Sep 25, 2012 5:46 PM
A new twist this year to the East Hampton Town Trustees’ Largest Clam Contest, held under an Indian-summer sun outside the Donald Lamb Building in Amagansett, was a setup where attendees could weave eelgrass plugs to be planted in Napeague Harbor to help restore the habitat there.
It was a convivial scene, which weaver-volunteers described as a sewing bee or a quilting bee as they stood chatting over tubs of floating grass and poking wet blades of grass into burlap “tortillas,” as staff from Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Marine Meadows Program described the plugs. Once the eelgrass had been threaded into the burlap discs, they looked a lot like jellyfish with descending tentacles, although a couple of weavers said they looked like party hats.
“You’re rockin’ and rollin’,” John Botos, a program assistant... more
It was a convivial scene, which weaver-volunteers described as a sewing bee or a quilting bee as they stood chatting over tubs of floating grass and poking wet blades of grass into burlap “tortillas,” as staff from Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Marine Meadows Program described the plugs. Once the eelgrass had been threaded into the burlap discs, they looked a lot like jellyfish with descending tentacles, although a couple of weavers said they looked like party hats.
“You’re rockin’ and rollin’,” John Botos, a program assistant... more
