The day begins with a low-tide seaweed walk at MacKerricher State Park with Josie Iselin, Larry Knowles, and Julie Drucker.
Josie Iselin is a visual artist, writer, and designer, author of The Curious World of Seaweed, and is the co-director of a collaborative known as Above/Below, working to bring the recognition afforded the forests on land to the kelp forests below the ocean’s surface. Larry Knowles is a Fort Bragg resident, long-time commercial seaweed harvester, and proprietor of Rosing Tide Sea Vegetables. Julie Drucker is the founder of Yemaya Seaweed Company, specializing in wild, hand-harvested seaweed on the Mendocino Coast. Our artist-educators will share their knowledge and experience in seaweed gathering, giving us an in-depth understanding of the delicate intertidal ecosystem.
Following the morning tide pool program (and lunch on your own in town or down at the harbor), we will gather at the Noyo Center Marine Field Station with our guest leaders to learn about pressing seaweed for cyanotypes or as herbarium pressings and a presentation about the food and health components of seaweed.
