SBC January 9th – The Cascadia Seaweed story

Happy New Year SBC members! I hope that you had a great holiday season and are ready to get going again. 🙂

This new decades inaugural meeting on January 9th will feature the good folks from Cascadia Seaweed. This is such a great start-up story featuring many local personalities & talent. From their website, please view this corporate summary:

The coast of Vancouver Island offers access to the most pristine waters in North America. Cascadia Seaweed chooses its sites with the utmost respect to the environment and the peoples that have been on the land and water before us. One such site it in Useless Inlet. This is the future home to a seaweed farm in partnership with Nuu-chah-nulth Seafoods LP. 

The process of commercially farming seaweed involves attaching seedlings onto a rope that is strung between two vertical lines drawn taught by an anchor and a float. The rope is deployed into open ocean where the seaweed grows until it attains a size ready for harvest. The seaweed laden rope is brought onto a boat where the plant is cut from the rope, delivered to shore, processed and sold into the domestic or international market. 

As always, the meeting is held at 7am on the 2nd Thursday of every month at the Victoria Flying Club Dakota Café. Please join us on Thursday / January 9th / 7am and RSVP  john@harbourdigitalmedia.com if you plan on attending.