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Feb 27 2009

Gathering seaweed for food and a home spa

Published by rachel under Wild foods

Harvesting seaweed at low tide

Since we live on the beach, we’ve long eyed up the swaying fronds of bladderwrack, kelp and dulse seaweed — both as free wild food, and as a cheap home spa treatment. Today we and our cats braved the miserable weather to harvest some seaweed because it’s the spring low tide, meaning that the tide is out further than at almost any other time of the year — perfect for gathering fresh seaweed…. Read the rest of this article >>

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