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22130,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions\/22130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}