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Posted inFood Issue 2026

A Beginner’s Guide to Bay Clamming

Where to go, what to bring, and how to dig up these local delicacies.

It’s midsummer on the Oregon coast. Families gather for beach picnics under brilliant clear skies. Children build sand castles, dogs chase tennis balls. Brown pelicans flap purposefully above a deep blue horizon to the steady, hypnotic thrum of surf.  You notice none of this. Instead, you are prone on a sand bar, elbow-deep in a […]

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