Seaweed 101 - Seaweed Harvesting Adventures in the Puget Sound

Learn to Forage from the Sea with Jennifer Adler

Watch highlights from last summer’s Seaweed 101 workshop. Harvest seaweed from a kayak and learn how to add nutrient-rich seaweed to your diet everyday.

Sign up to join this summer’s 3-day Seaweed 101 workshop on Lopez Island.

Will paddle for food…

This summer, trade your gardening shovel for a kayak paddle and harvest your greens from the Pacific Ocean. More nutrient rich than kale or chard, seaweed is the miracle lettuce of the sea and contains almost all of the minerals found in the ocean. The same minerals, in the same proportions, that are found in our blood.

In Seaweed 101  we travel to beautiful Lopez Island to hike, kayak and learn the ecology and uses of seaweed and sea vegetables.  In addition to harvesting, drying and pickling enough seaweed to last your family the entire year, we’ll incorporate sea vegetables into all of our meals.

You’ll leave with an expanded palette, some delicious new recipes and an oceanic knowledge of seaweed history, nutrition and identification. Plus, harvesting from a kayak beats digging in the dirt any day!

What you’ll learn while coastal foraging

• Eat, Love, Seaweed: How to bring sea veggies into your diet, everyday.
• Seaweed Science: Identify different seaweed species and learn their role in each tidal zone. (Seaweed identification cards are provided for each student.)
• Holdfast Etiquette: How to harvest seaweed safely and ecologically.
• Culinary Favorites: Make your own Miso and more.
• Take Your Vitamins: Boost your immune system and overall health with this miracle plant.
• Play with Your Food: Have fun gathering and eating these ancient plants.
• I Spy Seaweed: How to identify the different seaweed species that you harvest and buy at the market.
• Get Carried Away: Experience what it feels like to sit in an ancient kelp bed.
• Got Kelp? Each participant goes home with a Got Kelp T-shirt and a laminated seaweed I.D. card for future use

Details…

Where: Lopez Island

Accommodations: Spencer Spit State Park. We camp in a beautifully wooded campsite with an Adirondack shelter and bunk beds available as well. B&B/hotel accommodations are also available, but not included in the price.

Food: Whole foods breakfasts & dinners provided.

Dates: The three-day Seaweed 101 course is offered on three different weekends:

• Session 1, July 15-17
• Session 2, July 29-31
• Session 3, August 12-14

Cost: $450 per person Please register early, each course is limited to 16 participants.

Register: Sign up here. Contact Jennifer with any additional questions.  Tel. (206) 595-0376 or Email jennifer@passionatenutrition.com.
*No hiking, camping or kayaking experience necessary.