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Sea Lettuce, Ulva
Sea Lettuce, Ulva lactuca Ulva: Sea Soup & Salad Ulva is the greenest seaweed you will ever see from shore, or in the sea for that matter. Ten species, all edible, are found around the world in...
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Sargassum Sea Vegetable
Sargassum nutans Sargassum: Not Just for Breakfast Any More Sargassum — Gulf weed — comprises a huge number of seaweeds in all oceans, both bottom dwelling and free floating. In fact, two common...
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Gracilaria, Graceful Redweed
Gracilaria: The pot thickens People eat a lot of seaweed. They just don’t know it. In the industry it is called covert consumption vs overt consumption. What is covert consumption? Graceful Redweed,...
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Codiums: Edible around the world Oceanographers like to call Codium a minor seaweed because it is not commercially exploitable. Yet where it is found around the world it is eaten. It is also considered...
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Caulerpa
Caulerpa prolifera Caulerpa: Warm-Water Salad and Pest Caulerpa ssp.would seem to be a paradox. Eaten around the world by thousands for thousands of years but called a killer and toxic by modern man....
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Bladderwrack
Bladderwrack in calm waters Fucus vesiculosus: Edible Bladderwrack Bladderwrack can wrack your brain. Why? Because in some places it has bladders and is textbook perfect. And in others places it has...
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Tape Seagrass
Tape Seagrass at low tide Seed Capsule It is said that all seaweed is edible but that’s not true. There’s at least one species that is not, Desmarestia ligulata. Why? Because it is laced with sulfuric...
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Winter Foraging
A frozen cranberry, blueberry’s wet cousin, is still tart and tasty. The thermometer was near zero one day when I was on ice skates collecting frozen cranberries. Bonfires and hot beverage make skating...
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