Eat More Kelp

To provide healthy, environmentally conscious food to schools, institutions, and local restaurants.

Our Mission

High in Vitamin A & Vitamin K

Kelp can aid in digestion and help treat gastrointestinal ulcers. Its soluble fiber can help remove cholesterol from the body.

Rich in Iodine, Folate, Calcium, Magnesium, & Zinc

Kelp has antioxidants including carotenoids & flavonoids. These may increase cardiovascular health and prevent cancer.

Kelp For The Planet

Carbon

Kelp acts as a carbon sink capturing carbon through photosynthesis. This process is known to mitigate climate change. Kelp is known to be able to absorb more carbon than land forests.
Nitrogen

As farmed kelp grows at its rapid rate from November to April(ocean temperature dependent) a large part of this sea veggie’s diet is nitrogen. In coastal regions the high levels of nitrogen in the water comes from runoff.
Habitat

Natural Kelp forests provide food, shelter and protection for about 30 different marine animals to include fish, sea otters, seals and invertebrates. Large quantities of wild kelp harvesting could threaten kelp forest growth, making farming a viable and essential way to clean the oceans and harvest for food consumption and various other uses.

How it all works

Scroll through to see the kelp life process from seed to food!
Kelp Seed

Kelp seed is grown in a hatchery. Wild sorus tissue is harvested from the ocean and brought to the hatchery. thousands of spores are released, which attach to a string that has been wound tightly around a spool. When the seed progresses to what you see pictured here, it is ready to be deployed to the farm.
Out Planting

Kelp seed is carefully transferred to the sea farm where moorings and long lines are in place. the seeded kelp string is unwound onto the long lines. throughout the winter, farms are monitored closely for possible damage and entanglements.
Harvest

Long lines full of kelp(hopefully) are raised over the boat using a davit and winch. kelp is cut off the line and falls into large bags. Kelp is sold for many different purposes. Depending on where the kelp is going, certain HAACP plans are in place for proper harvesting. almost all of the kelp grown by our farmers goes to be consumed as food. a small portion goes to local farms to be used as fertilizer.
Processing

Our farmers have harvested about 100,000 lbs of kelp.
Now that do we do with it?
The kelp needs to be stabilized. The two best ways to stabilize kelp for food processing is blanching then freezing and drying. The kelp then gets turned into our wonderful products. Sea Veggie Kelp Meat and spicy Kelp Relish.