The Seaweed Forager

Seaweed Foraging Workshop

Join Rebecca, Nutritionist and nature lover for a wander along the seashore to learn about wild, local seaweeds. Focusing on delicious and nutritious edible seaweeds commonly found in this area.

New Zealand’s rocky coastline has abundant sea life, including delicious edible seaweeds. Most of us don’t even realise that the seaweeds we find on our beaches are edible, nutritious, and delicious.

Rebecca’s book encourages us to take a little bite from the bountiful food sources that are found in seawater rockpools. The book describes a range of edible seaweeds that are easily found on most beaches. It includes description of where each seaweed will be found, how to collect it, and how to use it.

Seaweed is a super food with unequalled amounts of nutrients

Seaweed is a vegan superfood with very few calories. It is high in a range of nutrients and contains many concentrated and bioavailable minerals, trace elements, vitamins, enzymes, antioxidants and omega-3 and -6 fatty acids while offering a complete protein that is fat free and relatively easy to digest.

Seaweed packs a punch. It produces more than half of the world’s oxygen and removes millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. It’s also incredibly nutritious and easily cultivated, with seaweed farming making up nearly a third of all marine aquaculture. Listen to Rebecca speaking with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on their podcast about the benefits of Seaweed.

Seaweed Colours

Greens

Green seaweed varieties grow in shallower waters

Browns

Brown seaweed varieties grow in the middle depths

Reds

Red seaweed varieties can live in deeper waters

The book “The Seaweed Forager” is for anyone who has been overcome by wonder as they stared into a seaside rock pool

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