Join us for a knowledge share on the medicine of the sea. We'll learn about the medicinal macroalga commonly known as seaweed- kelp, wakame, dulse, bladderwrack, sea moss/Irish moss, and more. More nutrient-dense than any plant, seaweeds are immensely rich in minerals, gut healing and immune-boosting polysaccharides, trace minerals (especially Iodine, which is protective for the thyroid), and some are even anti-viral. Most species can be sustainably harvested, when done correctly, and they tend to be extremely abundant upon most rocky coasts of the world. Food traditions across the globe from Japan, to Hawaii, to Korea, to the British Isles, and beyond have a rich history of incorporating seaweed into the diet and using them medicinally as well. In this knowledge share we will explore the different groups of seaweeds- Red, Brown, and Green- with a special focus on those abundant in Northeast waters, and discuss medicinal use, harvest, and incorporating them into the kitchen. Recipes will be demoed and handouts will be provided.

Knowledge Share Includes

• Feel comfortable integrating seaweed into your diet

• Learning the medicinal value of seaweeds

• Foraging, drying, storage

• Simple seaweeds to harvest as a beginner

• Resources for purchasing sustainably wildcrafted seaweed in Maine and the west coast

• Demo recipes- Kelp Oxymel, Dulse Gomasio, Irish Moss Gel, Dulse Pesto

• Handouts

Exchange

$35

$75 reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Seaweed

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

Thursday June 17th

2-5pm PST / 5-8pm EST (Eastern time)

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

Jade Alicandro weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can often find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 12 and 8 year-old daughters, tender of chickens and cats and puppy, online educator, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. From 2012-2019 she ran the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, a clinic dedicated to affordable herbal care, and currently maintains a long-distance and local clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She draws on the wisdom and traditions of her Southern Italian and Greek ancestral lineages and makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts in Nipmuk territory.