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Sustainably Harvested Sonoma Coast

Seaweeds

Make this nutrient dense food a part of your daily nutrition

  • Plant based protein

  • Raw food

  • Local and Regenerative

 

We harvest the seaweed by hand in the summer months along the Sonoma coast, and dry it for your year-round enjoyment. Deliciously edible seaweed varieties flourish in the chilly, nutrient rich waters of the rough-and-ragged Sonoma coastline. Collecting occurs early in the mornings on June and July low tides.  The collected algae are rinsed and dried on screens in the sun.  Strong Arm Farm triple-rinses the seaweed we collect for your sand-free eating enjoyment.

 

                   Learn more about wildcrafted seaweed on the seaweed fact sheet.

Seaweed Varieties

Types of Seaweed

Kombu
(Laminaria setchelii)

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Best in soups of all kinds (miso, chicken, chili, curry, Japanese dashi stock, etc.) The silky algin/alginates of this seaweed act as a thickening agent and help break down fibers in beans (aka gas reduction.)  Kombu has the highest content of naturally occurring glutamates, which imbue a satisfying umami taste and mouth feel.

Nori
(Porphyra/Pyropia)

 

Very mild, thin, iridescent when wet, and particularly high in protein. Can be toasted and crumpled into small flakes and easily added to dishes like a spice. Or massage with oil and flavorings for a kale-chip-esque experience.

Harvested in minor quantity:

 

Bladderwrack
(Fucus)

Particularly rich in Iodine and Iron. Sought after by herbalists.

 

Wakame
(Alaria)

Traditional use in seaweed salads, high in calcium.

 

Sea Palm 

(Postelsia) 

Delicious ribbed ribbons with mild flavor, great raw.

Where to Purchase

    Where to Purchase

I ship!  Whole pounds of:

Kombu, Wakame and Nori $96 (plus shipping, it's light)

1 oz packets for $9/ (18 packet minimum)

Pay with Venmo, Paypal or check

strongarmfarm@gmail.com

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Sonoma/Marin Counties, CA

Find retail packets at these shops:

Enjoy Strong Arm seaweed at these restaurants:

 

Home Delivery to Bay Area

 

San Francisco, CA

Find retail packets at these shops:

Enjoy Strong Arm seaweed at these restaurants:

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East Bay, CA

 

Napa, CA

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Wholesale Delivery to Restaurants and Grocers

  • FEED Sonoma – Marin, Napa, San Francisco            and East Bay regions

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Los Angeles

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Articles in Support of Seaweed

"I lived in Japan for several years and got in the habit of making dashi. When I use your kombu [from the Sonoma Coast] in dashi it just tastes so much deeper than when I get the supposedly 'good stuff' from the Japanese market."  Andy R. 

Eat seaweed to save the world Slow Fish

 

Seaweed Primer: How to use more Nori & Wakame Serious Eats

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Dashi Journey 17 minute documentary

 

In Cocktails

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The Next Superfood

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Seaweed is riding a wave of popularity

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Seaweed for cow methane reduction

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Is Seaweed the Perfect Food Vogue article

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Cascadia Seaweed podcast interview with Dr. Jennifer Clark 42 min

Radiation Concerns?

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Strong Arm Farm has lab-tested the Sonoma Coast seaweed and detected NO radioactive isotopes from Fukushima! Find current information at Kelp Watch.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is also conducting research. Check out their updates.

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Another local seaweed company offers this great page of information.

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