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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Irish Harvest Method for a Hard-to-Catch Local Shellfish

Elspeth Hay

    

Until about a decade ago, there weren't many local shellfishermen bringing razor clams to market. They're hard to harvest with a rake—the shells are paper-thin and break easily, and they're fast—they can easily out-dig a clammer's hand. But then a method called salting came over from Ireland. On this week's Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay learns about salting and the razor clam market from Ron Brunelle of Eastham.

Find out more about salting for razor clams, and get Elspeth's recipes, on the blog Diary of a Locavore.

Here's a very cool video of salting for razor clams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1N_8ysqBpvo#!

Elspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.