I sold seaweed last weekend at the NOFA summer conference. I attended a few workshops on natural beekeeping and apitherapy (healing with bee products). Sally Fallon Morell was a key note speaker. The focus of her talk was salt. In case you don’t know Sally, she’s written a well known whole foods cook book [...]
Our last harvest for this set of tides was Monday. My friend Maria showed up on Sunday afternoon- fresh from a permaculture course she took in Southern Maine. Lovely gal she is, I put her right to work packaging seaweed, and she taught me a beautiful song while we worked. “I’ve got this everlasting light/ [...]
Casey and I have been talking about what it means to be kinesthetic and visual learners. I have been learning this trade for more or less three years, this being my fourth summer on the water. At the beginning of the season I will usually make a mental list of some of the information I [...]
Monday we will harvest. Larch had a crew of boys for the bulk of the harvest season mid May to the end of June. Now the ladies step in. My friend Casey arrived yesterday; she is getting body work from Larch downstairs. Monday we will paddle out like ducklings in the fog. Our external compass [...]
In a few weeks I will be in Maine harvesting sea veggies and packaging up lots of kelp, nori, kombu, wakame and dulse just for you all. You will find me this summer at the NOFA Summer Conference at UMass Amherst, you will find me in Manhattan at South Street Seaport and most likely at [...]
I am spending my Spring gardening a bit, visiting farmers markets and vending seaweed at others, working as busy as a bee at the charter school, singing with Amandla Chorus and jogging around town getting a sense of the changing landscape- lots of annuals and perennials going in, beautifying the landscape that we so radically [...]
The dinner in Manhattan was great. My eyes were wide watching the fish monger gut and fillet a shad… There are lots of bones in the shad and a special technique to fillet around them… I can’t say I was as successful avoiding the bones of my sardine! Can’t wait to try the Shad row sometime!
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Next weekend I will be attending a dinner in Brooklyn, NY- the dinner has the title Fish Tails and Tall Tales, hosted by NY Communal Table. There I will talk about my experience harvesting and answer questions. Other fishermen and fish mongers will talk about their trades. Working with seaweeds has really enriched my [...]
I’m visiting my friend Liina in San Francisco this week. Meanwhile an article about my business emerged through the publication Tasting Table- Follow the link. Usually I receive 1-3 email per week relating to She Sells Seaweed. The emails and orders are streaming in. I like the action! I don’t mind delaying my now routine walk through Golden Gate Park [...]
Great way to start the New Year: selling seaweed to a healthy handful of the 700 plus farmers that attended the NOFA Massachusetts Winter Conference. You could call me a “farmer of the sea” as one fellow did yesterday except that I simply gather a natural resource, and gladly share it. I work on the [...]