Most of us consider seaweed as slimy and smelly – one thing to throw at your pals on the seaside for fun. However Swansea-based and women-led firm – Excessive Tide Seaweed – need you to suppose otherwise.
By 2050, it’s estimated that we’re going to want 70% extra meals to feed our ever rising inhabitants. Due to this fact, we have to look towards extra sustainable meals choices than our present industrialised meals system – that may be a large contributor to the local weather disaster. While there isn’t any silver bullet resolution, seaweed may present some solutions…
Seaweed is sustainably farmed on a small-scale right here in Wales at Câr-Y-Môr ocean farm: taking over carbon because it grows, offering a house for marine life, requiring no freshwater, land house or fertiliser to develop, and rising sooner than any land plant. Seaweed can also be tremendous nutritious, internet hosting a wealth of micronutrients wanted for a wholesome physique, and a formidable amino acid profile.
Beth, a nutritionist and Flo, a marine ecologist, have taken the scrumptious seaweed of Câr-Y-Môr to create a nutritious sustainable snack bar – Excessive Tide Seaweed – earnings of which can return into seaweed farming and marine restoration. Excessive Tide isn’t just one other snack bar. It’s taking motion to guard and sustainably handle our ecosystems, resulting in a extra biodiverse future.
Excessive Tide is at the moment in improvement, nonetheless you may pre-order bars right here https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/high-tide-seaweed, and bars shall be out there in retailers, cafes and climbing centres throughout South Wales quickly, in addition to on-line.
Comply with Beth and Flo @high_tide_seaweed for updates.
