How Scotland’s seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy

Thanks to a trip organised @wwf_uk and @guardian, I was able to spend a few days in a stunning sunny Isle of Skye and Oban exploring the seaweed farming.
Seaweed harvesting isn’t a new product in the west of Scotland but @kelpcrofters is different: this is cultivated seaweed farming. The kelp-seeded lines are “planted” in the autumn, left to germinate through the winter, and harvested, in May and June.
Seaweed has everything, it needs no fertilisers, pesticide or land required. The farmers just leave it to grow and while it’s growing it’s also providing a habitat for fish and it’s cleaning the water of harmful heavy metals.

Farmed kelp could produce plastic substitutes, beauty products and food supplements and they can also create ink. Watch this space, as WWF and @artwisecurators have recruitedgreat artists like @talbot.emma and Harland Miller to produce work linked to the seaweed industry for a project called Art For Your Oceans.

Lots to learn about. Please read the full article on today’s guardian. Words written by the amazing @joannamoorhead thanks also to @ecocascade and Oceanium for the help and precious work they are doing.